One congressional truism is this: if you ran the Senate on the House procedures, you would lose some things but it would ultimately work fine. But if you ran the House on the Senate procedures, it would turn into some combo of Lord of the Flies and Mad Max within hours.

Just imagine Gohmert Hour, except you can’t stop it, and it’s happening in the middle of trying to conduct business.

That’s problem one of about six dozen.

Meanwhile, Matt Gaetz is moving to table the motion to proceed. Not a specific motion to proceed. Every one of them.

Unfortunately, Andy Biggs won’t give unanimous consent to *anything,* so there’s nothing to do but try to move motions to proceed.

All of this is happening without the electronic voting system, so every roll call is taking over an hour.

The Speaker has no discretion in recognition, so the Majority Leader has to spend every minute standing on the floor, otherwise some backbencher will get control and offer his own motion to proceed to some bill top names a post office.

Another hour for the tabling roll call.

Bobert, Gaetz, Greene, and Biggs have now made a pact to always have one of them guarding the floor, and they are objecting to every single UC request.

The good news is we don’t need to setup a hotline system. It’d be useless.

We’re thinking maybe six weeks for the vote-a-rama on the budget resolution.

Meanwhile, a standoff has formed where people on *both* sides are refusing to end a quorum call, because 26 different members have holds on more than 500 bills each.

Daniel Webster is now demanding his amendment gets a vote, and is threatening a live quorum call after each procedural motion for the foreseeable future.

Tom Cole has accidentally let it slip that amendments need not be germane to the underlying bills.

150 different members have now filed abortion and gun control amendments to the FAA reauthorization.