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10:35 AM ET, January 4, 2023

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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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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 …
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
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 …
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Trump Begs House Republicans to Back Kevin McCarthy's Speakership Bid  —  ‘CLOSE THE DEAL’  —  With House Republicans divided on their choice of a new speaker, Donald Trump has issued a trademark upper-case screed calling for them to rally behind Rep. Kevin McCarthy, who failed to secure the gavel after three ballots on Tuesday.
Punchbowl News:
1/4/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM … THE HOUSE WILL GAVEL IN AT NOON.  IF THERE'S BEEN PROGRESS TOWARD A DEAL, GOP LEADERS WILL MOVE FOR ANOTHER VOTE FOR SPEAKER.  IF NOT, THEY WILL NEED TO TRY TO ADJOURN AGAIN UNTIL LATER IN THE DAY OR EVEN THURSDAY.
Tara Palmeri / Puck:
We Need to Talk About Kevin  —  News and notes on the local political tragedy under the dome.  —  Yes, it was supposed to be bad for Kevin McCarthy, but not this bad.  —  As anyone who has been reading my dispatches since September well knows, McCarthy's speakership only ever seemed fully …
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Kevin McCarthy's Loyalty to Trump Got Him Nothing  —  High-level politics is fundamentally about dealmaking.  You can't succeed as anything more than a back-bencher if you aren't willing to make a deal with almost anyone on almost anything.  In Faust, a deal with the devil is fatal; on Capitol Hill, it's how you survive.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Hill, RedState, Mediaite and Raw Story
NBC News:
Kevin McCarthy's bid for House speaker: Live updates  —  For the first time in more than a century, the House was unable to elect a speaker after three ballots.  The chamber adjourned until Wednesday at noon. … Rep.-elect Robert Garcia, D-Calif., whose swearing in to Congress …
Erin Doherty / Axios:
What happens if there's no House speaker
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The humiliation of Kevin McCarthy
Discussion: ABC News, Vox and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's Chaos Caucus Returns
Discussion: Fox News
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Whoever the next GOP speaker is, the job will be a living hell
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
What Matt Gaetz and AOC Talked About During Kevin McCarthy's Speaker Vote
Cheryl Teh / Insider:
Matt Gaetz is accusing Kevin McCarthy of squatting in the speaker's office before he's even got the job
Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy faces open GOP revolt as House fails to elect speaker
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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Representative George Santos:
Taking the Oath of Office  —  Swearing in as Member of the 118th Congress  —  U.S. Representative George Santos was sworn in as a Member of the United States House of Representatives by the Speaker of the House on January 3rd, 2023.  —  The Honorable George Santos was elected to serve …
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Walter Cunningham, Last Surviving Apollo 7 Astronaut, Dies at 90  —  Walter Cunningham spent 11 days in low-Earth orbit in 1968.  —  Walter Cunningham, a retired astronaut who served as a pilot on the first successful crewed mission in NASA's Apollo program, died in Houston on Tuesday, the space agency confirmed.
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump's offensive against Ruby Freeman reaches an ugly new level  —  As Donald Trump renews his offensive against an innocent election worker in Georgia, remember that his own team told him these claims weren't true.  —  Around midnight last night, for reasons that aren't yet clear …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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.
Discussion: Mississippi Today
tlgrm.eu:
MoD Russia  —  ⚡️ On 1 January, at 00.01 am (Moscow time), artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched six rockets by HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS) at the provisional base of one of the Russian units near Makeyevka.  ◽️ 2 rockets were intercepted by air defence facilities.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
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.
Discussion: Sensible Medicine
Sarah Jones / PoliticusUSA:
Sean Hannity Warns that Republicans Are On Verge of Becoming a Total Clown Show  —  Sean Hannity had a brief moment in reality Tuesday night, in which he admitted that House Republicans are on the verge of becoming a total clown show.  —  “It is day one of the 188 Congress (sic*) …
 
 
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Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report:
How we dodged a bullet with the exposé of George Santos
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Joe Heim / Washington Post:
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Kate Ackley / Roll Call:
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NY Times and WaPo Continue Smear Campaign Against Orthodox Jews As Antisemitic Hate Crimes Surge
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