Third try’s the…Oh.

Jim Jordan failed once again to get the votes he needs to pick up the speakership. No doubt you’ve heard that by now, as it’s been all over the news cycle. Who’s up next? It’s anybody’s guess. Like the opening salvo’s to the Wars of the Roses—great entertainment if it didn’t have repercussions throughout the entire modern world.

While we laugh (because otherwise we cry) about the situation, beware of two things: 1) they’re no doubt trying to pin this whole debacle on the Democrats, and 2) there’s a very good reason why the difficulties are pestering them, and the Democrats have little to do with it.

Listen and learn with Don, Christina, and Chuck as we work to untangle the web. Three former-Marines, talking politics. That’s it.