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There is no obvious successor to oversee the House Republican majority. And the future of funding for Ukraine is equally uncertain.
News that Kevin McCarthy has instructed the House to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Biden is intended to do very little beyond generating headlines.
The world can breathe a sigh of relief as a bill to increase the US debt ceiling – and avert global financial catastrophe – heads to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
The President will try to persuade the politically vulnerable Leader of the House that it’s not worth blowing up the US economy over partisan wrangling.
After 11 rounds of voting, the House of Representatives is still Speaker-less, despite Kevin McCarthy’s best efforts.
The Republican problem over the Speaker is a symptom of their underlying sickness. The longer it goes on, the more acute the diagnosis.
Democracy in the United States is running on empty. Never mind Donald Trump, who liberals feared might have ended up as the American Idi Amin,
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