CNN concluded its account of the election in the House of Representatives as follows:

“Gaetz, however, suggested the historic fight would have a different impact on McCarthy’s speakership. Due to the concessions, Gaetz argued, McCarthy will be governing in a ‘straitjacket’.”

I hope Speaker McCarthy will have the courage (?) and prudence (?) to make void any concessions he is claimed to have made, especially to Gaetz, the class clown cum badboy. Maybe the Republicans are now sufficiently angry and embarrassed to muzzle Gaetz and his fellow defectors. I don’t know. Republicans have seemed, like their Leader, to be immune to embarrassment. Yet the last days have shown that the Republicans, majority or not, are not now capable of governing themselves, let alone the Country. Maybe they will do a bit of housecleaning.