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Illustration on the nature of current American politics in Congress by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

In American politics, reasonable vs. extreme may be theme of 2024

By Newt Gingrich

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, on Oct. 10, 2022. China has threatened “resolute countermeasures” over a planned meeting between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and Speaker of the United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during an upcoming visit in Los Angeles by the head of the self-governing island democracy. On April 5, 2023, Tsai’s expected to stop in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

China steps up incursions near Taiwan prior to Tsai-McCarthy meeting

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, March 24, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Intensity and insults rise as lawmakers debate debt ceiling

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

In this Jan. 6, 2021, photo, supporters of President Donald Trump, including Jacob Chansley, right with fur hat, are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol in Washington. Many of those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 cited falsehoods about the election, and now some of them are hoping their gullibility helps them in court. Albert Watkins, the St. Louis attorney representing Chansley, the so-called QAnon shaman, likened the process to brainwashing, or falling into the clutches of a cult. Repeated exposure to falsehood and incendiary rhetoric, Watkins said, ultimately overwhelmed his client's ability to discern reality. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Jan. 6 ‘Shaman’ released from prison early as lawyer calls for sanctions on prosecutors over video

By Alex Swoyer and Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Jacob Anthony Chansley, center, with other insurrectionists who supported then-President Donald Trump, are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber in the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

QAnon Shaman released early from prison after the release of Jan. 6 security videos

By Alex Swoyer and Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 5, 2020, photo, Jacob Anthony Chansley, who also goes by the name Jake Angeli, a QAnon believer, speaks to a crowd of President Donald Trump supporters outside of the Maricopa County Recorder's Office where votes in the general election are being counted, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) **FILE**

QAnon Shaman’s lawyer calls for sanctions against DOJ, prosecutors after his client’s early release

By Alex Swoyer and Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined at right by Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., chair of the House Education Committee, talks to reporters after the House narrowly passed the "Parents' Bill of Rights Act," at the Capitol in Washington, March 24, 2023. McCarthy says he’s growing increasingly concerned about President Joe Biden’s unwillingness to negotiate on lifting the nation’s borrowing authority. He says in a letter to the president dated Tuesday that the White House position “could prevent America from meeting its obligations and hold dire ramifications for the entire nation.” (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House Speaker McCarthy calls on Biden to schedule meeting on debt ceiling

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters after the House narrowly passed the "Parents' Bill of Rights Act," at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 24, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Kevin McCarthy outlines broad goals for debt limit talks with Biden

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., holds a ceremony to nullify the D.C. crime bill, at the Capitol in Washington, March 10, 2023. Republicans and Democrats have been dancing around each other about the need to raise the government's legal borrowing authority. President Joe Biden tried to edge closer on Thursday, March 9, by releasing his budget plan that cuts deficits by $2.9 trillion over 10 years, an offer that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif, quickly dismissed as woefully insufficient. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Speaker McCarthy readies GOP demands for debt ceiling battle with Biden

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks to the media, Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at the Capitol in Washington. McCarthy's decision to unleash a trove of Jan. 6 Capitol attack footage to Fox News' Tucker Carlson has launched a wholesale Republican effort to rewrite the history of the deadly siege. Carlson aired the first installment of some 41,000 hours of security footage on his prime-time show and promised more Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House GOP not sold on Senate-approved repeal of U.S. war powers in Iraq

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

FILE - Rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. A former top editor of an Orthodox Jewish newspaper in New York City was arrested Thursday on charges that he interfered with police officers who were trying to protect the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. Elliot Resnick, was chief editor of The Jewish Press when he joined the crowd of Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to an FBI agent's affidavit. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Kevin McCarthy releases Jan. 6 tapes to rest of the media, but public will have to wait

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks during a Friends of Ireland Caucus St. Patrick's Day luncheon at the U.S. Capitol, Friday, March 17, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

McCarthy calls on Trump supporters to stand down amid threat of former president’s arrest

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg listens in court during a hearing for Steven Lopez, Monday, July 25, 2022, in New York. Lopez, a co-defendant of the so-called Central Park Five, whose convictions in a notorious 1989 rape of a jogger were thrown out more than a decade later, had his conviction on a related charge overturned Monday. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool) **FILE**

GOP to take aim at Trump prosecutor; panel on government weaponization steels for felony indictment

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Rioters wave flags on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Federal prosecutors are employing an unusual strategy to prove leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group orchestrated a violent plot to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House, even though some of the defendants didn't carry out the violence themselves. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

McCarthy vows to ‘slowly roll out’ Jan. 6 tapes to news outlets after blowback

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks during a news conference in Statuary Hall at the Capitol in Washington, Jan.12, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

House Republicans’ unity, string of wins prove Washington pundits wrong

By Kerry Picket and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., center, and members of the House Freedom Caucus speak against Democratic policies and President Joe Biden's agenda with a focus on the debt limit, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 10, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

House Freedom Caucus lays out demands for debt-ceiling raise

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and GOP leaders meet with reporters following a closed-door briefing on the budget that will be submitted by President Joe Biden, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Zelenskyy invited House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to visit Ukraine

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and GOP leaders meet with reporters following a closed-door briefing on the budget that will be submitted by President Joe Biden, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden calls on McCarthy to release GOP budget; says he’ll meet anytime

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy set to meet Taiwan leader in California: Report

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Tucker Carlson, host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) **FILE**

Tucker Carlson to begin airing details from exclusive Jan. 6 tapes

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times