After 15 Grueling House Speaker Votes, America's Long National Nightmare Can Finally Begin
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a week of grueling votes for Speaker of the House — 15 in total — Kevin McCarthy was finally handed the people's gavel and took his rightful place as Speaker. He lifted it up to the raucous applause of both Democrats and Republican...
Would have been nice if this dragged out a little longer. Then maybe people would realize congress doesn't actually do anything as their lives would go on as normal. Actually, probably better than normal as when congress does something, it is almost always bad.
Maybe that's why the media made such a big deal out of it. Because they want to keep up the illusion that congress actually has a positive role in society, which it does not as it currently stands. They needed to manufacture pressure to get it moving or basically, nothing bad would happen with it out of operation and people would realize they don't need congress.