From an article that talks about the narrowing GOP majority in the House and the effect of absences..
This puts Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries securely in the catbird seat, and it completely gives the Senate Republicans the whip hand over their bat-guano colleagues at the other end of the Capitol. And it leaves Speaker Mike Johnson on an atoll with the sea rising around him.
More...The very first thing that the new Republican majority in the House did upon taking over was eliminate remote voting, only because it was a program begun by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. This was a bad idea that looks even worse for them now. Meanwhile, there was a short-term funding deal negotiated over the weekend, which set the flying monkeys in the House aloft one more time. Meanwhile, there's a stirring in the Capitol of actual governing. It's a fragile critter in a very strange place.
Is there an award for bad writing?