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    Jackie Calmes: Watch while Kevin McCarthy puts on 'impeachment theater' and the government teeters

    The kudos for Kevin were short-lived. Last spring House Speaker Kevin McCarthy rightly got props from folks across the political spectrum, myself included, for compromising with President Joe Biden to raise the nation's debt limit and thereby avert economic armageddon. But that meant, of course, that the uncompromising far-right flank of his Republican caucus, which has the power to hold ...
    by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times Sep 08, 2023 3 minutes
    House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks to reporters outside the Speaker's Balcony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 25, 2023.

    The kudos for Kevin were short-lived.

    Last spring House Speaker Kevin McCarthy rightly got props from folks across the political spectrum, myself included, for compromising with President Joe Biden to raise the nation's debt limit and thereby avert economic armageddon. But that meant, of course, that the uncompromising far-right flank of his Republican caucus, which has the power to hold McCarthy hostage to its demands, was apoplectic.

    The troublemakers needn't have feared.

    The proverbial ink on the debt deal was hardly dry before McCarthy started backtracking. Astoundingly, he assured the wacky House Freedom

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