One might be inclined to ask: If Kevin McCarthy’s loss of the U.S. House speakership was a result of his working with House Democrats to forestall a government shutdown, why didn’t Democrats vote to keep him in office?

I think I know. It is because Democrats don’t trust him any more than the MAGA cult followers who led the charge to oust him.

You see, Kevin McCarthy is a sort of closet MAGA minion. He condemned Donald Trump for his conduct on 1/6, then went immediately to Mar-a-Lago to have his picture taken with the former POTUS, grinning and embracing the leader of the MAGA cult.

How do you work with someone like that?

Moreover, then McCarthy had the MAGA crowd to whom he had to make plenty of promises in order to be elected speaker. It took House members 15 ballots to hand the gavel to McCarthy. One of the stipulations, apparently, was that he shouldn’t work Democrats and that under a new rule, a single House member could call for a motion to vacate the speakership if McCarthy broke any of the rules … to which he agreed!

He broke the rule about working with Democrats and that prompted Rep. Matt Gaetz to file the motion to vacate the speakership.

Democrats sat still and listened to Republicans argue among themselves on the House floor today.

This entire discussion and the resulting vote demonstrated clearly that Kevin McCarthy was no more the Man of the House than the guy who sweeps the floor at the end of the day.

Thus, I won’t feel one little bit of sympathy for this individual.