James Downie: From botched committee hearings to failed subcommittees to intra-leadership disputes, Speaker McCarthy's tenure has been a kaleidoscope of incompetence.
Now one of the bit players in those fights is House speaker. McCarthy’s failures in that office have been, like the rest of his career, largely inconsequential. But if the country is to raise the debt limit in an orderly fashion, then he must quickly find one of two qualities he’s never displayed before. Either he’ll need to put his country over his position and broker a bipartisan deal in the House before the Freedom Caucus inevitably replaces him.
Off-ramps remain, including invoking the 14th Amendment, minting a platinum coin, forcing a discharge petition through the House and issuing
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