Flotsam and Jetsam - Jordan Works the Room

Nicholas Ballasy at JTN calls it a High bar: Jim Jordan must pick up more than 60 votes to win speakership on House floor. "The House is reconvening at 6pm on Monday without a speaker since Oct. 3 and a proposal to make Rep. McHenry temporary speaker is gaining steam." Sundance at CTH points out that After Jim Jordan Outlines Opposition to Indefinite Ukraine Funding, Indiana Republican Victoria Spartz Rescinds Support. At WaEx, Mike Johnson prepares for speakership bid if Jordan fails to secure majority. From Da Caller, ‘Vote For Jim Jordan—Not Hakeem Jeffries’: Sen. Mike Lee Slams GOP Rep. Mike Rogers Amid House Speakership Contest. "In a move Lee blasted as “outrageous,” Rogers told reporters he was willing to work with House Democrats amid the speakership battle, The Washington Post reported. Rogers told reporters Friday he absolutely would not back a Jordan speakership, according to The Hill." At TNP's  Capitol Crib Notes: If GOP Can’t Coalesce, We May Get a Democrat Speaker. Jeez, at this point maybe we should let Hakeem have it, and then make his life miserable, too!

Fox sees a 2024 showdown: DeSantis, Haley battle for second place behind Trump. "Thanks to a surge by Haley, DeSantis no longer has second place all to himself in the Republican presidential nomination race." Then Burgum had to go and say something sensible, at JTN Burgum says moving federal agencies' headquarters outside of DC would be a priority as president "Why not move the Department of Energy to Texas? "Part of this is returning the power to the states and returning the power to the people and to shrink the size of the federal government," Burgum said." Then there's always my dad's idea to move the nation's capital to Fargo, ND, to find out who's serious about wanting to run the country.

Breitbart claims an Exclusive: House Republicans Introduce ‘GAZA Act’ to Stop Biden from Importing Palestinians to U.S. How many falafel makers do we really need?

James Agresti at I&I details the Hard Evidence Warranting The Impeachment Of Joe Biden. At Da Caller, a poll reveals Most Americans Think Joe Biden Did Something Illegal Or Unethical In Hunter Biden’s Foreign Business Dealings. Atop Da Hill, Jonathan Turley thinks New evidence may destroy Biden’s defense in his classified documents case. It sure looks like somebody went through them looking for something, and the splitting them up to move to different places. If not Joe, who?

At JTN, Joe Biden stumbles up the stairs to speak in Philadelphia. Don't break a hip!

Biden almost wipes out as he takes the stage in Philadelphia pic.twitter.com/WYaL1btgiA

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 13, 2023

At Da Fetched, a Record 49% of Americans Say Living Standards Are Eroding under Biden. Fox Business reports an Economist blasts 'charlatan' Krugman over claim that the 'war on inflation is over': 'Fallacious' "Krugman later posted that his claim was 'too flip' . . . The post was tagged with a "community note" by X that said, "The exclusion of food, shelter, energy, and used cars is misleading. All prices included in CPI shows year over year inflation at 3.7% as of September 2023."" Ben Whedon at JTN points out Federal law charges Americans for rescue flights from Israel while illegals get free travel, hotels. "The State Department confirmed on Thursday that it was working to arrange charter flights for American citizens and their immediate family members. But if you are an American citizen, there's a catch."

Politico reports Dean Phillips starts calling New Hampshire Dems in step toward challenging Biden. "The Minnesota Democrat is now taking concrete steps towards challenging Joe Biden."  WaEx, Dean Phillips draws primary challenger following rumors he plans to challenge Biden.

Sundance at CTH, sees the FBI Reverse  – Wray: Reported Domestic Threats Have Surged Following Terrorist Attack on Israel "The good news is it wasn’t just the CTH audience who laughed at the face of a highly politicalized FBI claiming last week there was no concern.  The social media sphere and independent journalists were thoroughly eviscerating the FBI for their politically correct nonsense.  The tides have changed, and the majority of the American people now see the naked stupidity of the FBI as a political institution." Da Fetched reports James Clapper Fears Trump Will Seek ‘Retribution’ if He Returns to White House. He should, and so should Trump.  Tom Elliott@tomselliott "Fmr. CIA Director Panetta: “I don’t have any regrets about [the letter claiming Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation]” “My concern was to alert the public [about] disinformation … Frankly I haven’t seen any evidence from any intelligence agency that that was not the case”" Denial is a river in Washington D.C. Insty points out BUT TRUMP SUPPORTERS ARE FAIR GAME: DOJ Warns Financial Institutions That They Can’t Reject Illegal Immigrants’ Credit Applications.

Stacy McCain sees Self-Inflicted ‘Oppression’ on the issue of the Israeli-Hamas war,

Liberals make the same mistake about this situation that they make on every other issue: Having made an idol of “Equality,” liberals decide that members of a less-than-successful group are victims of “oppression,” and then accuse their more successful neighbors of perpetrating this oppression. Part of this is rooted in the natural tendency to sympathize with the underdog. Watching Star Wars, we naturally cheer when the scrappy Rebel Alliance scores a victory against the seemingly invincible Galactic Empire. In college football, we’re happy when the Top 10 team gets upset by an obscure and unranked opponent. Making such a sentimental attachment to underdogs a fundamental principle of politics (or foreign policy), however, is a formula for folly, and it is just this error that the Left has committed in regard to the Palestinians.

Kassy Dillon

At Da Mail, Chilling moment pro-Palestine U.Mass students surround reporter, demand to know her ETHNICITY and threaten her with lawyers for covering their protest Fox's "Kassy Dillon claims she was harassed after leaving an anti-Israel protest." 

Althouse reads Douhat, "In the debate about whether to take the woke version of progressivism seriously as a revolutionary ideology or whether to regard it primarily as a kind of performative intra-elite signaling..." "For instance, the Harvard Art Museums, their priceless collections attached to the country’s richest university, want you to know that they are 'located on the traditional and ancestral land of the Massachusett, the original inhabitants of what is now known as Boston and Cambridge.' Also, they 'pay respect to the people of the Massachusett Tribe, past and present.' A form of respect paying that leaves the obvious corollary unsaid: They have no intention of giving the land back! But now that comedy has been undermined, just a bit...." Writes Ross Douthat, in "When ‘Decolonization’ Isn’t Just Academic Rhetoric""

Dylan Mulvaney Is The Babylon Bee's Man Of The Year. At Fox, Students march against university removing tampons from men’s bathrooms "Clemson University removed feminine hygiene dispensers from men's bathrooms after the College Republicans chapter mocked them." From OutKick, Rob Gronkowski Is Out On Men Competing In Women's Sports. 

Breitbart reports ‘South Park’ Mocks Hollywood Trend of Recasting Characters as Minority Women.

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Best Wrench Wench And Gun Bunny Too? and FMJRA 2.0: Don’t Lean On Me, Man, Because You Can’t Afford The Ticket up at The Other McCain more or less on time.