elected. a speaker has not been elected. yes, the circus is still in town and the group of 20 serial insurrectionists opposing kevin mccarthy, they are right about one thing, this man has no business being speaker of the house. if he can t navigate his way around the basic vote to get the job he s not remotely capable of leading especially a radical caucus filled with this iteration of republicans. and we do begin tonight with the never ending republican fight over the next hour the never ending republican fight for speaker. over the next hour kevin mccarthy should be wise to learn this one lesson because he s going to be facing this hell over the next hour. any tolerance of insurrection breeds more. in the next hour as i mention the house will return to try to get done what they could not do earlier on this ground-hog day of voting. but beyond showing in realtime kevin s inability to do the job this dumpster fire is making it clear the republicans keeping republicans par
the house will return to try to get done what they could not do earlier on this ground-hog day of voting. but beyond showing in realtime kevin s inability to do the job this dumpster fire is making it clear the republicans keeping republicans paralyzed are just digging in. on his second day of humiliation, while those 20 backed a new candidate, one of their own, former congressman byron donalds who previously supported mccarthy. in nominating donalds, a black republican, for the third time today on the sixth vote for speaker, house freedom caucus chair scott perry, one of the january 6th plotters who tried to subvert the department of justice to overthrow the last election precisely because republicans do not trust the results when black voters get their way, added something about frederick douglas because of course he did. and he justified paralyzing the house because washington is
this has been an extremely embarrassing time for kevin mccarthy especially when you compare him to speaker nancy pelosi who will go down as one of america s greatest speakers and who managed throughout her speakership dating back to 2007 to wrangle a group of lawmakers, the democrats, who are far more racially and ideologically diverse than the most almost solidly white christian and overwhelmingly male republicans. for example, when democrats became the majority in 2018 pelosi was facing democrats who had won seats in part by promising to not support her for speaker. 16 democrats publicly came out against her, and when house democrats held their nominating election, 32 voted against her in a secret ballot. but nancy pelosi being nancy pelosi she was able to flip