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After this week’s display in the House, with Republicans passing a defense programs authorization bill that Democrats call an “ode to bigotry and ignorance,” we know who’s running the show. It sure isn’t Speaker Kevin McCarthy. He started the week telling the Freedom Caucus and other frenzied members that they couldn’t endanger the bill’s passage by turning it into a “Christmas tree” with all their nonsense culture war poison pill amendments.
That lasted all of 48 hours before McCarthy capitulated.
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