"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 
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 @f884fa2b 

I think he will be highly memorable being the First Speaker ousted. AND, ousted By His Own Party!

So, he gets the portrait, the photo of his name on the Speakers door, and a unique place in history. 

I was going to wrap up with a funny comment,  but nothing has come to mind. 

 @a67a96bd Sort of akin to being Caesar memorialized in marble after his ignominious end, isn't it? 

 @f884fa2b 

Yes!

Or,

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings.
Look on my mighty works, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Around the decay
 Of that Colossal Wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away"
                                      Percy Bysshe Shelley 

 @a67a96bd Perfect — Shelley is the perfect gloss here.