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Today we're going to talk about the continued dysfunction in the house, as we're now more than three weeks without a speaker,

and the Republicans' brilliant new plan to finally bring the conference together.

And I interview Congressman Jamie Raskin about his response to Republican claims that it's all the Democrats fault,

his prediction as to how this drama will finally end, and his reaction to some more smoking gun evidence against Joe Biden that's just come out.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

We're back to square one in the house after three votes were Jim Jordan not only failed to get the votes necessary to become speaker,

but actually went backwards on all three ballots.

And so now we've got a new flood of apparently self-hating Republicans who are coming forward to hold the job so horrible,

Mike Rowe wouldn't even touch it.

But here's a fun new twist. This is according to Politico, we've now got a Unity pledge.

That's right, Unity pledges are back.

Republicans are now passing around a promise to quote,

support the speaker designate duly elected by the Republican House Conference, regardless of who that candidate is,

when their election proceeds to the House floor, further, I pledge the vote for the speaker designate on the House floor

for as long as they remain the speaker designate.

Here's the thing, these pledges are so funny because they are clearly the last grasps of some dwindling faction of like quasi-moderate Republicans

who think that the extremists, who they've emboldened these last few years by capitulating at every turn,

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