Capitol Hill deadlock shows Republican moderates can bite back

Want to know the newest definition of insanity? It’s holding a vote again and again and expecting the results to be any different.

Or that, at least, is the case on Capitol Hill where on Wednesday Jim Jordan failed yet again in his bid to become Speaker of the House. This happened just days after Steve Scalise dropped out of the race upon failing to win enough votes to become the Speaker of the House, weeks after the former Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, failed to be re-elected as Speaker of the House, after being kicked out of the office he inherited after being narrowly elected as Speaker of the House back in January…

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