Jim Jordan’s Failed Strategy, Shockingly, Keeps on Failing

As the House began its 17th day without a speaker, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)—clearly short of the votes he needs to win the position—started Friday with an 8 a.m. press conference and an anecdote about the Wright brothers.

The Ohioan regaled the Capitol Hill Press corps with a history lesson about how Orville and Wilbur Wright first flew a plane in 1903, and then, 66 years later, in 1969, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.

“We went from two guys flying 100 feet to putting a man on the moon,” Jordan said. “It is a great country.”

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