Pelosi's advice for GOP House Negotiations: "I think you would need a doctor or a psychiatrist"

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32. As usual, I need to point out that both the New York Time and the Washington Post are giving them

hell. Relying on TV, cable or online news results in a very distorted version of what journalism is supposed to be.

WaPo: House speaker chaos brings glee and gloom for national security state
- For some officials, the gridlock is a nightmarish preview of budget battles to come. For others, it’s a moment of comedy relief.
- “It’s not just the Democrats laughing,” House Republican Michael Waltz (Fla.) told Fox Business on Wednesday. “It’s the Chinese Communist Party, the Russians, the North Koreans, the Iranians who are pointing to democracy and calling it dysfunctional, saying you better side with us and not this form of government.”

NYT: Speaker Quest Reveals McCarthy’s Tenuous Grip on an Unruly Majority
- As the Republican leader has made concessions to the far right, he has effectively agreed to give them carte blanche to disrupt the workings of the House — and to hold him hostage to their demands.
-The recipe for the chaos already existed: A toxic combination of the Republicans’ slim governing majority, an unyielding hard-right flank that disdains the normal operations of government and a candidate for speaker who has repeatedly bowed to that flank in his quest for power.