Jack, until Mike Johnson's election as speaker yesterday, one half of the legislative branch of government was completely shut down for three weeks. The House couldn't take action on any issue without a speaker, and Republicans couldn't agree on one—for three weeks! So, naturally, the story on CNN was:

Let me make this very simple: The media is rooting for Democrats to fail.

Last year, as evidence piled up that Democrats were in for a good midterm election, the media obsessively reported on the coming "red wave." (It didn't materialize.) The doom-y stories about a major recession that was seemingly always just around the corner kept coming for more than a year, but inflation has come down while the economy has continued to hum—and jobs and wages have continued to grow. Now, with Republicans having paralyzed Congress for three weeks, pundits are looking to make this a bad-news story for Democrats. I'm sick and tired of this $#@!.

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