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Kevin McCarthy Is a Victim of the GOP Rebellion About Nothing
The party campaigned with no plan for governance aside from chaos, and it’s living up to that promise.
TFW it’s going just great.
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The American voting public, in its infinite wisdom, handed the Republican Party the gavel to the House of Representatives. The party took the gavel this week and promptly began smashing itself in the face with it, again and again. Sometimes, when the party’s smashing arm got tired, from all the smashing, it chewed on the gavel. At one point the House sergeant at arms had to pry the gavel’s handle from one of the party’s nostrils.