"...This is what happens when a political party, year after year, systematically destroys the norms and institutions of democracy. This is what happens when those expert at tearing things down are put in charge of governing. The dysfunction has been building over years of government shutdowns, debt-default showdowns and other fabricated crises, and now anti-government Republicans used their new majority to bring the House itself to a halt.
"This is insurrection by other means: Two years to the day since the Jan. 6
invasion of the Capitol, Republicans are still attacking the
functioning of government. McCarthy opened the door to the chaos by
excusing Donald Trump’s fomenting of the attack and welcoming a new
class of election deniers to his caucus. Now he’s trying to save his own
political ambitions by agreeing to institutionalize the chaos — not
just for the next two years but for future congresses as well..." -- Dana Milbank in the Washington Post on the recent "self- inflicted debacle" of the Republican/ Seditionist Party's attempts to select a Speaker of the House of Representatives. Finally selecting an ambitious, empty suit in the form of Kevin "Qevin" McCarthy, they succeeded only in bringing more disgrace upon themselves and to the concept of American democracy. "Squeaker" McCarthy will preside over an unstable, anarchic caucus that's intent only on creating more grievance and division, thereby scoring political points with its mouth- breathing MAGA base. It's like beating a dead horse, but this is America's continuing reality.
