{"id":11266,"date":"2015-10-08T19:19:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T19:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11266"},"modified":"2015-10-08T19:19:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T19:19:33","slug":"does-anyone-want-the-speakers-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11266","title":{"rendered":"Does anyone want the speaker’s job?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When a politician becomes the butt of late-night comics’ jokes, well, that quite often spells the end of his of political ambition.<\/p>\n

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy had the bad form to suggest that the House Benghazi committee was formed — in effect — to torpedo Hillary Clinton’s chances of becoming president. He then followed that with a string of nonsensical statements about the former secretary of state’s tenure.<\/p>\n

The joke machine was then turned on … full blast.<\/p>\n

Today, McCarthy said he is dropping out of the race to become the next speaker of the House; John Boehner wants to leave Congress and the speakership at the end of the month.<\/p>\n

It now looks as though he’s going to stay on a while longer.<\/p>\n

Why? Because, his Republican Party leadership team is in shambles.<\/p>\n

McCarthy bows out<\/a><\/p>\n

Some of us out here are utterly dumbstruck by what’s happened back in our nation’s capital.<\/p>\n

McCarthy had a fight on his hands to become speaker. Two TEA Party insurgents, Jason Chaffetz of Utah and Daniel Webster of Virginia, were running against him for speaker.<\/p>\n

It’s true that McCarthy didn’t help himself when he made the statement about the Benghazi committee’s mission. In truth, he merely muttered what many of us out here beyond the Beltway believed all along, which is that the GOP formed the panel precisely to undercut Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Boehner, McCarthy, Benghazi panel chairman Trey Gowdy all deny that is their intent.<\/p>\n

Uh, huh. Whatever you say, gentlemen.<\/p>\n

Meantime, the lower congressional chamber is looking for a new Man of the House.<\/p>\n

Does anyone want this job? Can anyone do<\/em> the job?<\/p>\n\n

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