Before We Join Congress, Still Not In Progress…

Watching @RepMTG try to wheedle her way into the GOP establishment is like watching a chicken trying to play Tic-Tac-Toe.

— Jay Bookman (@jaysbookman) January 4, 2023

This is the best season of cspan…ever.

— Jon Stewart (@jonstewart) January 4, 2023

Hey Ronny, how’s it going? https://t.co/miaTMSDhvM

— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) January 4, 2023

When they get around to reading the Constitution, who gets to read Art. I, Sec. 5?

The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

Also worth noting:

Of the 14 prior instances in which it took multiple ballots to elect a Speaker of the House, eight made it past the sixth ballot; only four made it past the 12th:https://t.co/oGNl8ox4iy

(And only *one* post-dated the Civil War and the emergence of the modern party system): pic.twitter.com/nNyLa1R0rK

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 4, 2023

We’re seeing history being made (almost as bad as watching sausage be made). And yes, I take this as another sign at least one political party in America is dead.

Exhibit A:

Inbox: McCarthy-aligned CLF and the Club for Growth-which hasn’t supported McCarthy for speaker-are out with a joint statement backing McCarthy before the House convenes at 8 pic.twitter.com/9R3nntwjPQ

— Kirk A. Bado (@kirk_bado) January 5, 2023

Yeah. Like Trump’s endorsement, that meant bupkis:

WASHINGTON (AP) — House adjourns for 2nd day without a speaker after Kevin McCarthy fails to win enough Republican support.

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 5, 2023

Doesn’t matter. It’s clowns all the way down.

Notably, Rep-elect @RepChipRoy can’t tell @BretBaier whether the man he nominated for speaker, @ByronDonalds, has agreed to HFC’s demands for Speaker. “We’re having those discussions,” he says.

— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) January 4, 2023

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