and now we have to finish for the american public because it took this long. now we learned how to govern. so now we ll be able to get e the job. positive spin on things.e the dam could finally the be breaking in the battle for the gavel, as we re calling it. gavel.kevin mccarthy inching t a little closer than ever to capturing house speaker, but he s still coming upo a little short. mccarthy was able to flip r 15 out of the twentyhold one republican holdouts, but its wasn t enoug h. he needs a few more votes to save yours truly from the embarrassment of callingembm kevin speaker for the last feww, months. but right now, the republicans are taking are time out until 10 to gorge on pizza and figure out a plan pizza. y been mccarthy has reportedly been cutting deals and offering ngconcessions to win overver ke the never kevans. yet he apparently stilvil haapps some work to do. several believe that one earns the position of speaker by raising enormous sums of money. thatth
about the last week. i mean, since voting started o on tuesday, it was clear from te the beginning and actually going into the vote waas way ayd of time, months ahead of time, that this was he was not going to have the votes right away. these twenty republicans haven been falsely accused of having no specifiy acc list of concesss that they wanted, no specific agenda that they wante d, that it was all just personal.e hold they didn t like kevin mccarthy and that s why they re holding up the votinthat is e. t tr clearly, that s not true. chip roy has been negotiatingnei thisat behind the scenes. they have a whole list ofh incl things they aren t able to get, which includesud mor putting mor the power in the committees rather than the speaker s office. yo sffice.u if you re going to d a new government program, you have to get rid ofav a governmet program. ogram. and byron donald said that last week. he said it againday today and e actually switched his vote today, which is progress. and