Reporter to Rep Jason Chaffetz as he walked in, "how many voters are you gonna get?" Chaffetz reply: "more than you."
— jennifer steinhauer (@jestei) October 8, 2015
The standing “leadership” fustercluck has been a rich gift to snarkists, but seriously: The more energy these mopes expend scheming to destroy each other, the less they have to devote to destroying the American commonwealth for the rest of us.
I’m hoping this show runs longer than The Mousetrap in London. But with a higher body count!
(Complete with surprise twist, at the very end of this thread.)
Oh… http://t.co/aR4IiMpfo4 h/t @elspethreeve pic.twitter.com/ThDLFxhDkm
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) October 8, 2015
Elspeth Reeve, “The Republican House Today Was More Melodramatic Than High School“:
… “Before John Boehner stepped down, I said if John Boehner steps down, the same people who were trying to take John Boehner down, will try to frag the next guy. … Well, that is just what happened,” Representative Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania told National Journal. Fragging is when soldiers kill one of their own. It is a rather intense metaphor for guys walking around in Brooks Brothers suits. A more apt metaphor might be high school—it’s like prom, except conservative House Republicans dumped pig blood all over the prom queen…
The way the news broke was emblematic of the chaos that took hold today: The press found out about McCarthy’s withdrawal when Representative Ryan Costello bumbled out of this morning’s caucus meeting. “Apparently I broke the news about McCarthy; blame it on being a Freshman and going out the wrong door,” he tweeted…
@timkmak @markzbarabak Is it Eric Cantor?
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) October 8, 2015
GOP swept to power in '14 to prove they could govern country. They appear unable to govern themselves. @hillhulse http://t.co/I5pzaLBaqU
— Jonathan Weisman (@jonathanweisman) October 8, 2015
… Mr. McCarthy’s shocking move echoed the stunning events of December 1998, when another Republican speaker-in-waiting, Representative Robert L. Livingston of Louisiana, was forced to withdraw because of marital infidelities. Republicans scrambled to find an acceptable consensus pick, and J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois was plucked from out of almost nowhere to become speaker of the House.
Blindsided by the McCarthy withdrawal, Republicans were assessing their options Thursday even as Mr. Boehner sought to calm nerves by declaring that he would stay in the job until a replacement was found. But in 1998, House Republicans had a strongman in their majority whip, Tom DeLay of Texas, to rally the rank and file behind his choice. No such figure exists today…
everyone though Benghazi was gonna take down Clinton but actually it took down Kevin McCarthy
— Julian Hattem (@jmhattem) October 8, 2015
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