Kurt Schlichter: The Conservatives’ Game of Chicken Pays Off, We Hope

Kurt Schlichter: The Conservatives’ Game of Chicken Pays Off, We Hope

THE SIGNAL

With the advantage of a week of hindsight, the resolution of the Speaker fight was always pretty clear. The Speaker, for a variety of reasons, needed to be Kevin McCarthy, and he needed to agree to rules and other arrangements that ensured that the house would no longer be the ironfisted, establishment-friendly Speaktatorship of Boehner, Ryan, and Pelosi. McCarthy had to compromise, and the Rebels had to accept a compromise, and the standoff had to end. And it did. And the new rules were …

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