“Today we saw a party more dysfunctional – more beholden to radical and chaotic forces than, recent and not so recent memory will recall. Thanks to a small number of MAGA doctrinaires, we saw a spectacle worthy of shame and reproach. Across the aisle – poised with assurance and leadership stood House Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Rep Jeffries and his party stood in striking contrast with the dysfunctional circus tenuously lead by McCarthy, who now presides with a one member snap vote to call for removal hanging over him. The session ahead will surely be a wild one, but I place my full trust in Brooklyn’s Jefferies who will undoubtedly lead a strong and effective democratic front in the months ahead”