Today is Thursday, January 5, 2023. As of now, Kevin McCarthy in his desperate attempt to be Speaker of the House has suffered 11 votes in the House with no majority of Congresspersons voting for his speakership. The scene in the House has become quite farcical with the deadlock over voting for a speaker. The Republican Party is a party in ruin, so states Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal to Lawrence O’Donnell on his show tonight. She contrasted the chaos observed in repugnicians during this three-day spectacle with that of her party which voted as a bloc to nominate Hakeem Jeffries without any dissenters.

I personally think this unpopular man is as delusional as the former president when he said he felt good at the end of the day after losing a fucking 11 times in voice vote in the chamber. Maybe it’s time to move on, Kevin, and step aside for someone else to take the speaker’s gavel. So McCarthy failed again and again in an excruciating string of ballots to win enough GOP votes to seize the chamber’s gavel. By nightfall, despite raucous protests from Democrats, repugnicans voted to adjourn yet again and return Friday to try again. This is getting boring, people! An online article for the Associated Press by Lisa Mascaro and Farnoush Amiri entitled “McCarthy fails for 3rd long day in GOP House speaker fight” details the frustrating drama that went on in the House today.

There are real ramifications if this drama goes on for another day, and another day, and another day, and another day. . . The House cannot formally open for the new session of Congress until a speaker is appointed. This is done traditionally on the first day. During this long day, it was apparent that feelings of of boredom, desperation, and annoyance were increasingly evident among the members in the chamber.

Since I was out for most of the day (this is Elliot’s first day in California), I missed the fireworks when repugnant Matt Gaetz had the audacity to nominate the primary insurrectionist to be House speaker on the 11th ballot. The fucking NFT king got only one vote – from the Florida nutcase, Gaetz – which drew laughter in the chamber. Boy, has this ex-president hit bottom right now with his own revolting party with this absurd move on the part of the Grinch known as Gaetz. If we ever needed proof of Dumpf’s dawning unpopularity, this is definitely it!

At one point during the protracted session, Democrat Joe Neguse of Colorado stated, “This sacred House of Representatives needs a leader,” thus nominating his own party’s leader, Hakeem Jeffries, as leader.

McCarthy’s detractors belong to the crazy right-wing Freedom Caucus that is strongly aligned with Dumpf and is skeptical of McCarthy’s bona fides as a right-wing arsonist. He’s considered too wishy-washy for their tastes, it seems. The Representative who is the leader of the Freedom Caucus is Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), the leader of Dumpf’s failed efforts to challenge the 2020 presidential election, who has asserted that McCarthy cannot be trusted.

On the eve of the second anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, American democracy is still fragile as this fight to appoint a speaker of the House continues for yet another day.

Historically, the longest contest for the gavel started in late 1855 and dragged on for two months, with 133 ballots, during debates over slavery in the run-up to the Civil War. Let’s hope this current race for the speaker’s gavel doesn’t take as long as it did way back in 1855.

A second reminder: tomorrow marks two years since the January 6, 2021, revolt at the U.S. Capitol. It’s hard to believe that two years have elapsed since that infamous day and that the primary insurrectionist has not been held accountable for his treasonous actions on that day! Maybe this is the year something does happen finally in that regard.

Stay safe and be well.

Don’t you just love the Daily News headline from yesterday providing the truth of what is currently happening in Congress right now? It is a “GOP shit show,” folks, beyond any doubt!