Oddbean new post about login | logout "We wake up today to a Republican Party in disarray, bitterly divided, at war with itself, and seemingly shocked that nurturing and appeasing its lunatic fringe could end this badly. If only they had been warned." ~ Charlie Sykes #McCarthy #Republicans #CultureWars #ClownShow #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofDestruction /1 https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-fall-of-kevin-mccarthy
"For the first time in the nation’s history, a sitting speaker of the House has been ousted; and Kevin McCarthy now has the historic distinction of having the shortest tenure with the gavel since the guy who died of tuberculosis in 1876. McCarthy, who so desperately wanted that title and the portrait — and who made one surrender after another to get them — will now be remembered merely as an asterisk, if even that." #McCarthy #Republicans #CultureWars #ClownShow #PoliticsofDistraction /2