The future of training is happening today, in the metaverse. “House Republicans Upbeat After Speaker Candidates Make Pitches,” WSJ Related reads: “Congress officially avoided a shutdown - but GOP hardliners still caused one,” by Burgess Everett and Sarah Ferris.

It may be that unity won’t come until there’s enough rounds of bloodletting that everyone feels they have been able to exact some revenge on an enemy - sort of like a House version of the movie “The Purge,” where an orgy of violence is allowed for 12 hours.Įveryone gets it out of their system and then everything returns to “normal,” though things are never quite the same. McCarthy, McCarthy knifing Scalise, the anti-Jordan rump voting to avenge how Scalise was treated, everything NANCY MACE does). These elections over the last three weeks have been defined as much or more by personal grievance ( MATT GAETZ vs. STEVE BANNON has (predictably) launched a “stop Emmer” campaign because he wants the entire GOP leadership “decapitated,” per this piece from NYT’s Luke Broadwater dissecting the House Republican factions (and “factions within the factions”).īut ideology is only one part of the infighting. moderates framing that is polarizing House Republicans and conservative media into competing camps. Like his predecessors, TOM EMMER, the leading candidate in the current crop, is being defined by a MAGA vs. There’s no reason, other than sheer fatigue, to think that the newest speaker designate is likely to fare any better than the ousted or sidelined KEVIN McCARTHY, STEVE SCALISE or JIM JORDAN. Someone will emerge from the rounds of secret-ballot voting today. “‘I want to know, which one of you have the balls to hold them accountable?’ Greene asked the speaker candidates inside the room, according to a source familiar with her remarks.” MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-Ga.), for example, asked each contender about whether they would conduct intense oversight of Homeland Security Secretary ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS and Attorney General MERRICK GARLAND - the latter over his handling of detainees from the Jan. If you want a sense of how Monday evening’s two-and–half-hour candidate forum went, this scene via Jordain Carney, Olivia Beavers, and Daniella Diaz gives you a taste:

DAN MEUSER (R-Pa.) dropped out last night before most people even learned how to pronounce his last name.

They are down to eight candidates after Rep. | Francis Chung/POLITICOĭAY 21 - House Republicans will once again gather this morning behind closed doors to pick a speaker. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) arrives for a House Speaker candidate forum on Capitol Hill on Oct.

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