Catastrophic shutdown averted as McCarthy sides with Democrats over far right in his own party

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the-independent.com

Republicans avoid shutdown by cutting deal with Democrats over their own party’s hardliners

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It didn't read that way to me. This could be the end of McCarthy as speaker because he worked with Democrats. Did you see the paragraph:

Jim McGovern, a Democrat from Massachusetts, offered a simple commentary as he left the floor following the vote: “We won.”

The headline made it sound like the Republicans avoided it; that's all. You know most Republicans don't read anything more than a headline. :) I'm mostly frustrated with that is all. The context almost always leans differently.

Republicans avoid shutdown by cutting deal with Democrats over their own party’s hardliners

Any Republican who reads that, what do you think they read? I know what I think, and, unfortunately, as an observer of those people's reactions, I'm positive that's how they'll read it.

Well Republicans control the house so it was factually a Republican who sided with Democrats over the Republican freedom caucus.

But now comes the speaker fight. And whoever becomes speaker gets the albatross of the biden impeachment around their neck.