{"id":975811,"date":"2023-01-31T06:20:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T06:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=272872"},"modified":"2023-01-31T06:20:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T06:20:55","slug":"mccarthys-15-round-victory-capitalisms-politicians-perform-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/31\/mccarthys-15-round-victory-capitalisms-politicians-perform-in-public\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy\u2019s 15-Round Victory: Capitalism\u2019s Politicians Perform in Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 15 raucous votes spanning almost two weeks, Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy, R-California, was elected House Speaker on January 7. The vote was 216-212, a party-line vote with six Republicans voting present. From the beginning, former President Donald Trump pressured his 20 super-supporters, mostly in the Republicans\u2019 \u201crightwing\u201d Freedom Caucus, to back McCarthy. They refused  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/31\/mccarthys-15-round-victory-capitalisms-politicians-perform-in-public\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/31\/mccarthys-15-round-victory-capitalisms-politicians-perform-in-public\/\">McCarthy\u2019s 15-Round Victory: Capitalism\u2019s Politicians Perform in Public<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/31\/mccarthys-15-round-victory-capitalisms-politicians-perform-in-public\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 15 raucous votes spanning almost two weeks, Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy, R-California, was elected House Speaker on January 7. The vote was 216-212, a party-line vote with six Republicans voting present. From the beginning, former Presi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975812,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975811\/revisions\/975812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}