It took 15 ballots but Kevin McCarthy is now Speaker of the House. For all the ridicule and hand-wringing of the past week, this is actually the way that the House is supposed to work. No one is supposed to be guaranteed a victory and the Speaker is not meant to be a benign dictator whose every whim is law.
If all of this drama leads us away from the concept of the Imperial Speakership, it’ll be worth it.
Pop Politics 
One thought on “Speaker McCarthy”