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
a subpar performance. so say what you will aboutbot the effort to prevent mccarthy from becominheim frog speaker, the terrorism, as we re calling it, and watches terrorism. that effort has one upside.r that effort hathat es challenged the current system in way a meaningful way. kevin mccarthy.kevin may in ths become speaker of the house. he likely will because no one seems man enough to challenge himchalleng direct so he ll get it by default if he s trying really hard. so maybe he does deserve. r, if but here s the critical thingper to know if he does becom, eme se leeaker by the time heak becomes speaker, kevin mccarthy will have learned a lot. kevin mccarthy will have publicly acknowledged his publ acknowl. he will have been forced to face the people he hasdisa heoidisappointed, both within the congress and outside of it. and he will have promisedere to changwe we. so here we will have suffering accountability and repentance. those are not bad things. no, those are the best thi