AP - It is gallows humor time for Republicans in Congress, where one lawmaker jokes that 'there's talk about us going the way of the Whigs,' the 19th century political party long extinct.

AP - It is gallows humor time for Republicans in Congress, where one lawmaker jokes that 'there's talk about us going the way of the Whigs,' the 19th century political party long extinct.

AP - It is gallows humor time for Republicans in Congress, where one lawmaker jokes that 'there's talk about us going the way of the Whigs,' the 19th century political party long extinct.

AP - It is gallows humor time for Republicans in Congress, where one lawmaker jokes that 'there's talk about us going the way of the Whigs,' the 19th century political party long extinct.

AP - It is gallows humor time for Republicans in Congress, where one lawmaker jokes that 'there's talk about us going the way of the Whigs,' the 19th century political party long extinct.

AP - It is gallows humor time for Republicans in Congress, where one lawmaker jokes that 'there's talk about us going the way of the Whigs,' the 19th century political party long extinct.

AP - It is gallows humor time for Republicans in Congress, where one lawmaker jokes that 'there's talk about us going the way of the Whigs,' the 19th century political party long extinct.