 Cam Lager Dove. Yay. Captor. Yay. The Office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant. Are you waiting for us without border permission? Is that what you're saying? Well, look, our goal is to secure the border. Well, I mean, it's the first time that a sitting speaker's ever been ousted, so it's unprecedented in that sense. There have been earlier moments in American history where there's been a great deal of trouble electing a speaker, particularly around the 1850s. There was a great deal of trouble there. Votes, votes, votes, finally getting people in the chair. I mean, it's a sign, I think. If history is any guide at all to this, it's a sign of a party in disintegration. I mean, that's what's happening, and it's melting down, and that's pretty clear. That's the older history. The more recent history, I think, is that what we're seeing today is the latest installment in the ever-continuing coup d'etat by Donald Trump. I mean, that's what we're seeing. And it's pretty clear that he's the hidden hand in a lot of this stuff that's been going on, that I think probably the next step would be a shutdown, which is really what they're probably aiming for. They wanted to get McCarthy out of there in part because he stood in the way of that. Bunch of reasons, but that's part of it. And it's the politics of chaos. Mr. Speaker, my friend from Oklahoma says that my colleagues and I who don't support Kevin McCarthy would plunge the House and the country into chaos. Chaos is Speaker McCarthy. I do think this is a triumph for Donald Trump. Anytime that you have the order being overthrown, he's managing to do now what he couldn't do in January 6th, which is take over the House of Representatives and doing it with his own people. You don't have to have crazy shamans with crazy horns doing it. You can do it with Matt Gaetz from the Freedom Qualifiers to the Mac of People. It's been the same thing, which is the hard right of the Republican Party has overthrown in one way or another one speaker after another, forcing to resign as in the case of Boehner. This is the politics of cannibalism, which even Gingrich didn't like. They're eating their own. And the Republican Party a long time ago, really in the early 90s, decided that it was going to be able to take on this crazy kind of politics and be able to write it to victory all of the time and it would never catch up with them. But it caught up with them with Trump in a big way. My guess is that they'll try to find someone else who will command the respect of the entire Republican caucus and put it through, ram it through. But that's only the prelude. What I think is their ultimate idea, which is to shut down the government and blame it on Biden. I'll try to blame it on Biden. And not even that. Just shut it down. We're sort of at Batman politics here. This is kind of like the Joker. It's beyond anything that I'm capable of talking about because I only talk about the past and history and it's never been like this before. But there is a certain nihilistic quality to what they're doing. However, there is also genius in the madness because the madness is about creating as much chaos as possible and then the Trump people will step in. McCarthy was in an impossible position but in the end he is going to... He does vaguely believe in the country and he believes in politics up to a point but then he wasn't going to go that far. It's the very last minute over the weekend. He broke the deal. Look, there are a lot of other reasons that are going on here that are personal as well as political. I mean, you know, there's an ethics investigation of Matt Gaetz going on here about things that he was let off from in the courts but the Ethics Committee has a higher standard. I mean, he'd love to get rid of that and getting rid of McCarthy may have been a way to do that as well. There's many, many scenarios within scenarios going on here. If this is a prelude to shutdown, historically shutdowns have not been very productive for the party that shuts down the Congress. I mean, this happened in the 90s which is really the beginning of this history in some ways with Gingrich and the Republicans unleashed Gingrich thinking that he would do a good job against the Democrats and then he decided to take the whole country down with him with two shutdowns that basically re-elected Bill Clinton in 1996. So if you're going back on that president, if I was a Democrat, I'd say go ahead. The only problem is that we have to live with the effects of a government shutdown which are very, very dire and you don't want that to happen. You don't want to be the party that benefits from that because everybody's going through disaster, much worse now even than in the 90s.