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GOP ousts McCarthy as speaker Kevin McCarthy struck a notorious Faustian bargain with MAGA Republicans to become House speaker. It required him to give them the power to gun him down. And that could happen on a whim. Yet McCarthy was all too willing to pay that price. Everyone knew it was only a matter of time before a… Read more.
As the country hurls closer to a government shutdown, a handful of hard-right Republican lawmakers who have been impeding nearly all progress toward funding the government, appear undeterred, even as a shutdown risks disrupting the lives of millions of Americans. … The most vocal of this handful is Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who has threatened… Read more.
If you tune in to CNN or MSNBC at the top of any hour, anchors and commentators will probably be decrying the latest outrage some Republican congressman has incited. But then at the bottom of that hour, without any hint of self-awareness or irony, those same anchors and commentators will be questioning the failure of… Read more.
