Today in Witch-Hunt Culture
17th October 2023
Playbook: Jim Jordan’s day of reckoning (Politico)
Jim Jordan skeptics begin lining up behind his House speaker bid (Axios)
Jim Jordan’s remarkably thin legislative track record (Washington Poop) As thin as Joe Biden’s? As thin as Kamala Harris’s?
Jordan builds Speakership momentum as opposition falls (The Hill)
America’s zombie “crime wave” (Popular Information)
Jim Jordan Is Out of Step With a GOP Party He Wants to Lead (Bloomberg)
The Apotheosis of Jim Jordan Is a Sight to Behold (N.Y. Times) Apparently nobody at the New York Times has a dictionary.
Democrats craft strategy to make GOP pay at the ballot box if Jim Jordan is elected speaker (NBC News)
Tapper’s 9/11 Twist: It’s ‘Incredibly Important’ to Lecture About American Islamophobia!
Jordan Inches Closer to Speakership, but Republican Holdouts Remain (N.Y. Times)
Rep Jasmine Crockett Says Dems are ‘the Adults’ Amid GOP Speaker Battle: ‘They Always Expect Us To Fix Their Mess’ (The Messenger) The cure would be worse than the disease.
Democrats prepare to chain GOP to ‘far-right’ Jordan in 2024 (Politico)
America’s highest gun death rates are in the South (Axios) And all in Democrat-run cities.
Colbert Claims GOP Couldn’t Vote For Jesus: ‘Worse Than a Socialist, He Was a Christian’
The Right’s Latest Target: Unmarried Women (The Nation)