Republicans finally get their speaker, Trump faces his fixer, and memories of what happens when you cross your party.

We've crossed the River Jordan on the political junkie.

You like Ike, I like like, everybody likes I for president.

Add light to you, and think to me, I don't care how you quoted.

Come on and vote for Kennedy, vote for Kennedy, and we'll come out on top.

Vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, because they're the ones to lead the USA.

Thanks for joining us, and welcome to episode 404 of the political junkie. I'm Ken Rudin.

The sideshow of the House of Representatives is finally over. After ousting Kevin McCarthy,

ignoring Steve Scalise, embarrassing Jim Jordan, and dismissing Tom Emmer, Republicans have, with not a single

dissenting vote, rallied behind four-term Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson, and he is, at last,

the Speaker of the House.

The Honorable Mike Johnson of the state of Louisiana has received 220 votes.

And the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries at the state of New York has received 209 votes. Therefore, the Honorable

Mike Johnson of the state of Louisiana, having received a majority of the votes cast,

is duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 118th Congress.

After more than three weeks of disunity, bitterness, and circular firing squads,

the GOP on Tuesday nominated Johnson and, one day later, got him confirmed.

The previous nominee, Tom Emmer of Minnesota, decided not to even go for a vote

once Donald Trump said he was unacceptable. Emmer's withdrawal satisfied Trump, who took full credit.

I absolutely must have had an impact because as soon as I did the unendorsement, and it was never

an endorsement. I was never treated particularly well by him, as you probably have heard, and he was at MAGA.

Most people are MAGA and the Republican Party.

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