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In his short tenure as House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy steered the U.S. economy to the

edge of a fiscal cliff over the debt ceiling. He backed out of a promise with Democrats

on government funding. He brought the government within hours of a shutdown. But that's not

why he lost his job Tuesday night.

And I think that's what's most concerning of all is that they did this out of, you know,

out of retribution for him going ahead and funding the U.S. government.

That's Republican strategist Ron Bonjean and the group of Republicans that have voted

alongside a Democrats to Austin, they don't have a plan moving forward. There isn't a

plan.

That vote came after Florida Republican Matt Gates filed a motion to vacate the speaker.

After McCarthy agreed to a short term, stopgap bill with Democrats to keep the government

open.

Now McCarthy is gone. The first House Speaker in U.S. history voted out of the post.

But the politics that made his job, all but impossible, they're still there. Specifically,

the eight Republican representatives with a nihilistic streak as another Republican strategist

Liam Donovan put it. The ones who voted McCarthy out.

It's a question. How do you get around this determined romp who have just completely

contorted incentives are looking for attention or looking to raise money from their own

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