When it gets to a 9th vote I think that will equal the 1923 Speaker's race for number of votes. There has been no change in the anti-McCarthy vote today. It is the same bloc of 21. It started as the Taliban-19 and is now the Taliban-21. Not one anti- has switched to McCarthy through eight votes. Thick as a cow though he is, even a cow, or a Russian, would see the futility of more votes without a deal with the anti-'s. It is sheer madness to continue this.