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Bucky

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1. This is bad for governance, but worse for dishonesty
Wed Oct 4, 2023, 06:30 AM
Oct 2023

It's just a shame that a weasel like McCarthy ever got into the Speaker's chair. But you can blame that on the internal dynamics of the highly dysfunctional Republican party.

I mean, I think it's good that we got at least a temporary spending bill out of him, but that one moment of responsibility cost him his job. But it left us with a crooked deal that's still threatens to reward Russia for its interference in Ukraine and American politics.

I'm just not certain the Republicans can do better than McCarthy. Whoever they put in that chair is gonna also live under the cloud of their fickle culture of preferring personal effective over public responsibility.

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