CLR Show 1823. Air Date May 30, 2023.  Faced with the first real governance challenge of his tenure as Speaker, Kevin McCarthy has actually chosen the path of rationality and compromise, choosing not only to raise the debt ceiling, but praising the presidential/democratic negotiators he has dealt with. The crazies will undoubtedly react. But has the vulnerability of the far right to unavoidable rationality finally been exposed? And to what end in the presidential sweepstakes? Stay tuned.