Published by admin on Thu, 01/12/2023 - 9:52am
Led by President Joe Biden, many critics on the left characterized last week’s chaotic congressional cage match to elect a new Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives as an embarrassment. When 20 conservative GOP rebels (I’m going to refer to them henceforth as the “Heroic 20”) refused to vote in favor of Trump-anointed Kevin McCarthy of California as speaker, the usually speedy, rubber-stamp process of selecting a speaker from the majority party ground to a halt and eventually took four days and 15 separate votes.