{"id":22755,"date":"2023-01-09T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T11:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rspradio1.com\/?p=22755"},"modified":"2023-01-09T11:58:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T11:58:12","slug":"the-gambit-for-the-gavel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rspradio1.com\/?p=22755","title":{"rendered":"The Gambit For the Gavel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. House of Representatives seemed to have turned into a shit-show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While there are more eloquent ways to express that sentiment, I rather doubt there any more accurate ways to express it and to be honest, things aren\u2019t always as they seem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, January 5<sup>th<\/sup>, Kevin McCarthy lost his seventh ballot to become the Speaker of the House. Consistently, he had gotten in the neighborhood of 200-201 votes where he needed 218 to win the gavel. 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