The GOP's once-in-a-century sabotage of Kevin McCarthy, via TianatheFirst.
For the first time in exactly 100 years, the election for speaker of the House of Representatives will go to a second ballot. Despite securing Republicans a razor-thin margin in Congress's lower chamber, Rep. Kevin McCarthy secured just 203 votes to become the third-in-line to the presidency. Nineteen Republicans voted for other candidates, and 212 Democrats backed Rep. Hakeem Jeffries to succeed Rep. Nancy Pelosi .
It borders on banal to lament both political factions' penchant for choosing party over country, but the Republican defection constitutes something even more grotesque: choosing personal vendettas and chaos over party and over country.Do the defectors — the most vociferous of whom include Rep. Lauren Boebert , who barely won Colorado's 3rd District, and Rep.
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