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Do Justice by Kristi Burton Brown5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() They opposed McCarthy - who, to be sure, is little more than a dishonest opportunist - apparently because he’s not lunatic-right enough, and he had rebuffed their hostage-taker demands. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Chip Roy of Texas and Lauren Boebert of Colorado. He was referring to the likes of extremist Reps. “But if you’re a narcissist, if you’re a narcissist and you believe that your opinion is so much more important than everyone else’s then you keep going.” “That’s what it is, and anyone who suggests differently is in some kind of make-believe fantasy reality.” He added that the GOP conference had debates about the speaker vote, and that should have allowed the members to coalesce around a candidate. “Very clearly they’re looking for notoriety over principle,” an exasperated Republican Rep. ![]() For the first time in a century, the chamber failed to elect a new speaker on the first ballot (or the second or sixth) as the Republican frontrunner, Kevin McCarthy of California, faced hardened opposition from the MAGA faction of his conference. On the very first day that Republicans were back in control of the chamber, chaos reigned - mostly due to petty grievances, obstinacy and, above all, attention-seeking. The most immediate example of this was the vexed efforts this week to select a new speaker of the U.S. ![]()
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