Mad house / Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater.
| Author/creator | Karni, Annie author. |
| Other author | Broadwater, Luke, author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Random House, [2025] |
| Description | xiii, 296 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction "We're electing idiots." -- Liz Cheney -- "Now we learned how to govern." -- Kevin McCarthy -- "I don't need a fucking portrait." -- Kevin McCarthy -- "It was like Subway before Subway." -- Kevin McCarthy -- "Now I'm fucked. Now I look like a flip flopper." -- Nancy Mace -- "It's going to require them to continue on a week in week out basis to obstruct." -- Russ Vought -- "Serious people put shit on paper." -- Shalanda Young -- "We're going to force him into a monogamous relationship." -- Matt Gaetz -- "I can't move forward and move up and be anti-Trump" -- Nancy Mace -- "Shame! Shame! Shame!" -- Democrats -- "I'm like a prodigy compared to my home town" -- James Comer -- "You always want to keep a record and keep proof of your bribes," Marjorie Taylor Greene -- "It'll be the prayer, the pledge and the motion to vacate." -- Matt Gaetz -- "We've been in this 15-year burn." -- Chip Roy. (AKA : The rise and fall of the House Freedom Caucus) -- "Bring it on."- Kevin McCarthy. "Just did." -- Matt Gaetz -- "We're not going to let those guys throw you out." -Steny Hoyer -- "The greatest speaker in modern history." -- Garret Graves -- "Who's got the stones to take on the apparatus?" -- Steve Bannon Chapter 18 "The cleanest thing for everyone here is for me to want nothing." -- Patrick McHenry -- "Long Live Speaker Scalise." -- Matt Gaetz -- "My brand is fighter." -- Jim Jordan -- "Voting for a Globalist RINO like Tom Emmer would be a tragic mistake!" -- Donald Trump -- "Can we run this play?" -- Pete Aguilar (AKA : The Secret Democratic Plan to Make McHenry Speaker) -- "Maybe it's my time?" -- Mike Johnson -- "I got my mojo back." -- Mike Johnson -- "Mr. Gaetz, look me in the eye," -- Hunter Biden -- "Bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body." -- Jasmine Crockett -- "To Hell with this place" -- George Santos -- "They're burning this thing to the ground tonight" -- Chris Murphy -- "That woman thinks Vladimir Putin is a good individual." -- Hayden Haynes -- "You go down in American history as one of the darkest figures." -- Chuck Schumer -- "When the Republican Party expels the turd of Donald Trump, it will go back to being the old Republican Party." -- Chuck Schumer. |
| Abstract | "The United States Congress has always been messy and far-from-august, but as Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater show here, in scorching, shocking detail, it has reached some kind of chaotic bottom. The anarchy that reigned over Congress's lower chamber in the wake of the January 6th attack on the Capitol Building-the election of serial liar and con-man George Santos, revenge porn being shown on the floor of the house, and the theatrical high jinks of Lauren Boebert-all were a sign of decay and dysfunction of the highest order. Even the members of the 118th Congress would admit it was a circus-but up close, the spectacle was more alarming than funny. Taking the reader into closed door meetings as House Republicans, in thrall to a cult of personality, bumble ever deeper into extremism, and sniping House Democrats lose faith in their President, the authors reveal a level of disorder that we have never seen before. Mad House is a searing, rollicking, and deeply reported portrait of a body at war with itself, riven by pettiness, egomania, and score-settling, and defined by the truly unbelievable antics of people like Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Jim Jordan, who, handed the reins of power, attempt to actually govern a country. Spoiler: It's more chaotic-a lot more chaotic - than you think"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Karni, Annie. Mad house New York, NY : Random House, [2025] 9780593731277 |
| LCCN | 2024046942 |
| ISBN | 9780593731260 |
| ISBN | 0593731263 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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