The speaker of the House still don’t govern too good.
There was a disgusting—genuinely filthy—amount of political news for a dumb week in February. Republican leaders in both chambers of Congress lost control, with one of them felled by an old, shoeless man in a wheelchair. The Justice Department declined to prosecute Joe Biden but couldn’t help notice he’s gettin’ long in the tooth. Nikki Haley lost the Nevada primary to an enigma.
time serving as leader of this bare House Republican majority, which is hardly a governing majority at all. But McCarthy probably wouldn’t have put two consecutive failed votes on the floor.. And then he had, by far, his worst week in some time. First, he referred to the presidents of France and Germany as, respectively. Regrettably, both Mitterrand and Kohl are among the most dead people on the planet.
in Republicans’ favor than this one. After what happened to Lankford, it may be a little longer than the average five years before a Republican has the nerve to try again.The idea that all but four Senate Republicans would immediately kill a deal that McConnell had authorized—and that his staff had helped Sen. Lankford craft—would have been unheard of a few years ago.
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