Matthews: If GOP Can’t Find a Speaker, ‘You Could Argue Whether They’re a Party or Not’

‘If they can’t find a leader are they a party anymore’

“I also think there's a constitutional question within the Republican Party, lower case C, if it's the party incapable of picking a leader, is it a party, is there something truly unifying about that body of Republican members of Congress that they can't find a leader. If they can't find a leader are they a party anymore. That's a tricky question given the fact we have heard talk today that maybe the Democrats would have to abstain for them to be able to get a majority of the votes. The Democrats shouldn't have to abstain. It should be a vote by the majority. When you say Boehner, you say you're Republican. When you said Tip O’Neill in the old days, you said you were Democrat. That's how you picked your party, how you identified yourself. If they can't agree to a name as a party, you could argue whether they are a party or not. That's a serious question. If they can't pick a leader, it's not some incidental problem they are facing, some hurdle. Are they a party, are they not a party? That’s the question they’ve got to answer between now and the 29th.”

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