GOP House speaker debacle continues as Kevin McCarthy fails to secure role for third day

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Republicans find themselves in serious stalemate after eleven unsuccessful votes in three days

to choose a Speaker of the U.S. House, frustrated Fox News host Sean Hannity brought Colorado conspiracy theorist and representative-elect Lauren Boebert onto his show.

Indeed, before the House adjourned just after 8 p.m. Thursday, the third day of voting brought not a single new vote to Mr. McCarthy, who remains well over a dozen shy of what is needed. It had score-keeping, with the failed 11th vote bringing the current impasse into a tie as the fifth-longest attempt in U.S. history to secure a Speaker.

It had family crises, with one Republican representative unable to meet a new child as voting continued and another worried about missing his mother’s funeral if the impasse is not resolved. A third had to leave for medical reasons. That included an animated encounter between Mr. McCarthy and Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican who has been one of the holdouts. Their words weren’t audible, but their body language told the story of the day, with Mr. Ogles seated as Mr. McCarthy stood, leaning in and slapping the holdout on the lapel in an apparent attempt to persuade him to revise his position.

 

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Has anyone got the spreadsheet of what McCarthy has promised to people? I kinda want to have it laid out (and ideally confirmed) just how much he has given away to still be losing this hard. It would just take six GOP to end it by going with the Democrat choice.

There is a phrase in a Frank Sinatra song 'Where are the clowns?' Now we know the answer!

Debacle. Hilarious.

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