David Frum says Kevin McCarthy never had a functioning majority as speaker.
“Which left Plan B: Accept reality; acknowledge that the GOP had not won a functioning majority; and reach across the aisle, make deals, and do your business that way.”
“That’s what McCarthy did in May with the debt-ceiling deal and tried to do again with the budget this past weekend.
The first foray wounded him. The second finished him.”“The rules of contemporary Republican politics make it hard to accept reality. Reality is just too awkward.”