For the whole three-week duration of the speakerless House, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) sought to seduce his Republican colleagues with the siren song of bipartisanship. “This is about what is good for the American people, not as Democrats or Republicans but as Americans,” Jeffries told PBS NewsHour in mid-October. “That's why, at this moment, we have got to find a way to come together, restructure the House in a bipartisan way, designed to allow for commonsense things to come to the floor, receive an up-or-down vote, for us to be able to actually move legislation that emerges from the Senate that is bipartisan in nature.” HOUSE ELECTS MIKE JOHNSON AS SPEAKER AFTER THREE WEEKS AT AN IMPASSE Jeffries held up the working relationship between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), in a 51-49 chamber where the minority has real power and most legislation requires 60 votes to pass, as the gold standard to which the House GOP should aspire. “But this is an issue right now for the Republicans to work out. It is the responsibility of the Republican majority to identify a speaker who can both achieve 217 under the current number of people who are in the House or hold and maintain 217,” the House Democratic leader continued. “And over the last week or so, the Republican majority has been unable to do either.” House Minority...