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Meanwhile additional gridlock like this is going to occur with only a very short stopgap spending bill approved going into November and no other major viable candidates for republican speaker appear to be present.
I can’t wait to see how they’re going to make this the democrat’s fault.
He already tried to blame them on CNN or something. Saw the headline. Didn’t read the article.
I was just reading a WSJ article about it and basically the through line is “well we never gave Dems any concessions or have any plans to, and we forced through that last spending bill without time for review, and I broke promises on spending limits and then launched an unfounded impeachment bid BUT THEY WONT SHOW ANY UNITY TO KEEP THE HOUSE GOING” (obviously paraphrasing there)
The short of that is that he spun the efforts of the Democrats to actually read what they were voting on as efforts to shut him down, to try and make the moderate republicans the only good guys.
Democrats were the primary party to vote him out. So they can blame it on that. But since they have the majority, there is no excuse to not elect a new leader. Unless, of course, there is literally no republican suitable for the position…