It took 15 votes for Kevin McCarthy to get the Speaker of the House post. It was worth it. If it took 15 more votes to get a Speaker with a spine of titanium, it would have been worth it. It was worth listening to Hakeem Jeffries’ Alphabet Speech to watch him hand the gavel. It was worth watching Hakeem Jeffries beg McCarthy to keep Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff on the Intelligence Committee. Kevin shutting them down was GREAT. Little Eric Swalwell pouting and threatening McCarthy is better than Top Gun: Maverick in 3D.
What makes the schadenfreude so yummy delicious is the cavalier and capricious way Republicans were treated for the last two years. The Democrats behaved as if they had been elected for life as a permanent government and broke every rule of comity, led down the garden path by San Fran Nan. It would have been tit for tat if Kevin McCarthy had denied Swalwell and Schiff seats on Judiciary for revenge. He denied them and he had good reasons. He sent Hakeem Jeffries a letter and snippets were published at CNN.
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