Gaetz reminds me of what GOP icon Abraham Lincoln once said about General Grant:
“I can't spare this man, he fights!”We need all the fighters we can get.
It’s not really Gaetz at issue. It’s the motion to vacate.
In the eyes of the Swamp, this ties the hands of a Speaker to advance legislation that does not have a majority of his own party. In the view of the Swamp, anything of this sort that threatens the process of “keeping the wheels turning” is a huge threat.
The superior answer is to simply define legislation to get that majority support. If it doesn’t have that, it doesn’t get a vote. Why should that be different? Because in the eyes of the Swamp, that threatens the wheels turning.
It also applies pressure to the Senate they would like not to have. In the past the could rely on the “wheels turning” imperative to force the House to surrender. The motion to vacate rule erases that. There IS no imperative to keep the wheels turning.