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The Associated Press \u2014 The United States Congress will remain headless until further notice, having decapitated its own leadership Tuesday in an unprecedented event in U.S. history.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The first-ever ouster of a sitting Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives\u00a0opens a period of disarray that could last days.<\/p>\n

The chamber now faces an urgent task to which all other issues will take a backseat, from passing a budget to funding Ukraine: that task is appointing a new leader of the chamber, third in line to the presidency.<\/p>

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Kevin McCarthy was ousted by eight members of his own party, who voted alongside 208 Democrats to remove him in a 216-210 vote.<\/p>

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It could take days to resolve\u00a0and it\u2019s unclear whether\u00a0McCarthy will run to regain his title.<\/p>\n

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As Republicans spewed\u00a0venom at\u00a0each other, Democrats watched in silence.<\/p>

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Members of the opposition party sat crossing their arms, smiling, refusing to either participate in the debate or to lift a finger in McCarthy\u2019s defence.<\/p>\n

It is\u00a0a historic flashpoint in a years-long battle between what some view as the Republican Party\u2019s governing wing versus its cable-television self-promotional wing.<\/p>

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\u201cIt\u2019s disgusting. It\u2019s what\u2019s disgusting about Washington,\u201d shouted one McCarthy defender, Republican Garret Graves of Louisiana, waving his phone, showing how his party\u2019s malcontents were raising money off their revolt.<\/p>

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\u201cMy phone keeps sending text messages. Saying, \u2018Hey, give me money!\u2019 Oh, look at that. \u2018Give me money \u2014\u00a0I\u2019ve filed a motion to vacate.\u2019\u00a0It\u2019s disgusting. It\u2019s what\u2019s disgusting about Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fears for Ukraine<\/h2>\n

This was on a day that President Joe Biden called world leaders including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to reassure them that U.S. support for Ukraine will continue.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. is by far the biggest military backer of\u00a0Kyiv, and current funds are believed to be enough to last, at most, several months.<\/p>\n

Ukraine funding was part of the stated rationale for the ouster attempt, which was launched by the flamethrowing Floridian Matt Gaetz, with the support of some hard-right commentators like Steve Bannon.<\/p>\n

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McCarthy had expressed support for more funding.<\/p>\n

The broader charge from Gaetz, however, is that\u00a0the Speaker is a liar. He said McCarthy promises everything to everybody, from the White House to Republicans, then breaks those promises.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing we have in common: Kevin McCarthy said something to all of us at one point or another that he didn\u2019t really mean, and never intended to live up to,\u201d Gaetz said.<\/p>\n

He said McCarthy hasn\u2019t fulfilled promises to conservatives he made earlier this year in a gruelling effort to gain the speakership, including cutting debt.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, many Republicans muttered unprintable things about Gaetz, who is detested by many colleagues. They accuse him of lying about the events that led to this moment, and scoff that he\u2019s doing it to boost his own political profile.<\/p>\n

\u2018This institution will fail\u2019<\/h2>\n

One of many staunch conservatives who backed McCarthy warned that an ouster of the Speaker would make the chamber ungovernable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis institution will fail,\u201d said Thomas Massie of Kentucky.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that Massie is usually one of his party\u2019s most vigorous rebels, a thorn in the side of past leaders.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also impossible to assess this week\u2019s events without looking back at the trajectory of the last few years.\u00a0The story it tells is of a system cracking and of political institutions increasingly paralyzed by partisanship. Starting with the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

Consider this sequence of history-making, precedent-shattering events.<\/p>\n

In 2020, we witnessed an effort \u2014 the longest since 1876\u00a0\u2014\u00a0by a defeated presidential candidate, Donald Trump, to undo an election result.<\/p>\n

In 2021, there was the unprecedented spectacle of Jan. 6, the attack on the U.S. Capitol, an effort to stop the election certification.<\/p>\n

In 2022, after the midterm elections, Republicans won the House of Representatives but couldn\u2019t agree on a leader.<\/p>\n

There was the longest fight since 1855\u00a0to name a Speaker. That\u2019s when McCarthy finally gained the post after 15 rounds.<\/p>\n

Now, in 2023, McCarthy becomes\u00a0the first Speaker stripped of power, ever. In fact, he was the first Speaker to even face a removal vote since 1910.<\/p>\n

Past\u00a0Speaker spats<\/h2>\n

Flashback to 113 years ago: Republicans came close to ousting their leader, a decades-long veteran of the institution, Joseph Cannon, who\u00a0represented the party\u2019s traditional pro-business wing, and faced a rebellion from members of his party\u2019s ascendant populist wing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe real truth is that there is no coherent Republican majority in the House of Representatives,\u201d Cannon told the chamber, drawing applause from critics on his own side.<\/p>\n

But he won the subsequent vote. An office building next to the Capitol is now named after him.<\/p>\n

These days, Republican leaders are less durable.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Paul Ryan cut short a once-bright political career after a brief stint as Speaker. Before him, John Boehner resigned in 2015, amid a rebellion from his own side.<\/p>\n

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Boehner\u2019s memoirs are dripping with disdain for these lawmakers, people he says have no interest in achieving practical goals, like attainable budget cuts, but who push maximalist, uncompromising positions in order to become cable TV stars.<\/p>\n

His book refers to \u201cknuckleheads,\u201d \u201clunatics,\u201d and \u201ccrazies,\u201d\u00a0people he said\u00a0would block everything and claim it was out of principle, but were in reality\u00a0attention-seeking phonies.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of these guys weren\u2019t about principles. They were about chaos and power,\u201d Boehner wrote, adding:\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong \u2014 the Democrats are far from guilt free in all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, Democrats decided not to spare any votes to save McCarthy, who has infuriated them, both by reneging on a previous budget deal, and by launching an impeachment hearing into\u00a0Biden.<\/p>\n

Gaetz won his showdown.<\/p>\n

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What he insists he wants is deeper budget cuts \u2014\u00a0to attack the soaring\u00a0$33 trillion US national debt, and to end funding for\u00a0Ukraine.<\/p>\n

What Gaetz is reportedly\u00a0interested in: moving back to Florida, and winning the Republican nomination to become the next governor.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s now more famous than ever.<\/p>\n

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