House Republicans in need of some adult oversight.
Sometimes you can see an outcome from a mile away, and it’s still a shock when it happens. So it was when a sliver of the House GOP succeeded in removing Kevin McCarthy as speaker, the first time in American history the leader of the U.S. House has been ousted. His standing seemed precarious from the start in January, when it took 15 votes from his GOP colleagues to secure the number needed for the prize.
, back in January, McCarthy ended up agreeing to House rules that allowed any single member to demand a vote on whether to remove him. Gaetz, a thorn in McCarthy’s side all year long, took advantage, necessitating the vote. No matter that the vast majority of the GOP conference supported McCarthy and wanted no part of this. To put that in context, in the previous Congress only a majority of members of the House could put Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s job in jeopardy.
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