And McCarthy still isn't speaker

 It's about time that someone sat him down and told him that he's not going to be it.  I'm getting the feeling that the days of "Oh it's your turn now" are over.

And Dan Crenshaw can go fuck himself.  Hey Dan?  Instead of insulting people and being a little bitch, why don't you try to figure out just who the hell could actually get the 218 votes?  Because it's looking like McCarthy ain't it.  

And can someone point me to something that McCarthy has actually done to deserve being speaker?  What legislative accomplishment happened?  What Democrat action did he block?  What has he done except hang around the longest?

I'm not saying he hasn't done anything but if he has I don't know about it.

Bah.  The longer this shitshow goes on, the less time they'll have to stab the GOP voting base in the back.  Again.

There's an oooooooold saying:  Be careful of the toes you step on today, because they might be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow.  The way the 20 are acting, I'm guessing that McCarthy stepped on too many toes, and now it's coming back to bite him in the ass.  I don't know what interactions he's had with the 20 nay-sayers, but it probably wasn't good.

Oh, and when you're making a bid to be in charge, it would help if you didn't have a history of unmitigated failure.  The GOP voters are sick and tired of the status quo, and they don't think that the people who enforced the status quo are the same ones who might actually start fighting back for this country.

The Republican establishment that still believes they can manage voters’ expectations to maintain the status quo may want to do a reality check. The base had high expectations in 2022, and the elections did not meet those expectations. Many voters suspect that at least some establishment Republicans put a greater emphasis on ensuring that candidates tied to President Trump did not win than on winning back the Senate and a more significant majority in the House.

Then, the GOP members they did manage to elect voted to keep the wildly unpopular Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as Senate Republican Leader. Then, with a RealClearPolitics average favorability rating of -33%, McConnell turned around and betrayed Republican voters by helping Democrats pass a $1.7 trillion Omnibus package along with 17 of his colleagues.

No one should be surprised that Republican voters are fed up. 

If you wanted to blame one single person for this clownshow, other than Kevin McCarthy, blame Mitch McConnell.  It was his push for the $1.7 trillion boondoggle that reminded Republican voters all over the country why they hate the so-called leadership of their party, and that said so-called "leadership" has hated them, ridiculed them and stabbed them in the back for years.