On the first ballot, Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Michael Cloud (R-TX), Andrew Clyde (R-GA), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Andy Harris (R-MD) and Chip Roy...

Trump And Musk Are Threatening Primaries Against Anyone Who Acts Up Trump told the House he wants puppet MAGA Mike back as speaker. That...

"Central Casting" by Nancy Ohanian Towards the end of this fart-fest of wishful thinking and litany of of typical Trumpian lies about his...

If The Impasse Lasts Long Enough, Trump Couldn't Be Sworn In... This Senile Fella Would Be: Yesterday I spent a long time on the phone...

Only 15 Incumbents Were Defeated But There Are 61 New Members MAGA Mike’s position is precarious. Whether he remains speaker or not is...

When Will Co-Pres. Musk Decide Who The Next Speaker Will Be? The election for Speaker is on January 3— two weeks from today. Because of...

And Poor MAGA Mike Gets Publicly Castrated It’s hard to imagine any Republican senators other than Murkowski and maybe Collins (plus...

There Will Always Be Republicans Who Want To Shut Down The Government I suspect if there was a secret vote in the House GOP Conference to...

Is He As Bad As Marjorie Traitor Greene, Boebert, Gaetz? Very far right Tennessee aggressive malcontent, Christian nationalist and senile...

Trump Has Wrecked The GOP Entirely According to Forbes, conservative Democrat Dean Phillips (New Dem-MN), heir to the Phillips Distilling...

Exactly 3 weeks to the day in the chaotic GOP speaker-less dysfunctional House… the kind of nihilism that Trump thrives on. From Trump’s...

The Media Is Hushing Up Emmer's Crypto-Corruption On Friday, when McCarthy was asked by a CNN reporter if the GOP conference is “broken,”...

Everyone in Washington pretty much thinks of Nancy Mace (R-SC) the same way— an opportunistic careerist, unanchored by any semblance of...

Last night, Jake Sherman, John Bresnahan and Mica Soellner brought everybody up to date on the GOP speaker catastrophe, reporting, for...

by Noah We don't know exactly how the naming of a new speaker will run its course. Just as I sat down to write this, the plan to have...

Does He Really Think He Can Wear Down The Opposition? Gym Jordan’s colleagues turned him down again. Yesterday, on ballot #2 he did even...

Last Sunday, when Jake Tapper asked Texas Republican Dan Crenshaw— who wasn’t one of the 139 House Republicans who tried to overturn the...

Hours before the balloting started yesterday, Jamelle Bouie wrote that “Even some of the Republicans who have vowed, publicly and...

Ready For Speaker Jordan? As part of his… um, charm offensive, Gym Jordan promised a handful of Republicans who were reluctant to vote...

Is A Bipartisan House A Real Option? Brent Larkin was editorial director of the Cleveland Plain Dealer from 1991 until he retired in...