Hey Michael Steele podcast listeners, you're listening to Make Mine A Double, a little segment

I've put together where I can share just a bit more of what I really think about today's

news and political crazy.

So sit back, relax, enjoy me for a few sips of sanity, and make mine a double.

I don't know about you, but I find it absolutely amazing.

How damn good Republicans are at taking out their own speakers of the house.

Folks y'all realized, realizing the last what, 35 years or so, every Republican speaker

has been shot down, not by Democrats, but by friendly fire inside the GOP caucus.

New-English, gone, not at the hands of losing the house to Democrats, but at the hands of

Republicans, John Boehner, gone, same thing, Paul Ryan, gone, same thing.

And now Kevin McCarthy, see ya, because one person decided, I'm going to vacate the

chair because I don't like what he's doing, I don't like how he's leading the caucus.

So he got to decide, Matt Gates of Florida, got to decide that the speaker of the house

should no longer remain in the job.

First you need to remember something, Republicans have done this to themselves.

So can we stop the bullshit narrative that's emerging out there mainstream media that

the Democrats ousted Kevin McCarthy because they didn't vote to save his lame ass job?

This is not how it works in politics.

The opposition is not there to protect the ones they are posing.

The opposition did what it needed to do 15 times when it voted for a keen jeffries

for speaker and not Kevin McCarthy, 15 times, why 15 times?

Because that's the number of times it took Republicans to finally decide to settle on

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