McCarthy now knows he cannot use the same old excuses for running business as usual. He didn’t keep his promises, the ones he made to get the job. That is non performance in any business contract. He would be fired if he was a house builder, or engineering firm, etc...
The problem will be to get someone astute enough to navigate the byzantine House, but push through real good change. Borders, crime, inflation, trans-insanity....anti business, getting climate change lunacy (while letting the Russians and Chinese, and Indians do what they want) out of there...
If he starts supporting those initiatives, he would win back some credibility...but he will need a real turnabout...to many golden parachutes for these legislators....
it may be that liberal republicans, in order to punish Gaetz, will collude with the Dems and put in a liberal Republican, like they do every session in Texas. I’d wager there are ten Republicans dying to pick a speaker alongside the Dems.