@LiberalLibrarian: TBF, however unfashionable that is to be towards McCarthy, i.e., the guy who sold what soul he had left, both entirely out of his element as Speaker to a slimmish majority and the Q crowd wagging the dog, when it came down to it, he really didn't want a government shutdown or to be the historic Speaker who defaulted the United States federal government and triggered a Very Bad World Economy.
He wound up blinking and stopping, like the 1/6 protestors who didn't raid the...