Going forward, adult supervision badly needed for House GOP

Sometimes you can see an outcome from a mile away, and it’s still a shock when it happens. So it was when a sliver of the House GOP succeeded in removing Kevin McCarthy as speaker, the first time in American history the leader of the U.S. House has been ousted. His standing seemed precarious from the start in January, when it took 15 votes from his GOP colleagues to secure the number needed for the prize. With members such as Florida’s Matt Gaetz and Colorado’s Lauren Boebert seemingly interested more in preening for their Trumpian base than cutting legislative deals, it seemed just a matter o...