I'm not going to get through the show without using the word cluster fuck. I apologize.

That's fine. I'm not going to be here. Okay okay I just want to make it clear John before we actually begin that I was hoping to avoid using the word cluster fuck but we're probably going to use the word cluster fuck I'm just and I'm

warning the audience as as well hey welcome to the Bullwork podcast I'm Charlie

Sykes it is October 20th 2023 and I confess that I am actually even though I do this for a living I'm running

out of words to describe the goat rodeo of the Republicans in the House of

Representatives so I actually was sort of like going through my file this morning, you know,

Omni shambles fubar quagmire snafu, goat rope,

massicry shitstorm hot mess train wreck shipwreck imbrolio

you pronounce that way fowl up fizzle, snafu.

John, I need a wordsmith like you to help me to describe how absolutely mind-bogglingly what this whole Jim Jordan fiasco is.

I mean you need a bigger the SARS, Charlie, you need a bigger the SARS. This is a self-inflicted

shitstorm that doesn't only reflect on the Republican Party,

although it's a Republican Party problem. But it reflects on our

democracy. I mean this is Congress can't get itself organized because the

Republican Party created this problem and continues to light itself on fire.

So I'll go goat rodeer or a shouldstorm. Other one you want.

Okay so today this will take place

before people actually hear this podcast. Jim Jordan is going to the floor or

allegedly going to the floor for a third vote to see whether he succeeded in coercing, intimidating,

and bullying enough of the squishes to vote for him.

Spoiler alert, I think that's very, very unlikely.

And he started the day with this very strange press conference.

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