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  The saddest part is - pretty much the rest of the country knows he is  Speaker in name only.
  
  SPINO!
context: Santos has become the absolute poster child for Republican hypocrisy.  No matter what he does now, or did in the past, McCarthy will close both eyes just so he can look in the mirror, hold up the gavel and call himself Speaker of the House.
  The saddest part is - pretty much the rest of the country knows he is  Speaker in name only.  He has no freedom to even have his own opinion (as Trump most recently reminded him of), leave alone make any legislative decisions.  And for this, McCarthy enables someone as corrupt as Santos to remain in the House,  doing who knows what kind of damage to the country.
  How sad it must be to be so desperate.