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If any one day in my lifetime changed Americas politics for the worse, it was 25 years ago on Jan. 17, 1998, when President Bill Clinton first lied under oath about his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene went from being an accused insurrectionist stripped of committee assignments as a freshman congresswoman to a key negotiator in the House Republican Conference who helped persuade fellow conservatives to vote to elect Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

The zero-sum politics of the Tea Party, MAGA Republicans and last week’s speaker debacle began with Newt Gingrich.

Mr. Gingrich began the zero-sum politics that mutated into the brand of the Tea Party and Trump M.A.G.A. Republicans and that presaged the raucous speaker battle in the House.

Evident back in 2006. a year of sleaze and corruption in congress, from 2005 to 2006, just ahead of the midterm elections, for republican congressman resigned on ethics scandals and criminal indictments. democrats portrayed the republican party as enmeshed in a culture of corruption. yet congressman joe cunningham, who resigned and she doesnt five after accepted more than $2 million in bribes -- and bribery, male frat, wire fraud, and tax of. asian congressman mark foley was accused of sending t...

There was a statement put out saying he had a surgery this morning, i heard from a source who said he had the surgery and came back. we got to confirm that, but, you know, the question then will become theres two republicans currently not here, ken buck and wesley hunt. hunt said in a twitter thread this morning that he returned home because of there were complications to his newly born child in the nicu and his wife was readmitted to the hospital. that said there are a lot of flights back and f...

Governing as much as they have a gravitational pull towards confronting the establishment. so, thats created a very big problem for him. and it just doesnt have the same sort of ability to really drop the hammer down, to use an egg name for my old boss, tom delay, make things happen in big chunks, make things move. happen in big margins, because they dont respond in the same sentence. >> -- make republicans miss pelosi, just because she couldve been sworn in today. right, to that degree of being...

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Ultimately as someone said to me, tom delay, i asked a veteran member, delay wouldnt get the votes. >> two things would be, one, the difference is between the squad and nancy pelosi was you might be not progressive enough. nancy pelosi was very progressive. so they were dealing with a leader who had the same goals and they had policy priorities. they had sort of real differences on things they could talk about. where you have this 20 members of the republican caucus, youre not even sure what the...

Succeed tom delay in 2006. paul ryan did not want to succeed john boehner in 2015. it was supposed to be kevin mccarthy. particle politics, little things like this start to add up and a tell you who gets in to leadership, this is significant today. were in our third ballot. well have a fourth ballot. that number ofments opposed to kevin mccarthy is growing. at some point, we will see if they continue to vote. right now looks like they will continue to vote and vote and voted. none of the members...