Yesterday Republicans issued one of their periodic and predictable reminders of why they cannot be trusted to govern.
issued one of their periodic and predictable reminders of why they cannot be trusted to govern by allowing a dunderheaded backbencherfrom Democrats who would've been willing to save his speakership in exchange for substantive concessions and who instead voted unanimously with eight Republican radicals to un-gavel him.
Voters know perfectly well which party wants the government to work and which wants it to starve and die. And in a strange coincidence, every time the Starve the Government Party wins a seat at the budgeting table, something like this happens. It's not a huge mystery even to low-information voters. Yet the refusal to engage in yet another round of standoff-shutdown-capitulation is what ended McCarthy's short tenure as speaker.
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