BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy Elected Next Speaker Of The House

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was elected to become the next Speaker of the House of Representatives late on Friday after a week of drama forced multiple rounds of voting for the first time in a century.

McCarthy won with 216 votes over Rep. Hakeem Jeffries’ (D-NY) 212 votes because six Republican members voted “present,” thus lowering the bar needed for McCarthy to clinch the position.

There were moments of drama during the final couple of rounds of voting, including a moment when Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) was pulled away from getting into a confrontation with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

Wild. Mike Rogers of Alabama has to be held back from Gaetz. #HouseofRepresentatives pic.twitter.com/szHopiISv4

— Ellen McNamara (@Fox10Ellen) January 7, 2023

One of the few holdouts who changed their to “present” so that McCarthy could win was Rep. Matt Rosendale. A photographer captured an image showing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) trying to hand her phone to Rosendale as former President Donald Trump was on the line. Rosendale waved off Greene and refused to take the call.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, holds her smart phone with former US President Donald Trump on the line, as Rep. Matt Rosendale, a Republican from Montana, waves it off during a meeting of the 118th Congress in the House Chamber on Friday.#SpeakerVote pic.twitter.com/VWvOGfXd9Q

— Al Drago (@Al_Drago) January 7, 2023

There were 20 initial Republican holdouts to start the week, including Reps. Dan Bishop (NC), Lauren Boebert (CO), Byron Donalds (FL), Josh Brecheen (OK), Mike Cloud (TX), Andrew Clyde (GA), Eli Crane (AZ), Matt Gaetz (FL), Bob Good (VA), Paul Gosar (AZ), Andy Harris (MD), Anna Paulina Luna (FL), Mary Miller (IL), Ralph Norman (SC), Andy Ogles (TN), Scott Perry (PA), Matt Rosendale (MT), Chip Roy (TX), Keith Self (TX), and Andy Biggs (AZ).

That number was dramatically whittled down on Friday as McCarthy picked off the 14 of the detractors and got them to vote for him.

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Happy New Year! We’re Doomed!

The following is the opening satirical monologue of “The Andrew Klavan Show.

Happy New Year everyone. It’s time for me to reveal my predictions for 2023.

To begin with, I believe the pandemic will return with a vengeance. This time, it will kill everyone on earth who thinks differently than I do, and also all the men except me, and also the unattractive women, so that only beautiful women who agree with me will remain, and they’ll be desperate to have children to replace all the dead people who disagreed with me and so will have to line up to have sex with the last man on earth…

Okay, maybe that’s not actually a prediction. It’s more like a daydream. It would probably never happen. Forget I said anything. I was just kidding around. That’s not my daydream. Really.

Where was I?

Oh yeah. Predictions for 2023.

As the new Republican majority takes over the House, the boisterous GOP conservative minority will band together to form one gigantic moron, making it impossible to get a winning vote so that absolutely nothing will be accomplished until the conservatives cave in and vote along with the moderates so that absolutely nothing will be accomplished.

Climate change will ensure that there are more violent storms in the heavily populated news media, although there will remain the exact same number of storms in reality, where no one lives. The catastrophic rise of temperatures in Democrats’ imaginations will leave their minds in chaos and ruin, so there won’t be much of a change there. But this disaster will finally make it clear even to deniers that if we do not act quickly to hobble western civilization for no reason, the world will come to an end five years ago, exactly as Al Gore predicted. Even now as 2023 begins, it is obvious that climate change represents an existential threat to both polar bears and journalistic integrity, although not to polar bears. Fortunately, we can depend on global leaders to respond to the danger by vigorously giving billions of our dollars in subsidies to those of their relatives and friends who make electric vehicles, solar panels, bird-shaped whirligigs and other attractive lawn decorations.

In medical news, doctors will develop a pill to reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s. President Biden will take the pill and suddenly leap to his feet and shout, “What the hell am I doing? I’ve spent trillions of dollars we don’t have, left the border unguarded and allowed crime to skyrocket! I must have had Alzheimer’s.” Then the drug will wear off, and he’ll lapse into a state of delusional dementia, namely California.

Elsewhere around the country, new laws will go into effect raising the minimum wage for fast food workers so that each and every worker will finally be able to get some rest as they’re replaced by machines. This will be a big improvement as customers will no longer have to deal with some annoying worker at the drive through window, and in fact won’t even see a worker until they drive past the window and the worker hijacks their car, hoping to sell it so he can buy something to eat at the automated fast food place.

In foreign news, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping will change his name to He Jinping because he’s tired of sounding like a girl. Western leaders and journalists will celebrate the Chinese President’s change of pronouns and cheer him on as the first transgender leader to conquer Taiwan. The global welcome to He’s territorial aggression will encourage Russian Leader Vladimir Putin to send a new battalion of tanks into Ukraine to pull the last battalion of tanks out of the mud. Russian journalists will then declare Putin a great man or fall off the top of a building.

Finally, in cultural news, Hollywood creatives will produce a new Marvel film in which each and every superhero represents one of the letters in LGBTQIA. Thus the creatives will finally realize their dream of developing an enormous franchise movie that literally no one watches. This amazing cultural feat will be celebrated at an Oscar ceremony that no one watches before being adapted into a streaming series that no one watches. Then, when Hollywood creatives are absolutely sure no one is watching, they can finally get back to screwing their interns.

Andrew Klavan is the host of The Andrew Klavan Show at The Daily Wire. A popular political satirist and Hollywood screenwriter, Klavan is also an award-winning novelist. Be sure to order his new novel today: A Strange Habit of Mind, book two in the Cameron Winter Mystery series.

The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.