The vote for a Speaker of the House dragged on longer than expected. Was this a good thing? See analysis and perspectives across the spectrum from FoxNewsOpinion, thehill, and Milbank:
Stop the pearl-clutching, my fellow Republicans. This drama over the House speakership is the best thing that could have happened.
Well, maybe not the best thing: that would have been a 30-vote Republican majority in the House. That would have stopped the Democrat’s big spending, radical leftist agenda dead in its tracks. That would have let the Speaker of the House to tell Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to pound sand. But the supermajority didn’t happen.
So, House Republicans need to change tactics. Senate Majority Leader Schumer is no longer Speaker McCarthy’s biggest obstacle. It’s now his...
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