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Well, that didn鈥檛 take long. The resolution was brought to the floor, the House voted, and just like that, Kevin McCarthy was no longer speaker. And yet, at his post-vote news conference, he was upbeat. He accepted defeat, didn鈥檛 fight it, didn鈥檛 claim the vote was rigged.

He said he negotiated with Democrats to avoid a shutdown for the good of the country, and if that meant giving up his dream job, so be it. But I also got the feeling he was glad to be rid of it.

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“You can’t do the job. Eight people, you have 96% of your entire conference, but eight people can partner with the whole other side,” McCarthy said. “How do you govern and for them to make a motion on me because I made a decision for the country that they agreed with? But they choose to do the other. That becomes a problem.”

And when he was asked about those eight conservative Republicans and their insistence on conservative principles, he refused to accept the premise that Matt Gaetz and his cohort were in any way conservatives.

“They don’t get to say they’re conservative because they’re angry and they’re chaotic. That’s not the party I belong to,” McCarthy said. “The party of Reagan was if you believed in your principles that you could govern in a conservative way. They are not conservatives, and they do not have the right to have the title.”

I don鈥檛 know who has the official power to declare who鈥檚 a conservative and who鈥檚 not, but I do think we鈥檝e learned that there are some members of Congress who, despite their oath, just don鈥檛 get the point of the Constitution. As McCarthy pointed out, it鈥檚 all about one word.

鈥淕overnment鈥檚 designed that you have to have compromise,” McCarthy said. “No, you can鈥檛 get everything that you want.鈥�

鈥淕overnment鈥檚 designed that you have to have compromise.鈥� Yes! That鈥檚 the whole reason there鈥檚 a House and a Senate! But if you fill those positions with members who see compromise as a dirty word, all you get is a standoff.

And so it was that a Republican Speaker who compromised with the Democrats to keep the government open鈥� was voted out by those same Democrats, who closed ranks with the eight Republicans who would not compromise. So that Nov. 17, when the next shutdown crisis is scheduled, there鈥檒l be a new speaker facing the same old problem.

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