In a one-year retrospective on the massive self-own that was the House Republican Caucus’s ouster of feckless and weak now-former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, NOTUS reports that members are still “emotionally recovering” from the shambolic three-week long clusterfuck that brought them Speaker Mike Johnson, summing it up with “The House looks a lot like it did before Matt Gaetz and seven other Republicans, alongside House Democrats, voted to remove McCarthy, although Republicans have fewer members than they did then,” because now-expelled-and-convicted-felon George Santos’s seat flipped Blue and Mike Gallagher resigned too late for a special election to be held.

“They took an entire branch of government offline for three weeks, when we had two wars raging overseas,” said Pennsylvania “moderate” Brian Fitzpatrick “It was a very dark day in American history,” he added, even if it wasn’t dark enough for him to quit his shitshow of a party in disgust.

“There are many tragedies of the McCarthy ouster,” South Dakotan Dusty Johnson said. “But I think the eight renegades who ousted him have to acknowledge that they didn’t fundamentally change anything about the House.” Lame duck Virginian Bob Good, the only one of the “renegades” to be successfully ousted in a primary during McCarthy’s “revenge tour” (and even then it was mostly Trump’s revenge over Good originally endorsing Ron DeSantis’s failed presidential bid) agreed, lol.

“No,” Good said when asked if Mike Johnsons had done a decent enough job. “Speaker Johnson’s positions have changed on many things since he became speaker. He used to be against funding for Ukraine. He said we would use that as leverage to obtain border security. Not only did we not use it as leverage for border security, he’s supported more funding for Ukraine. He used to support a warrant requirement for FISA, and he changed his position on that,” Good continued crying.

Another “moderate,” Mike Lawler, called the ouster the “the single stupidest thing I’ve ever seen” in the “history of politics.” Ohioan former Trump White House aide Max Miller agreed. “It was one of the worst things that had ever happened in congressional history. Those eight people who voted to remove Speaker McCarthy put themselves before the country, and we’re still dealing with the ramifications of that. They’re horrible humans,” Miller, a pretty horrible human himself, complained.