@81f7a5c6 @126749b9 if prominent republicans want to take the speakership and then humiliate themselves with legislation that can't go anywhere because the republican party is ideologically opposed to making deals with the party that controls the senate and whitehouse, so be it. We'll be back at the government shutdown hostage crisis in some 40ish days when the CR expires but that would have been equally as true with McCarthy as speaker as well.