It was inevitable that when the Republican Conference finally settled on a nominee for House Speaker who could garner enough floor votes to win the gavel, the corporate media would portray him as an extremist. Imagine, then, the sheer glee…
The first thing Mike Johnson did upon being elected speaker of the House was extend an olive branch to Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Johnson began his first speech to the House by looking Jeffries in the eye and uttering these…
It might have been embarrassing, and it might have given the enemies in the political class ample opportunities to snicker and hurl insults. But at the end of the day, the result reached when Mike Johnson won a 220–209 vote…
After 21 days of deliberation and hours of closed-door meetings and elections, the House of Representatives has finally chosen Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) to be its next speaker. On Wednesday afternoon, Johnson, who served as a deputy whip and sits…
As the news emerges that Rep. Tom Emmer appears to have received the votes to be the GOP nominee for House Speaker, former President Donald Trump has issued the following statement. It is being published here verbatim: I have many…
Do you want the speaker of the House to speak, or do you want the speaker of the House to herd cats? If it’s the latter, and it usually is, a congressman in his second term seems like the wrong…
There is an element in the Republican Party that is completely at peace with losing elections. All of them: Races for the White House. Congress. The speakership. You name it. Even when party leaders win, they find a way to…
Co-host Scott McKay is a happy camper in this week’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, as Saturday’s primary elections in Louisiana were a total wipeout of the Bayou State’s Democrats. He’s happy to tell you all about it as co-host…
Speaker TK, otherwise known as Speaker Nemo or Speaker Speechless, ranks among the greatest to preside over the House of Representatives in his/her/their short tenure that began on Oct. 3. That the recent holders of that office include a child…
