Exit strategery.

Meanwhile, Joseph Cannon puts an unsettling story about the steam tunnels under the Capitol next to a recently passed rule regarding the decapitation of government and comes up with a brutally elegant solution to pretty much every last one of the Republicans’ problems. —And while I am well aware that indulging in this sort of conspiracy-​mongering and irresponsible speculation is little more than a cheaply glowing pellet, nevertheless: we are all nutbar conspiracy theorists now. It would be irresponsible not to speculate.