"We're electing idiots" -- "Now we learned how to govern" -- "You'll get the portrait" -- "It was like Subway before Subway" -- "Now I'm fucked. Now I look like a flip-flopper" -- "It's going to requirethem to continue on a week in, week out basis to obstruct -- "Serious people put shit on paper" -- "We're going to force him into a monogamous relationship" -- "I can't move forward and move up and be anti-Trump" -- "Shame! Shame! Shame!" -- "I'm like a prodigy compared to my hometown" -- "You always want to keep a record and keep proof of your bribes" -- "It'll be the prayer, the pledge, and the motion to vacate" -- "We've been in this fifteen-year burn" -- "Bring it on." "Just did." -- "We're not going to let those guys throw you out" -- "The greatest Speaker in modern history"

"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 serialliar and conman George Santos, revenge porn being shown on the floor of the House, and the theatrical high jinks of Lauren Boebert--allwere a sign of decay and dysfunction of the highest order. Even themembers 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 HouseDemocrats lose faith in their President, the authors reveal a levelof 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 bythe 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"--

"Who's got the stones to take on the apparatus?" "The cleanest thing for everyone here is for me to want nothing" -- "Long live Speaker Scalise" -- "My brand is 'fighter'" -- "Voting for a Globalist RINO like Tom Emmer would be a tragic mistake!" -- "We're playing with fire" -- "Maybe it's my time?" -- "I got my mojo back" -- "Mr.Gaetz, look me in the eye" -- "Bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body" -- "To hell with this place" -- "They're burning this thing to theground tonight" -- "They're deep state, too" -- "I hope the young women get the justice they deserve" -- "You go down in American history as one of the darkest figures" -- "When the Republican Party expels the turd of Donald Trump, it will go back to being the old Republican Party."