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Fleischmann left ‘shocked’ by would-be House Speaker McCarthy dropping out McCarthy abruptly withdraws candidacy for House speaker John Boehner, behind the tears
It has been increasingly evident that the Republican Party is falling apart, a victim of its rabid right minority, despite majorities in both chambers of Congress.
It has never been more evident than this week when that squawking minority hard-right group of 30 or 40 House of Representatives members proved they could topple two House leaders in a matter of days. CNN has aptly dubbed the fiasco “the House of Cards.”
Even Democrats are holding their heads in their hands at the sight of more congressional idiocy at a time when Americans already think Congress is broken.
This Congress is broken, but the model our forefathers gave us is not. We just have to get the faulty 40 – otherwise known as the Freedom Caucus – voted out at every next opportunity. In Tennessee, that apparently includes Republican Scott DesJarlais, according to a map created by The New York Times.