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A Historic Speaker
Kevin is just latest in a Growing line of Failed Speakers run out by Their own Party
Kevin McCarthy was elected Speaker after a historic 15 votes 100 years in the making and ousted by another historic vote 245 years in the making.
He was forced out of the Speaker’s office by his own party. Just like the four Republican Speakers before him.
They were all forced out for not being conservative enough. And the crime of working with democrats. Kevin passed a CR with democratic support to keep the government running while he negotiated with “conservative” terrorist.
Rebulican Retribution for thier own Faiulure
We’ve been seeing this since Republicans began getting majorities in the House in the 1990s. The entire party has been hijacked in the decades since.
Republicans have been twisting themselves into pretzels to blame democrats for the ouster since last Tuesday’s vote.
“Let me say it again, the House of Representatives is frozen. And it’s frozen because Matt Gaetz was played like a drum by [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)], by Nancy Pelosi and others … with just eight Republicans getting together with 208 Democrats. Every single Democrat in this chamber threw out the…