What The GOP Needs Is a Few More Like Marjorie Taylor Greene.

If you’re one of those liberals sitting there exulting over the nasty arguments that have been flying around the House GOP caucus over electing the Speaker, you might want to hold your water and not yet rejoice in what you believe will be a political shipwreck when the Congress convenes on January 3rd.

In the olden days, getting elected to Congress was one thing, getting a leadership slot in the House was something else. If your political ambition were just to represent your district, you traded a few votes, got an earmark for some visible project back home, and then made sure that you didn’t face a serious challenge in the next primary or that your district was gerrymandered out of existence the next time a census came along.

On the other hand, if you had some ambitions to move up and maybe use your House seat as a base for a Senate run, getting into a leadership position was an important way to proceed. Being a House leader meant you were designated as Majority Leader or Whip. Or else you occupied the Chair of an important House committee, like Oversight or Ways & Means.

The important point of these leadership positions, particularly when your party held the House majority, was it gave you access to the media, which in the olden days meant newspapers, radio, and TV. My Congressional…