'Seinfeld shutdown': Analyst explains why House Republicans won’t 'get what they want'



The Bulwark Editor-in-Chief Charlie Sykes, during a Tuesday interview with MSNBC host Joy Reid, insisted that House Republicans will are not going to get anywhere with the potential government shut down expected within the coming days.

"What is this shutdown about?" Sykes said. "The executive vice president of The Chamber of Commerce, a Republican-leaning organization, says he's thinking of this like 'The Seinfeld shutdown,' because it's 'the shutdown about nothing.' There's no end game. They're not going to get what they want. At a certain point, this is, for people like [U.S. Rep.] Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the fight is about the fight. Keeping it going. The more chaos he creates, the better it is for him, no matter how much damage he does to the country. And you're seeing what Kevin McCarthy is willing to do. I mean, Kevin McCarthy is willing — his speakership hangs by a thread from Mar-a-Lago. He knows what Donald Trump can do with him, and he knows that he has to make one concession after another."

He continued, "But it's never enough because the point is not to be a governing party for people like Matt Gaetz. It's to create as much chaos as possible. To exact as much pain. The fact that he's willing to go along with every online extremist in his Caucus, and cut the kinds of programs that you just listed, you have to wonder at what point do the moderates in the Caucus say, 'to hell with this, we're not going to go along with this.' But I don't see how this ends well for Kevin McCarthy, and unfortunately the rest of us are being held hostage as well."

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