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11:25 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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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
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 …
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 …
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.
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
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 …
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Kevin McCarthy's Loyalty to Trump Got Him Nothing
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Trump calls for all Republicans to back McCarthy for Speaker
Erin Doherty / Axios:
What happens if there's no House speaker
Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's Chaos Caucus Returns
Discussion: Fox News
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The humiliation of Kevin McCarthy
Discussion: ABC News, Vox and The Hill
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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Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report:
How we dodged a bullet with the exposé of George Santos
Discussion: The Guardian, Slate and Rolling Stone
Alex Wagner Tonight / MSNBC:
AOC: Up to McCarthy whether he wants to approach Democrats to save his speakership  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talks with Alex Wagner about the historic facture preventing the Republican Party from choosing a House speaker, and the likelihood that Kevin McCarthy could reach …
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
What Matt Gaetz and AOC Talked About During Kevin McCarthy's Speaker Vote
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
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
New Congresswoman Fights Rival Over Witchcraft Accusation  —  Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is demanding a retraction and apology for claims aired on the Bubba the Love Sponge radio show. … Rep. Anna Paulina Luna came to Congress on her first day in office ready to do battle—not just with Democrats …
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 …
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.
Discussion: New York Times
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
 
 
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