High noon for Speaker Mike Johnson, and that's the subject of the riff.
It was high-noon drama today on the floor of the House of Representatives, as Michael Johnson was finally re-elected to be speaker in the 119th Congress by a vote of 218–215.
It may be a wee bit of a stretch, but all of this kind of reminded me of the great cowboy movie "High Noon" — starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. Cooper won an Oscar for his role, where he had to clean out the bad guys, and, in fact, at the end of the movie...