Mark Meadows and Kevin McCarthy: Where do Republicans get these worms?

Julian Zelizer : Mark Meadows and Kevin McCarthy are slithering dwellers of the political underground that has swallowed the Republican Party .

Zelizer says they were put into positions of power by a Republican Party and a nominally Republican president to do exactly this and only this: anything and everything they are told to do.

He says Meadows , who served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives , was busy doing stuff in the weeks after Trump lost the election in November .

Julian Zelizer : McCarthy lost control of the House when he signed secret document giving him most of his powers to become Speaker.

He says McCarthy has been in bunker since he grabbed the gavel.

Zelizer says McCarthy 's deal with President Joe Biden was supposed to make it moot.

He asks: What's actually going on in McCarthy 's House is cowardice-generated chaos.

A motion to vacate the chair, if you have trouble remembering this arcane maneuver, is, in effect, a vote to fire the Speaker of the House .

So, who's holding the reins of power on the House side of the Capitol these days ? I'll answer that question with one that is more to the point: Where do Republicans come up with these worms? Look at these two guys. They were put into positions of power by a Republican Party and a nominally Republican president to do exactly this and only this: anything and everything they are told to do.