Today, as on many days, I am proud to live in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where every one of our elected representatives voted against McCarthy. Every. Single. Time. Democrats: Love the ones you’re with.™
@danielpunkass I watched the State Senate inaugurations the other day. They had the predicable party split for Senate President, but then the Republicans all changed their vote for unanimous support of the Democrat. Nice to see people working together; that’s an important symbol.
@danielpunkass @mitch I genuinely wonder whether Democrats in the House would have been smarter to say "fine, here are your 20 votes, but these our our conditions". I assume Jeffies and other Democrats had great reasons for not going down that road. I just wonder what they were.
@johnbrayton @danielpunkass That would have been an interesting conversation. My guess is any move like that would have gotten the other R’s to close ranks and approve McCarthy earlier (preventing D involvement). That would have made the R’s look better than 15 votes and still given D’s nothing. Hard to know.