Turgid Congressman Jim Jordan’s bid to become Speaker of the House is still doomed and even more doomed than it was two days ago when it was doomed from the get-go, Punchbowl reports.
“His entire brand is wrapped up in fighting liberals and being a winner. That’s why Jordan doesn’t want to go through a third roll-call vote on the floor, especially when he could lose even more votes, according to more than a half-dozen sources involved in the talks. Jordan’s office denies this, saying he plans to move forward with trying to become speaker,” they write in a run-down sent with the subject line of “Jordan’s off-ramp,” incredibly but accurately describing a grown man and an elected official whose ego needs to be given hospice care as it slides toward inevitable failure.