House Democrats must go towards January 3 with a #CoalitionSpeaker candidate and a unified party, ready to head off two years of MAGA chaos amid war and depression!

#NeverKevin faction of five Tea Party extremists urges McCarthy to end candidacy because he lacks the 218 votes; Seven other raving extremists pose conditions for getting their votes, including toppling of Speaker, using debt ceiling to extort a balanced federal budget, and attaching extraneous riders to must-pass bills; Many center-left pundits still studiously avoid mentioning [...]