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| Rep. Kevin McCarthy |
Over at the NY Times, economist Paul Krugman gets the word out:
So Representative Kevin McCarthy, who was supposed to succeed John Boehner as speaker of the House, won’t be pursuing
the job after all. He would have faced a rough ride both winning the
post and handling it under the best of circumstances, thanks to the
doomsday caucus — the fairly large bloc of Republicans demanding that
the party cut off funds to Planned Parenthood, or kill Obamacare, or
anyway damage something liberals like, by shutting down the government
and forcing it into default.
Still,
he finished off his chances by admitting — boasting, actually — that
the endless House hearings on Benghazi had nothing to do with national
security, that they were all about inflicting political damage on
Hillary Clinton.
But we all knew that, didn’t we?
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