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Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., leaves the House floor after being ousted as Speaker of the House at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.Over the last several years — particularly beginning with the Donald Trump presidency — everyone from pundits to casual observers has been debating whether the current rancor and extreme partisan divide is more dangerous to our democracy than at any other time in American history.
What we are watching unfold in real time, though, may just suggest that the debate over this equivalency is irrelevant. You would be forgiven if the old adage “the inmates are running the asylum” has come to mind over the last several years as you consider the ability of Congress to do its job. It is difficult to think of a significant piece of legislation that has been passed with true, as opposed to token, bipartisan support for many years.
As this played out in the Senate, Speaker McCarthy was faced with some very challenging choices: he could have let the extremists win, resulting in the all-but-guaranteed government shutdown as of Friday night; he could have continued to try find a resolution that would have brought his caucus together; he could have sought out just enough Democratic support to send a largely unacceptable bill back to the Senate, where it surely would have been defeated; or, like the Senate, he could have...
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