BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy wins Speakership on 15th ballot (216-212 with 6 "Present")

[brooklynite]

[crickets]

1. Where's the 212th D vote? eta

Never mind, now that the hooting and hollering is over, the last vote is in.

[brooklynite]

3. Just voted

[Takket]

2. pathetic

now we find out how many testicles he had to give up to make this vote happen. make no mistake the American people will be the ones to suffer for whatever concessions he made to the magats.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

10. Also like giving into blackmail, or paying a ransom

to bad actors, it will continue to happen.

I think they succeeded in breaking the United States.

[electric_blue68]

4. Ugh ..

[Ocelot II]

5. Well, the dog finally caught the car he was chasing.

And now he has a mouthful of dirty rubber and no idea what to do.

[dalton99a]

6. "My kind of Speaker"

[lindysalsagal]

7. Till they threaten to fire him!

[EnergizedLib]

8. A pretty sad indictment

It took 15 ballots and a lot of selling out to make this happen.

May our Senate stand tall.

[crickets]

9. It's amazing how McCarthy can't shut up and sit still for five minutes.

He literally can't stop twitching and talking to people until the votes are read. Gravitas is beyond him.

[AllyCat]

11. Blech!

What did he promise the loons?

[sarisataka]

12. In honor of this vote...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Couldn't watch the very last one. Wasted a whole week watching!

Who would have ever thought we'd be rooting for the devils to delay it?. Here we are, same outcome, but we're worse off a week later.