Update — later this evening, John Hinderaker admits to what we all saw with our own eyes, today: after a public spectacle last seen over a century ago, the GOP was unable to secure and seat a Speaker — on three tries. That level of ineptitude, on the public national CSPAN broadcasts… is in equal measure both delicious, and astonishing. The MAGA wing cannot even understand the damage it is inflicting. Some of the MAGA GOP folk said they don’t care if Hakeem Jeffries becomes Speaker, due to the GOP failures of procedure.

These MAGA morons (formerly encouraged by all the Powerline boys) are absolutely incompetent at any form of politics that does not entail scorched Earth. And it will be our job to remind all moderate voters in 2024… that these people offered… literally nothing remotely constructive… to a nation beset with problems. Problems that are fixable if we lock arms, one to each — but intractable — if MAGA insists on simply preventing all forms of progress.

Should all be very droll, now. Congrats, John! End update.

[Mid-afternoon on 01.03.2023:] Hayward seems to think being a fractured, in-fighting, whining, do nuthin’ 19^th Century policies party… is a good look for the GOP.

I will agree with him — because… it means that the main-line GOP (and Tangerine’s MAGA loons) are little more than “Walking Dead” extras.

Hayward openly admits that his best case (after praising Joe McCarthy, of the 1950s)… is that the GOP puts its head between its legs… and waits for the mid-air, DC-8 dropped engine style crash, in 2024.

D A M N.

Just… damn.