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12:05 PM ET, January 4, 2023

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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 …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Mediaite
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: The Nation, ABC News, Vox and The Hill
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.
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
Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's Chaos Caucus Returns  —  A rump faction blocks McCarthy's Speaker bid, and for what?  —  By The Editorial Board  —  WSJ Opinion: Congress Is Now Officially Divided  —  YOU MAY ALSO LIKE  —  Created with sketchtool.  —  1x  —  House Republicans say they want to drain …
Discussion: Fox News
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: Raw Story and Mediaite
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:
Biden world both humored and terrified by McCarthy meltdown  —  Staff throughout the West Wing wouldn't cop to watching live coverage of Rep. Kevin McCarthy failing to get enough votes to become speaker of the House.  But, to a person, they were more than aware of the fiasco that was unfolding …
Houston Keene / Fox News:
Matt Gaetz responds after Trump urges support for McCarthy: ‘Sad!’
New York Times:
How Far Right Are the 20 Republicans Who Voted Against McCarthy
Tara Palmeri / Puck:
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Erin Doherty / Axios:
What happens if there's no House speaker
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Behind the Humiliation of Kevin McCarthy
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy wasn't ‘the one’ 7 years ago. He wasn't on Tuesday, either.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Kevin McCarthy's Loyalty to Trump Got Him Nothing
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
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.
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 …
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
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
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
 
 
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