I have to get ready to go to the dentist (fun, fun) so I can’t do a post on Kevin McCarthy’s decision to withdrawal from the Speaker race. I will say, quickly, that you’ll see that I was right to be highly skeptical at the outset that he would ever be able to become the next Speaker and also that I was wrong about how much his comments about Benghazi would hurt him. However, if you realize that I thought he was doomed before he made the Benghazi comments, you’ll understand that I don’t think it was a necessary or decisive issue.
When I do get a chance to write about this, I’m going to be going back to how the GOP can’t fit a parliamentary Congress into a binary box. The Dems belong in the majority along with the Republicans who want to pave our roads and pay our bills on time. The logic of this will win out eventually, but probably not this time unless they go to an unending number of ballots and can’t find a Republican who can get 218.
