Despite 17 years in Congress, Jordan has virtually no legislation to his credit. And he’s shown no ability to build bipartisan coalitions, work with adversaries, or accept half-victories.
The speaker's job requires a very particular set of skills — an ability to build bipartisan coalitions, to work with one's adversaries, and to learn to accept half-victories — that would make it a particularly crummy job for Rep. Jim Jordan. | Alex Brandon/APAndrew Taylor is a retired reporter for the Associated Press and Congressional Quarterly. He covered Capitol Hill for three decades.
Yet for all those reasons and quite a few others, he would be badly miscast as speaker of the House, and Republicans should be relieved he has, for now, fallen short of the votes. Jordan on Thursday abandoned a third speaker’s ballot for the moment, instead endorsing a measure to let acting Speaker Patrick McHenry run the House temporarily.
Jordan’s critics worry that he would allow Trump to meddle in House business, an especially worrisome prospect since Trump, as president, drove the government into a lengthy shutdown in 2018-19 only to emerge empty-handed. Previous GOP Speakers like Boehner and Paul Ryan came from the party’s governing wing. Boehner worked with Sen. Ted Kennedy to pass the No Child Left Behind education law in 2002; Ryan negotiated a 2013 budget accord with veteran Sen. Patty Murray and went on to chair the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
A pessimistic take on Jordan is that he’d simply be unwilling to cut compromises with the Senate and the Biden White House, especially as the House slides toward a possible Biden impeachment. A partial government shutdown is in the offing if gridlock hits.
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