If you lied on a resume for a government job, the government could prosecute you for perjury. That fact is made clear on any job application for a federal government job, even for something like mail carrier.

House GOP makes history with multiple failures to elect a speaker. While the most likely outcome is still Kevin McCarthy scraping by after heaps of concessions for votes, that is certainly not a position of strength and I can't see them getting much of anything done this cycle (even in obstruction). Would be hilarious though if the extremists take their ball and go home and a Democrat ends up with the gavel, lol.

McCarthy didn't just fail to get a majority of votes as the victorious party's presumptive nominee for the first time in a century three times in a row, he didn't even get the most votes. He wasn't even the leading candidate! The leading candidate for the House Speakership on all three ballots was Democratic nominee Hakeem Jeffries who, in contrast to McCarthy, got every vote from the Representatives of his party. McCarthy, by contrast, actually lost a vote by the last ballot that he'd had on the first one. He's actually getting farther away from winning over time so far.

It just goes to show what I think we here all know by now once more: that today's Republicans are demonstrably incapable of even governing Twitter, let alone the country. This is a truly, truly sad and embarrassing start to their leadership of the House of Representatives and if it keeps going this way, they won't even hold the chamber for a second term.

I feel like I shouldn't be enjoying this as much as I am, like it's eventually going to bite me in the ass, but watching the GOP rift turn into a chasm while they eat each other is just too good.

This has been the most entertaining thing in US politics in a long time

McCarthy needs to just take the L and hand the speakership over to Jeffries.

Kevin is upset about all this

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Conservatives are killing their own party... I do not understand their end game.

This is what happens when a group identifies as being AGAINST something instead of FOR something. They're just AGAINST progress and equality and gun control and all that, they're not FOR unity or collaboration because that would be communist socialist Islam or some stupid catchphrase bullshit. 

McCarthy also lost the 12th round but hey he's gotten more votes than Jeffries for the first time. Getting close now.