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  Sad and extremely frustrating.
  Made much worse by the fact the extreme right now has a stranglehold on the Republican Party.
  Trump, OMG, I just could never have imagined.
context: "A lackey to all, is a master of none." 🤷‍♂️ >
  
  This guy is so out of his depth trying to be speaker >
  
  They want him to be speaker. He gets to be The Face of the house which means when it all goes to hell, they'll devour him. In the mean time, he will have to bend like a willow branch to get a vote, and they'll be owed a favour. 
  Eventually, he'll owe so many favours, they'll run the train on him. >
  
  Republicans have firmly established that they do not return favors. >
  
  Yes they do. They return party favors to the store and get cash back. >
  
  Really making it clear he shouldn’t be the Speaker of the House. >
  
  Indeed. This is all going deliciously poorly for the crime caucus.
  Before piling onto Republicans in Disarray, though, I did a quick to ensure the shenanigans around Pelosi weren't as bad in 2020 and I have a biased memory... She was voted to be speaker on November 18th. Over a month later and they're still squabbling -- and it seems like it's getting worse!
  This speakership is gonna be a hot mess. >
  
  McCarthy and his angry radicals want to force government into their childish way of thought.  Now they are realizing they can't even force many Senate Republicans into their childish way of thought. This will make them all the more angry and most likely result in childish lash outs. Ugh. >
  
  You would think that Kevin would want to avoid another public loss and rebuke. To go to the senate and to make an impassioned plea and then to threaten members of your own party and to come up a loser again is just humiliating.
  Can you imagine Mitch McConnell doing something as pathetic as this? I hate Mitch but he is no dummy. I can’t imagine Mitch putting his political clout on the line only to be shot down. I think everyone must truly hate Kevin to watch him burn this way. >
  
  Successful speakers have almost never been total ideologues. They’re canny politicians who know how to keep people in line. How to whip. How to make compromises - both inside their own party and, when necessary, with the opposition. Above all else, they’re pragmatists. They know not to pick fights they can’t win.
  McCarthy is literally none of that. >
  
  Well he did get everyone to agree on one thing. Kevin is an idiot. >
  
  Resoundingly agree. >
  
  Keep on pushing Kevin and he's gonna bust out his "go to".  That is, he will take a film crew down to the border and stare at that motherfucker like it was nobody's business and run his damn mouth. >
  
  Don't forget to dub the soundtrack from the Clint Eastwood  film, "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly". >
  
  If McCarthy gets the speaker position he will be very good at failing. He will fail America for two years for sure. >
  
  It's kind of fascinating this this incompetent, spineless twit is willing to say or do absolutely anything to become Speaker of the House for what will probably just be a matter of months before his own caucus dumps him for someone else. 
  Fun to watch though. >
  
  Yet another sign how sorry things have actually become in this country. The fact somebody like this is actually is seriously being considered as the best they have to offer for Speaker of The House. >
  
  The really sad thing is that the only real function of the House for the  next two years is going to be saying 'No!' to literally anything the Biden administration suggests, and that's all they're going to care about. >
  
  I don't know where you have been but that's pretty much what the Republicans have been doing for a long time now. Their lack of any platform whatsoever signals what their real priority is.
  This is the very reason things like infrastructure, immigration, and many other things simply can't move forward. True, they finally passed an infrastructure bill this year, but it's been long overdue.  A good majority of these type of issues really do have a huge impact on the strength of our nation.
  As a country if we can't somehow get beyond this current crap our future doesn't look all that promising. >
  
  
  I don't know where you have been but that's pretty much what the Republicans have been doing for a long time now. Their lack of any platform whatsoever signals what their real priority is.
  
  Oh, I'm very well aware of that.  I've been paying close (perhaps obsessive?) attention to politics since the Reagan admininstration.  I'm not saying this is new.  What I'm saying is that this is sad.