10-04-2023, 11:54 AM
(10-04-2023, 11:50 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Of course they did, that's politics. Offer a compromise they know he won't accept so when he's ousted they can pretend they tried to offer him a bipartisan solution. Most viewers will eat that kind of pablum up. Offering to keep him Speaker while neutering his ability to actually be Speaker is not a compromise, it's theatre.
You mean like how McCarthy became Speaker in the first place? He was neutered from the start and it was his own party that did it.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR