Good Grief. Kevin McCarthy Learns a Hard Lesson About Democrats and Political Nihilism

The ex-speaker is accusing Nancy Pelosi of breaking a promise to help him save his job. It’s a reminder that bipartisanship has its limits.

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Representative Kevin McCarthy leaves the House floor after being ousted as speaker, October 3, 2023. AP/Stephanie Scarbrough

A unanimous Democratic caucus joined eight right-wing Republicans in voting Tuesday to vacate the House speaker’s chair. The following day, the now former speaker, Representative Kevin McCarthy, said he’d believed that “Democrats who said they wanted to keep government open” would have rewarded his doing so by voting to preserve his speakership.

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