Somehow, someway, the vote for House Speaker kept becoming more and more of a debacle this week.

We wrote about it after six failed votes for Republican nominee Kevin McCarthy, and yet that proved to be nowhere near the end of the road. A bloc of rightwing — further rightwing, that is — representatives were steadfast in their push to deny McCarthy the Speaker role in the House. Come Friday afternoon, when this story was written, there had been a total of 13 ballots, and McCarthy still...

Continue Reading 11 best tweets of the week Kevin McCarthy failed over and over