GOP Chaos Over Speaker Vote Brings Rare Unity To CNN, Fox News & MSNBC; Kevin McCarthy Fails On Third Ballot To Clinch Post

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“We still have absolutely no idea how this will end,” declared CNN’s Jake Tapper Tuesday as the House of Representatives looked to come up short for the third time to vote in a Speaker.

Suffering humiliation on humiliation, GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy saw 20 far right members of his fractious caucus put their third ballot support behind another top Republican.

With business for the new 118th Congress frozen until a Speaker is selected, McCarthy had 202 votes to 212 for House Democrats caucus chair Rep Hakeem Jeffries and 20 votes to Republican Rep Jim Jordan – with the later a top McCarthy ally who has urged members to vote for the California Republican. “This is an utter, unmitigated disaster,” Karl Rove exclaimed on Fox News Channel earlier today as Republicans self-cannibalized themselves. “Chaos tends to bring about chaos until it no longer brings about chaos,” the ex-White House chief of staff and George W.

Bush operative added to Fox’s John Roberts. “We’re a long way from the point at which chaos stops bringing around more chaos.” While the Speakership outcome is uncertain, one thing is clear – the chaos was like a second Christmas to cabler newswers.