Tea Party Patriots

House and Senate return for the opening of the lame duck session … House and Senate GOP conferences hold leadership elections, and the only surprise is how many votes short of the Speakership Kevin McCarthy really is … a federal circuit court blocks President Biden’s student loan debt payoff scam … Trump declares for president, learns AG Garland has appointed a special counsel to take over the investigations aimed at him, and is welcomed back to Twitter … all this and more.