what matters is getting the nameplate

"It doesn't matter how you get there,
the important thing is that you get the nameplate" 

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opinion from 

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mccarthy-house-speaker-minority-rule-20230108.html:

The ability of a McCarthy-led House to stymie progress for two years against the run of play in American politics would be bad enough, but it’s a lot worse than that. To win that diminished and tarnished speaker’s plaque over his new office door, McCarthy ceded much of his power to the radical bloc of the House’s 20 or so most extreme right-wing members. He gave them not just increased visibility but power to investigate their enemies and block basic governance — and to replace the speaker on a whim. These grifters and C-list stars of their own reality shows, elected from the most extreme pro-Trump, uncompetitive districts in the United States, now wield veto power over the will of the American people.

It is minority rule, exemplified by Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell’s refusing to give the Supreme Court nominee of twice-majority-elected president Barack Obama even a public hearing, that created the High Court that overturned nearly a half-century of reproductive freedom — even though polls show that 62% of Americans support abortion rights.

It is minority rule when the newly minted Speaker McCarthy promised in the Saturday morning darkness that he would fix “woke indoctrination in our schools” — even though a majority of Americans (53%) think it’s appropriate to teach high school students that “systemic racism is embedded in American institutions.”

It is minority rule when McCarthy says his House will pursue fossil-fuel-intensive “America First” energy policies — even though surveys consistently find that two-thirds of Americans believe the exact opposite, that our government is not doing enough to combat climate change (and even as McCarthy’s home state of California is swamped by flooding of Biblical proportions that is exacerbated by global warming).

Ditto for a higher minimum wage, or raising taxes on the wealthy, or free community college, or scores of other policies that are backed by the majority of U.S. voters, yet are going nowhere amid the nihilistic narcissism of the Gaetz-Boebert-McCarthy House. Even worse, Republicans continue to look for ways to increase minority rule through their favorite tool, voter suppression.