Speaker Dead Man Walking

Kevin McCarthy loses by winning.

Good Evening.

A fabulist, a conspiracy theorist, and a wrestling coach who put on a jacket for the first time walk into a legislative chamber.

The fabulist, who is wearing strangely priestly garb, points at the heavens and says: “I can see God up there smiling down on us.”

The conspiracy theorist looks up, grins, and says, “I don’t see God up there but …