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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Speaker Fight Reveals a Divided and Disoriented House Majority — In failing to coalesce around Kevin McCarthy for speaker, Republicans showcased divisions that portend real difficulties in governing. — WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Tuesday began their new majority rule with a chaotic …
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John F. Harris / Politico:
After Another Failed Vote, McCarthy's Speaker Bid Is Starting to Look Pathetic — Just two months ago, when Republicans underperformed historical trends in the midterm elections and a bunch of extremist candidates lost winnable races, the consensus view among many commentators …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
What the Speaker Fight Says about the Republican Party — On the menu today: The fight over whether Kevin McCarthy becomes the next speaker of the House continues, and after three failed votes yesterday, his prospects don't look great. The notion that 19 or 20 Republicans could force …
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Trump calls for all Republicans to back McCarthy for Speaker — Former President Trump called on House Republicans to unite behind House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) for the Speakership, announcing early Wednesday that he is standing by McCarthy despite opposition from some hard-line members of the party.
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez on conversations with Gosar, Gaetz: ‘In chaos, anything is possible’ — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday said, “In chaos, anything is possible,” after she was seen in floor conversations with GOP Reps. Paul Gosar (Ariz.) and Matt Gaetz (Fla.) during the vote for House Speaker.
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The humiliation of Kevin McCarthy — Post-policy Republicans prefer posturing and tormenting each other to governing. — Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy went down to humiliating defeat in his bid to take the speaker's gavel Tuesday. Not satisfied with that, he then went down to humiliating defeat again.
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Punchbowl News:
1/4/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM — The House in crisis January 4, 2023 BY PUNCHBOWL NEWS STAFF THE TOP Happy Wednesday morning. The House begins today in a state of crisis. A small but growing faction of House Republicans - 10% of the Republican conference …
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Houston Keene / Fox News:
Matt Gaetz responds after Trump urges support for McCarthy: ‘Sad!’ — Gaetz says Trump's endorsement of embattled Republican ‘change neither my view of McCarthy nor Trump nor my vote.’ — Newt Gingrich rips Republican holdouts as ‘blackmailers’: 'Don't know what their endgame is'
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: How long can McCarthy hang on? — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — So how does this end? And how long will it take to end it? — Those are the questions towering over the new House Republican majority …
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Matt Bai / Washington Post:
McCarthy is the last of three little pigs. He'd best start packing. — A decade ago, when John Boehner was speaker of the House, the knock on him among leading Republicans was that he didn't know how to corral votes. Boehner had taken an unconventional route to the speakership …
Brady Knox / Washington Examiner:
Karl Rove: House speaker saga is an ‘unmitigated disaster’ for Republicans — Former White House adviser Karl Rove predicted that the inability of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to secure the speakership is likely just the beginning of the chaos. — McCarthy's worst fears came true Tuesday …
Politico:
Biden world both humored and terrified by McCarthy meltdown
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New York Times:
How Far Right Are the 20 Republicans Who Voted Against McCarthy
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Tara Palmeri / Puck:
We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Erin Doherty / Axios:
What happens if there's no House speaker
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Behind the Humiliation of Kevin McCarthy
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy wasn't ‘the one’ 7 years ago. He wasn't on Tuesday, either.
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Whoever the next GOP speaker is, the job will be a living hell
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Washington Post:
George Santos had an awkward first day at the office — The New York Republican, accused of fabricating details of his biography, got a taste of scrutiny that comes with his new job — On Tuesday, looking very much like a freshman at a prep school in hell, congressman-elect George Santos wore …
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CNN:
Rep.-elect George Santos admitted to using stolen checks in Brazil in 2008, documents show
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Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report:
How we dodged a bullet with the exposé of George Santos
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Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Abortion Pills Can Now Be Offered at Retail Pharmacies, F.D.A. Says — Mifepristone, the first of two drugs in medication abortions, previously had to be dispensed only by clinics, doctors or a few mail-order pharmacies. Now, if local drugstores or chains like CVS agree to certain rules, they can provide it.
Lee Drutman / Undercurrent Events:
GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker — Plus, my take on Independent Sinema, and: why do we all feel like political losers these days? — Hello, and Happy New Year. It's 2023, and the Republican Party is in disarray.
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
No, Congress Doesn't Need More ‘Independents’ Like Sinema — Kyrsten Sinema believes that private-equity billionaires should pay a smaller income-tax rate than public-school teachers, that Medicare should not have broad authority to negotiate lower drug prices, and that America's corporations …
Pavel Polityuk / Reuters:
Ukraine says Russia plans new mobilisation to ‘turn tide of war’ — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia was planning to call up more troops for a major new offensive, even as Moscow was facing some of its biggest internal criticism of the war over a strike that killed scores of fresh conscripts.
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
‘Romeo and Juliet’ Stars Sue Paramount for Child Abuse Over Nude Scene in 1968 Film … Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting were just teenagers when they electrified audiences in the 1968 version of “Romeo and Juliet,” directed by Franco Zeffirelli. The film was a hit and was nominated …
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Sanjana Friedman / Pirate Wires:
Transmaxxing: the Incel-To-Transwoman Pipeline — why a community of depressed young men with nothing to lose is convinced the only way out of their misery is gender transition … Imagine you're a depressed young man in a developed country. Maybe you work long hours for low pay, maybe you're unemployed.
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Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Mississippi Health Care Faces ‘Looming Disaster,’ Medical Group Warns Lawmakers — Mississippi's healthcare crisis is worsening and an overhaul of the state's “current system of care is unmistakably essential,” a leading medical group warned hours before the State Legislature was set to begin its 2023 session at noon Monday.
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