The battle back to square one: "Captainless pirate ship"
The search for a new speaker of the US House of Representatives is back to square one, after Donald Trump-backed candidate Jim Jordan was voted down three times and finally withdrew as a candidate after a secret ballot within the Republican Party.
Today, the party will hold a closed forum for nine new candidates, in an attempt to clear a new name, reports Reuters. But the task is not expected to be easy.
Within the Republicans, there were strong contradictions - not least based on how the former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was forced out.
- We are in a really bad situation, McCarthy said on Friday - a statement described by the New York Times as "an understatement".
The paper lists a series of problems facing the party and dresses it up with a series of different statements from conservative thinkers and Republican politicians.
Politician Ralph Reed likens the party to a captainless pirate ship - "the Black Pearl without Jack Sparrow" - and conservative commentator Ann Coulter calls the Republicans "complete idiots". Perhaps the Wall Street Journal's editorial page goes the furthest in its description.
"Never underestimate the Republicans' ability to commit electoral suicide," writes the paper.
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