Highlights: Their third speaker pick in three weeks lasted barely four hours. Now, with their desperation on full display, Republicans are trying again.

The House GOP is convening Tuesday night for its fourth internal huddle of the day as it hears from yet another unwieldy field of candidates to lead its broken ranks. No one has demonstrated the ability to do what the three previous failed speaker hopefuls couldn’t: Unite enough Republicans to land 217 votes on the floor.

Two members of tonight’s five-man field have already run and lost. That includes Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), the second highest vote-getter earlier Tuesday.

There’s little hope for relief among the bitterly divided GOP, where the fruitless search for a speaker has become so miserable that some members even floated a return to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy — with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as an “assistant speaker.” (The idea has not been taken seriously inside the conference.)

[M]any Republicans fear they’ve reached the point where no candidate can get 217 votes on the floor.

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    I feel like this is exactly what the most disruptive members are wanting. Maybe I’m just being cynical and this is way off point, but it feels to me like they want a non-functioning federal government. This entire shit show is the plan. The wrench in the gears.

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      Maybe but I really think they thought they could hold the position hostage. That moderates would kowtow to their whims rather than not function.

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      Well, theyre ideology consists of “not what democrats want.” They aren’t for anything, only against progress or human rights/equality.

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        To hear them tell it, government is the enemy, incompetent, and worse at anything it attempts. Unless they’re in charge and levying it against their opponents, of course.

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          They’re in a race to prove themselves right so they can go “sEe???”

          But also hate on brown people

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      The Israel war really puts that on a back foot. They can’t just wait on the shutdown and do nothing. They are being hammered on all sides for our inaction as Israel support is popular in both parties, and it’s crystal clear whose fault not getting aid is.

      Diehards wont give a shit, but independents do pay attention to dysfunction. The GOP are such a shitshow of gossiping Hyena’s, the media is all in on displaying it too, which helps tons.