Rep. Patrick McHenry is now the acting Speaker of the House.

  • Zorque@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The government was struggling to move forward with the speaker they had… it sucks that this kind of chaos is occurring, but it’s hardly a new thing. It’s been escalating for years. It’s just this time it bit one of the perpetrators in the ass.

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      1 year ago

      No reason to feel bad for McCarthy. The entire reason he was able to be voted out so easily was because of concessions he had to make with Gaetz and co to get the speakership in the first place.

      Had he compromised and worked with the conservative/centrist Democrats, he wouldn’t be nearly as weak as he ended up being.

      He compromised with a child sex trafficer, and this is what he got.