House Speaker McCarthy, in thrall to Republican lunatic extremists who are willing to sabotage anything and everything to any helpful government policies they can get their hands on, is desperately trying to remain in the office of speaker by obeying their impossible demands.

The result of this is that he is losing what little shreds of honor and political respect remain to him. How foolish that is. If he resigns now and consigns the lunatics to hell, he may be unable to remain as speaker but he will salvage some respectability.

The lunatics of SCROTUS will look for another Republican willing to dangle on their strings to be a puppet "speaker". But the rest of the Republicans might decide to make a deal with Democrats on a bipartisan House leadership that would adopt compromise policies. I expect that sooner or later they will decide to climb out of the lunatics' vice.