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Will the country - primarily the Republican Party - be a bigger train wreck if Kevin McCarthy takes marching orders from Lauren and Marge?

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https://www.businessinsider.com/mccarthy-marjorie-taylor-greene-lauren-boebert-oversight-blitz-speaker-votes-2022-12
Kevin McCarthy's oversight agenda will be 'a recurring skit on SNL' if he makes MAGA cheerleaders Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert investigators: GOP strategists

Passing out plum committee assignments may get House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy the votes he needs to realize his dream of becoming speaker, but some Republicans are worried about it backfiring on the party if the California lawmaker puts loose cannons like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert in charge of his planned oversight blitz.

Jason C. Roe, a former House aide and now GOP strategist, said placing Greene, of Georgia, or Boebert, of Colorado, on the House Oversight Committee in the 118th Congress — something Oversight Committee ranking member James Comer has said is already under discussion — would be "a disaster.

"It might feed the MAGA crowd's political bloodthirst. But it will be a recurring skit on SNL and continue to poison Republicans with independents," Roe told Insider of the likely political blowback of assigning avid conspiracy theorists to work through the laundry list of investigations McCarthy has compiled over the past two years.

A unnamed GOP lawmaker currently assigned to the oversight panel sounded similarly alarmed, telling The Washington Post that "if you want to be taken seriously, you have to treat the issue seriously.

Will the country - primarily the Republican Party - be a bigger train wreck if Kevin McCarthy takes marching orders from Lauren and Marge?
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