The impending showdown on Capitol Hill over government funding represents a significant leadership test for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The road ahead is rocky as the speaker faces tough vote math, major challenges and the potential threat of a conservative revolt against his speakership.
Turns out constantly capitulating to the far right doesn’t earn you any loyalty from them – who’d have guessed? /s
What’s funny is there is no one that can get enough votes to be speaker. The inmates are running the asylum and doing a terrific job!
There were fifteen votes just to get him seated as Speaker. Go ahead, put him out and start over.
15 rounds of voting. (For a moment, my brain was interpreting that as “had 15 extra votes”, but that didn’t make sense.)