The Welcome to the Charles C. W. Cook podcast episode 13. the

unlucky unlucky one.

Happy New Year.

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podcast which is at podcast dot Charles c WW. Cook.com. Now there is drama today in Washington, D.C. As I speak, the House of Representatives remains unable to choose a speaker of the House.

The presumed shoe-in for that role, Kevin McCarthy, who was so confident that he'd be elected that he

actually moved into the office, has faced much stiffer than expected resistance from a group of around 20 Republicans who have now refused to give him the job I think six times.

And for what I can see, this group of 20 is being guided by a heady combination of lofty goals and cynically self-interested goals, but whatever their motivation,

they have managed to grind things to a halt.

And you know what?

That's fine.

Personally, I don't think it matters that much, who is the speaker of the house.

What matters is how many members of each party there are and what those members believe.

Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan, pick anyone.

And the fundamentals will not change much.

If I were in the house, God forbid,

I'd probably back McCarthy and get on with it.

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