Ding dong, it’s The Best & The Brightest, coming in hot with a dispatch from the trenches of the culture wars. It’s been a while since I (Tina) have reported on the halls of Congress and, specifically, the 20 Republicans who held Kevin McCarthy’s speakership hostage. While they haven’t made much noise in the months since the speakers’ election, the newest iteration of the Taliban 20 are gearing up for the debt ceiling fight—and have no qualms about blowing up the economy in order to destroy woke libs.

P.S. In other D.C. news, my colleague Teddy Schlefier, who has been dominating coverage of Jeff Bezos’s quest to buy the Washington Commanders, broke some news this morning about his bid. (And sign up for his stellar newsletter, The Stratosphere, if you haven’t already.)

The House G.O.P. proposal, of course, will be a mostly symbolic document—a framework for the spending cuts that Republicans will demand in exchange for increasing the debt limit before the U.S. government runs out of money...