@BlueWave_Surfer@mastodon.social of course it works that way. It's written right there in the rules that govern the selection of a speaker.
Democrats voted with the Republican nut jobs to to kick out McCarthy and then declined to support any electable moderate candidate, setting the stage for this election through their voting strategy.
So the whole House elected this guy and maybe if we held Democratic representatives more accountable for their actions we would have had a better result.
So long as we let them off the hook, well, we got the government we were voting for.