McCarthy: House GOP May 'Have To Hit Rock Bottom'

[CatWoman]

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told the National Review that the House Republican conference may "have to hit rock bottom" before the chamber fully functions again.

National Review's Rich Lowry asked McCarthy if the House was governable.

"I don’t know. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom," McCarthy responded.


McCarthy told National Review that he had been considering dropping out of the speaker's race for the last week after his comment about the political success of the Benghazi committee, but decided to "push through."




http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kevin-mccarthy-decision-to-drop-out

[underpants]

1. They hit rock bottom in 2006

But they were enabled by a drama starved press and gerrymandering

[CatWoman]

3. are you saying that "Speaker Gohmert"

is becoming more and more of a reality?

[Bucky]

4. That's just two heartbeats away from not being funny

[underpants]

11. Post FAIL

You can't put "Gohmert" and "reality" in the same post

[CatWoman]

12. HA!!!

[0rganism]

2. well, mission accomplished, good sir!

or perhaps i really don't know how much further there is to go. i do recommend some kind of fire-retardant protective clothing when they break through to the Earth's mantle, though.

[sufrommich]

5. You usually only hear that nugget when referring to drug addicts

and alcoholics.

[hifiguy]

6. The depths to which they have already sunk are unmeasurable.

I have every confidence they can keep sinking to new lows. Forever.

Maybe they will hit Taiwanese depths of silliness?

[trotsky]

7. Yeah and unfortunately thanks to their expert gerrymandering...

they're going to take the country down with them.

[joeybee12]

8. Rock bottom? They're already 20 feet under that rock?

Yeesh!

[hifiguy]

17. They're already at the bottom of the Marianas Trench

and beavering away at the tunnel from there. They should be hitting Robot Hell any day now.

[joeybee12]

19. Amen! nt

[gratuitous]

9. Hitting rock bottom is preferable to the alternative

Which would be doing the job you all campaigned for and that you were elected to do. Nope, rather than govern, it's preferable to McCarthy and the Republican caucus to let the House simply collapse.

[rbrnmw]

10. They hit that years ago eom......

[Trajan]

13. The question is: when will the American voter hit rock bottom

And STOP voting for these ridiculous numbskulls ...

STOP voting against your interests!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

14. But there's still stuff crawling under the rocks we haven't voted for yet.

[JI7]

15. shouldn't the resignation announcement have been made after they made sure

they had someone who would be able to get most of the members votes ?

[tanyev]

16. Homer jumps the gorge.

[hifiguy]

18. Or this guy....