OPINION:
The fight over House speaker had nothing to do with democracy. It is OK for democracy to be messy, but it’s far from all right for it to be stupid and destructive.
It would be one thing if the small group of Republicans who rebelled against Kevin McCarthy had been rooting for another electable Republican leader, but that wasn’t the case. They had no one else. Their only goal was to prevent Mr. McCarthy from the speakership. It seemed they would have rather turned the House over to the Democrats than do what the people elected them to do, which is govern.
These people do not give a hoot for the country, and their actions last week showed as much. They are in it for the power play and the five minutes of attention it gives them. Despicable.
GRETA JEUNEHOMME
Lake Forest, California
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