It's Tuesday, October 31st, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

Well, as you know, as of the last few days, the United States House of Representatives

has a speaker.

That speaker is Congressman Mike Johnson of Louisiana.

But the interesting thing for us to watch right now is that there are many people who believe

that the House not only has a speaker, but that it has an extremist, a dangerous man,

a representative of the radical right.

And so once again, listeners to The Briefing, we're going to be looking at two different,

but inextricably linked questions.

Number one, what happened?

And number two, what does it tell us that people are talking in a certain way about

it?

So we think about what happened the event.

In this case, the election of the speaker of the House, and that means Mike Johnson is

the speaker of the House, and then secondly, what are they saying about it?

Or in this specific case, who's in panic about it?

So who's in panic?

Well, for one thing, Paul Krugman of The New York Times, he ran a piece just over the

weekend with the headline, the GOP, meaning the Republicans goes full on extremist.

Now let's understand that Paul Krugman is a man of the left, and so decidedly of the

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