Remember their names. On Tuesday, 11 of California's 12 GOP House members put tribal loyalty above the country's best interest and heedlessly cast their votes to make Jim Jordan — election denier, Jan. 6 instigator, political pyromaniac — the next House speaker. Remember their names — especially the ones who are running next year in some of the country's most competitive reelection contests: John Duarte. Mike Garcia. Young Kim. Michelle Steel. David Valadao.
All the talk of voter fraud, ballot-stuffing and other alleged subterfuge — which Jordan has widely promoted — is pure bunk. Anyone arrogant enough to substitute his preference for the expressed will of voters and reckless enough to promote such blatant lies should come nowhere close to the power of the speakership.