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Ron Elving

McCarthy's fall marks new low in the speakership's declining status

Kevin McCarthy of Calif., then the newly elected speaker of the House, picks up the gavel as he begins to speak in the House chamber on Jan. 7. (Alex Brandon/AP)

The fall of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is surely historic, deserving of both the obsessive media attention and the doleful warnings it has spawned.

Shocking as this week's vote was, we should have been better prepared for it.

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