House Republicans find the slog of governing is hard, and bores the press
Fox News
Speaker Kevin McCarthy will have to keep House Republicans in his corner, despite a slim majority. Otherwise, governing under a Democrat president won't be a simple task.
When you win the majority, as Kevin McCarthy and the House Republicans just did, you’re expected to produce, and suddenly you have to move beyond rhetoric and put together a governing coalition, which isn’t easy. It doesn’t help when you have a razor-thin majority. Howard Kurtz is the host of FOX News Channel's MediaBuzz (Sundays 11 a.m.-12 p.m. ET). Based in Washington, D.C., he joined the network in July 2013 and regularly appears on Special Report with Bret Baier and other programs.
So now the pressure is on the Republicans to produce. Of course, they’ve only been in charge for six weeks, so an early report card seems rather premature. But the situation underscores McCarthy’s dilemma as he tries to hold his party together.