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   From: bks@panix.com   
      
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    | House Republicans Aren't Having Any Fun   
    |   
    | They're blaming their leader, House Speaker Mike Johnson.   
    | ...   
    | Johnson's own members, in the past month, have accused him   
    | of stretching if not wholly disregarding the truth, and his   
    | assertion last Wednesday that he has a firm grip on power   
    | was correct only in the most technical sense. On the day he   
    | uttered it, a group of Johnson's most electorally   
    | vulnerable soldiers abandoned him to help Democrats force a   
    | vote on extending health-care subsidies, and a longtime   
    | lawmaker became the 25th House Republican--with many more   
    | expected to follow--to announce that he would not seek   
    | reelection next year. "This place is disgraceful," GOP   
    | Representative Mike Lawler of New York vented on the House   
    | floor, calling out Congress's failure to prevent a spike in   
    | health-insurance rates set to occur in January. In the   
    | preceding weeks, a member of the speaker's leadership   
    | team--Representative Elise Stefanik of New York--publicly   
    | denounced Johnson as ineffective (shortly before she   
    | announced that she was, for now, quitting politics   
    | altogether), and another high-profile (albeit perpetually   
    | aggrieved) Republican, Representative Nancy Mace of South   
    | Carolina, pined, in the pages of The New York Times, for   
    | the sturdy hand of Nancy Pelosi.   
    | ...   
      
      
       --bks   
      
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