Scott McKay and Melissa Mackenzie discuss only good news in this episode of The Spectacle. They discuss the new rules in the GOP-run House, positive data on the COVID front, and more. Share your thoughts in the comments below. Listen…
Newly elected Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was crystal clear after his 15-ballot election win. National Review reported: “I do want to especially thank President Trump,” McCarthy told reporters. “I don’t think anybody should doubt his influence. He was…
The coverage of Rep. Richard Hudson needing to restrain Rep. Mike Rogers to prevent him from attacking Rep. Matt Gaetz missed something, namely, what happened. If you watch the video, Rogers approaches Gaetz and his words appear heated. But not…
Hakeem Jeffries introduced himself to a national audience, albeit one in primetime in Hawaii, in a classless way. After a week of waiting, Jeffries made everyone wait longer so that he could make a partisan speech when the moment called…
California Republican Kevin McCarthy was finally elected Speaker of the House on the fifteenth ballot Friday night after days of begging, threatening, and compromising with other Republicans. This column has never been an advocate of McCarthy because he has never…
Hopefully, it will prove easier for House Republicans to govern than it has been for them to elect a speaker. There is good reason for such hope because the enemy no longer will be Kevin McCarthy and the Ghosts of…
After Republicans clinched their narrower-than-expected new House majority in November’s midterm elections, the only relevant questions for Congress-watchers seemed to pertain to what Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) impending House speakership would look like. To what extent, if any, would he…
The last quarter-century has witnessed three impeachments of two presidents, the greatest upset in presidential election history, parity unseen in Congress in almost a century, brinkmanship in the Senate that shifted the balance of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first…
Ballot after ballot in the House of Representatives has failed to produce a speaker. That’s the lead topic in the today’s episode of The Spectacle, the official podcast of The American Spectator. Your hosts, Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay, will…
