Late-night hosts discuss yet another day of GOP dysfunction in the House, as McCarthy loses 11 votes to become speaker
Stephen Colbert on Kevin McCarthy: ‘He made this calculation: I could do the right thing, or I could be speaker. And now he gets neither, 10 times in a row.’Stephen Colbert on Kevin McCarthy: ‘He made this calculation: I could do the right thing, or I could be speaker. And now he gets neither, 10 times in a row.’Stephen Colbert
McCarthy’s repeated humiliation was “better than watching him lose an election because you get to watch him lose three times a day for apparently eternity”, Colbert laughed. “He knew what he was doing was wrong, and he did it anyway for his personal political power,” Colbert continued. “He made this calculation: I could do the right thing, or I could be speaker. And now he gets neither, 10 times in a row.”“McCarthy and the GOP were full of bravado about how they would seize the gavel as a show of Republican power and confront Joe Biden and the Democrats,” he explained.
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