Late-night hosts discuss Kevin McCarthy’s historic failure to be elected speaker of the House and George Santos’s lies
Stephen Colbert: ‘It has been a day of pure uncut Peruvian blue flake Schadenfreude, watching the GOP stab each other in the throat.’Stephen Colbert: ‘It has been a day of pure uncut Peruvian blue flake Schadenfreude, watching the GOP stab each other in the throat.’Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert’s first monologue of 2023 coincided with the first day of the new Congress, in which Republicans took over the House and Kevin McCarthyto become its speaker. “It has been a day of pure uncut Peruvian blue flake Schadenfreude, watching the GOP stab each other in the throat,” the Late Show host said. “And tonight, I’ll peel back the many layers of the stupidity” in a segment titled “Ass Onion: A Kev’s Out Mystery.
McCarthy, a longtime Trump acolyte from California, has long wanted the job of speaker and seemed like a shoo-in in November. “But Kevin McCarthy has one major weakness: his weakness,” Colbert explained. Facing backlash from even farther-right members of his own party, McCarthy lost three votes, with even less support at the end.
“Remember, there’s more important things in life than winning or losing,” said Colbert. “There’s making fun of Kevin McCarthy for losing.”The House adjourned with no speaker – the first time in 100 years that a nominee for speaker did not win on the first vote. The “historic depants-ing” will continue on Wednesday, as McCarthy plans to continue voting to wear down his detractors until he wins the speaker’s gavel. “You know, Kevin, you can just buy a gavel.
Colbert also mocked the New York congressman George Santos, who during his campaign “lied about, and I’m rounding down here,
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