The holdouts blocking Kevin McCarthy's path to Speaker don't seem ready to bend, unlike McCarthy, who has proven to be pliable, writes Philip_Elliott
only after 133 votes cast over two months, and even then only with a rule change that allowed for a candidate to claim victory with a plurality of votes after four more inconclusive votes. The final Speaker selected before the start of the Civil War, New Jersey Rep. William Pennington, took 44 rounds of votes in 1859.)
This history, of course, is no consolation to McCarthy, who has long dreamed of wielding power over the House, sitting behind a President during a State of the Union, and beingonly to the Vice President in the line of succession to the Oval Office.
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