“You gaslight yourself by being crazy.” – Judy Gemstone
This week’s sequence of congressional slap fights scraped the edge of a devastating government shutdown and led to the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The process has resulted in the single most predictable outcome: Democrats being blamed for Republican disarray.
Congressional Democrats did not force McCarthy out. The Dems made it plain that they did not support McCarthy for a list of reasons, including gaming January 6 investigations, permissiveness towards baseless Biden impeachment hearings, and all around brinksmanship when it came to the budget in the first place. The MAGA alt-fascists, empowered by a GOP that’s more than happy to stand back and stand by for a wannabe Caesar, pushed McCarthy. The Dems just didn’t hold a safety net, not that it would catch such a feckless worm.
