Reports of the inevitability of spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan’s ascension to Speaker of the House may have been premature, according to Tuesday’s edition of Punchbowl News which says sources have estimated that the alleged Joe Paterno of the late 1980s-early 1990s Ohio State University wrestling program is 20 votes short of the 217 threshold needed to obtain the gavel.
This is in contrast to other reporting on Monday which had a distinct character of “All of your base are belong to Jordan” and that it was only a matter of time before all resistance within the extremely thin GOP majority would be crushed ahead of the planned Tuesday vote. This doesn’t mean he definitely will lose so much as it’s not nearly a done deal as some sources tried to make it sound.