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This Speaker of the House Sh*tshow Is Far From Over
Kevin McCarthy's demise shows the Republican Party's id has completely destroyed its ego.

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE

Whoa, Nellie. That didn't take long.??

As shocked members left the room there was a sense of total disarray, with no clear path forward and no set date for a new vote.

Representative Peter King, Republican of New York, said that in dropping out of race, Mr. McCarthy told the room, "I'm not the one to unify the party." A group of about 40 hard-line House conservatives announced Wednesday night that they would support Representative Daniel Webster of Florida, making it unclear whether Mr. McCarthy could assemble the 218 votes on the floor that he would need to be elected later this month.

?There are all kinds of chickens coming home to roost. This development – which, I would point out, leaves Jason Chaffetz (R-Zygote) as the "moderate" choice for Speaker of the House, and third in line to be president of the United States – is the final justification for all of us who have been saying for a while now that there is no "extreme" wing of the Republican party any more. The prion disease has taken full hold of the party's higher functions. It is already being bruited about the monkeyhouse that Chaffetz may not be pure enough to satisfy the Freedom Caucus, the claque of angry gossoons who sank McCarthy the moment that McCarthy told the truth about what the House is up to with its hearings on Benghazi, Benghazi!, BENGHAZI! ?Let us have a look at some of the folks in the Freedom Caucus, shall we?

I could be googling forever here, but you get the point. The balance of power in half the national legislature now seems to be in the hands of the crème de la crazee. (This is such a mess at this point that Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from Wisconsin, and a man whose ambition makes Satan look like Uriah Heep, has done everything except hire a skywriter to say he's not interested.) Is this finally enough for the elite political press to notice that half the American political process is in full-blown dementia? Or does Jason Chaffetz have to lose, too?
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a38672/kevin-mccarthy-republicans-id-ego/