Remember last week when I said the shutdown would only end one of three ways and two of them involved working McCarthy working with Democrats; which would lead to a revolt? Well, I may not comment on everything that might happen in Washington, but I feel like I have a pretty good track record when I do. Enough Republicans revolted against Speaker Kevin McCarthy to force a vote to vacate and, without any Democrats voting for McCarthy, the Speaker of the House was ousted and the House of Representatives is deadlocked until Republicans can decide on a new Speaker of the House.

Kevin McCarthy is a patriot. I know that's controversial to say, but when eight Republicans threatened to shut down the entire government, he put the country first and got something temporary passed that would get us through November. That's not the popular thing to do. Given the circumstances, I'm not sure I would have made that same decision if I were the Speaker of the House; but it's what he thought was best for the country. Thankfully, most Republicans in the House of Representatives seemed to agree with him. Unfortunately, it was not enough Republicans to defeat the vote to oust McCarthy as Speaker of the House.

In typical forked tongue Democrat fashion, the Democrat leader in the House, Hakeem Jeffries, told his colleagues that he wants to find bi-partisan opportunities to work with Republicans... but he won't be providing the votes needed to keep Kevin McCarty the speaker of the House. Historically speaking, Kevin McCarthy was probably the speaker most willing to work across the aisle since Tom Foley in the early 1990s or maybe even Tip O'Neill in the 1970s and 80s. If Jefferies was seriously interested in working with Republicans, he would have allowed Democrats to at least vote how they wanted and save McCarthy in the process. Instead, not a single Democrat voted to retain McCarthy as speaker. Now, the Republicans are likely going to elect a new speaker far enough to the right to appease the far right Republicans who started this revolt because of McCarthy's bipartisan guesture to stop a government shutdown.

At the very least, the lesson to future Republican leaders is clear: Don't work with Democrats.

With that knowledge firmly in place, a government shutdown in November seems inevitable.