Jan. 4, 2023: How long can McCarthy hang on?
So how does this end? And how long will it take to end it?\nThose are the questions towering over the new House Republican majority, which for the first time in 100 years, found itself unable to choose a speaker on the first ballot \u2014 or two others afterward.\nThe House is now paralyzed, unable to swear in its members or form committees or adopt rules \u2014 let alone pass legislation. And the scary realization for the GOP rank-and-file is that there\u2019s no easy way out of this mess and no sign that one is going to appear anytime soon.\nPlaybook editor Mike DeBonis and co-author Rachael Bade break it all down, plus West Wing Playbook co-author and White House correspondent Eli Stokols stops by to discuss the view from the Biden administration.\nSubscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter\nRaghu Manavalan is the host and senior editor of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.