Interesting you mention the “defeated” West for Speaker.
The constitution doesn’t say the Speaker has to be a member.
There was talk among the democrats of making some non member the Speaker or suggesting a member retire but become Speaker anyway or something stupid like that.
If they’d put him there, I’d know they were interested in actually beating these f***ing commie pukes back into the stone age.
However, as it stands, they’re perfectly willing to go along with the Dems, and that makes them just as bad.
Actually, it makes them worse. They COULD do something to oppose them, but they choose to be complicit asswipes.