Update: Kevin McCarthy, "the New Dan Quayle?"

On Wednesday I shared a story  about House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R) admitting that Benghazi Committee #8 has nothing to do with the loss of American lives and everything to do with defeating Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Update:  

"As the uproar continued yesterday, McCarthy and GOP leaders spent the day scrambling to undo the damage.  That included the California Republican sitting down with Fox News' Bret Baier in the hopes of putting out the fire. McCarthy, the likely next Speaker of the House, stuck to an awkwardly worded script...

...On a rhetorical level, McCarthy didn't exactly inspire confidence.  At one point in the interview, he said, 'It wasn't what I, in my mind, was saying out there.'  Good to know.

Behind the scenes, some Republican insiders are quietly starting to refer to McCarthy as 'the new Dan Quayle.'  I don't think they mean it as a compliment...

...Senate Democratic leaders, meanwhile, urged Boehner yesterday to shut down the committee, ending this farce.  The outgoing Speaker is unlikely to pull the plug, however, on his own party's taxpayer-funded election stunt."

eye'm thynkin':  When you have become your own party's punchline, can you really expect people to respect any conclusions your committee may reach?  The "new Dan Quayle" indeed.

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