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Kevin McCarthy Finally Got the Gavel!

Is McCarthy a SINO — Speaker in Name Only?

Fudgin' Politics
6 min readJan 9, 2023
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The 15th vote is the charm! Grinning from ear to ear slamming that gavel to the table. Was he envisioning playing a game of whack-a-mole? That was exhausting!

What our nation has witnessed this week is a testament to the majesty of our Constitutional Republic and the ideals which have sustained our country for 246 years — Rep. Byron Donalds

“Testament to the majesty of our Constitutional Republic”? Majesty? Everyone saw the footage of Rep. Mike Rogers lunging at McCarthy. Then Richard Hudson grabbed Rogers by the face and pulled him away. As McCarthy was walking away. That was majestical! More like an upcoming Saturday Night Live skit?

“Ideals which have sustained our country for 246 years?” Whose ideals? Did they include five days of yelling, fighting, arm-twisting, cajoling, surrendering, and threatening?

We kept hearing on Sunday shows about it being “messy”. Messy is a five-year-old eating.

Kev got the win because the remaining holdouts voted “present”. Present? What the hell is that? Confused politicians, who don’t know the difference between Yes and No? If…

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