House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called for Republicans to ā€œget their act togetherā€ and elect the next speaker while slamming the ā€œextremistsā€ within their party.

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      Correct. Their extreme wing, the Chaos Caucus, has become too extreme even for them. Unfortunately for Republicans their majority in the House relies on the same bozos who are acting like an opposition party. So while Republicans have a technical majority they do not have a functional majority.

      Whatā€™s crazy is that since the Freedumb Caucus is in such opposition to the wider body of Republicans that theyā€™ve handed the Democrats a functional majority on several issues, including the Speakership.

      The pack of idiots led by Matt Gaetz cut off their own nose (McCarthy) in order to spite their face so now the Speaker situation can only end with a candidate that has enough Bi-Partisan support to overcome them and after that happens the House is going to advance legislation thatā€™s far more liberal than anything that would have been done under McCarthy.

      Edit: It has begun.