the world. it s not one of those positiono you give tgiveo elderly men who have campaigned from the b their basement. if you wantent. to be the guy in ls second in line from the presidency in america, you ve got to work for it. to work and kevin mccarthy ca has worked for it this week.t whatever you think othinf, theyt the feeling mccarthy would crawl naked through a sewer to get this gig. et thi s and that s not necessarily an insult, by the way. it s what it takes, obviously. maybe it s what it should take. so if you take a deep breath and you think about it foringtor a second, nothing we have seen in washington recently the supposedly apocalyptic world ending drama of politicians arguing with each. s none of it qualifies as especially unusual or even bad. this is what democracy lookst up like when you get up close. i want one thing.ote to s you want another thing. we schedule a vote to seecase who gets it, or in this case, eleven votes, but whatever . bu how is
humiliation for kevin mccarthy,t who took the knee for donaldhe e trump, then gave away the store to the coocoo fringe of his party. you couldn t construct a narrative that combines the elements of extremism, ism,a election denialism and incompetence. ndcompeten more perfectly that twelve hours. y then on the republican side in the house. it s embarrassing. i do. and there is now there s a lotfn of hard feelings on both sides.. again, you have 90% of the caucus, 90% of the caucus standing firmly behind kevin mccarthy. they look ketti mean they re. putting on a show, i ll call it political ploy. he s decided instead to pull the pin on the grenade and tosse it among themselves. what an extraordinary moment of political failure by a political party. it s either personal against kevin or remember that this is the same brain trust that brought you almost two yearso ju ago, january six . the way that they ve gone