Love democracy? Despise Trump? Subscribe to the Dirty Moderate Nation Substack October 4, 2023 Kevin McCarthy’s desperate, pathetic 15 vote slog to finally become Speaker of the House was a triumph for no one, least of all for him. The spineless Congressman from Bakersfield, once an anodyne conservative from among the more crimson districts of California, and whose MAGA metamorphosis involved his prostrating himself as Trump’s toady-in-chief, still couldn’t get to 218. Indeed, 218 House members voted for either Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries or voted ‘present.’ McCarthy’s short-lived stint as Speaker was, in the end, a fool’s errand, and at worst, a kamikaze mission. But his distinction, as the only Speaker ever to be removed, has been well earned.
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The Fall of the House of Kevin
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Love democracy? Despise Trump? Subscribe to the Dirty Moderate Nation Substack October 4, 2023 Kevin McCarthy’s desperate, pathetic 15 vote slog to finally become Speaker of the House was a triumph for no one, least of all for him. The spineless Congressman from Bakersfield, once an anodyne conservative from among the more crimson districts of California, and whose MAGA metamorphosis involved his prostrating himself as Trump’s toady-in-chief, still couldn’t get to 218. Indeed, 218 House members voted for either Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries or voted ‘present.’ McCarthy’s short-lived stint as Speaker was, in the end, a fool’s errand, and at worst, a kamikaze mission. But his distinction, as the only Speaker ever to be removed, has been well earned.