Kevin McCarthy pulls out of House Speaker's race. Ooh, plot twist!

Courtesy of the New York Times: 

Representative Kevin McCarthy on Thursday abruptly took himself out of the race to succeed John A. Boehner as House speaker, apparently undone by the same forces that drove Mr. Boehner to resign. 

Mr. McCarthy’s candidacy was damaged when he suggested in an interview on Fox News last week that the House committee investigating Benghazi had the political aim of damaging Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign. 

As shocked members left the room there was a sense of total disarray, with no clear path forward and no set date for a new vote. Representative Peter King, Republican of New York, said that in dropping out of race, Mr. McCarthy told the room, “I’m not the one to unify the party.”

Holy smokes!

I have to admit that I did not see this coming.

I mean I thought he might lose, but not this.

So does this mean that it is Jason Chaffetz's for the taking, or is Tea party favorite Louie Gohmert going to jump in and give him a run for his money? 

All I know is that I am going to need some more popcorn stat!

Benghazi Committee Chair Trey Gowdy is probably not going to invite Kevin McCarthy to his birthday party.

During a Washington Post interview Trey Gowdy was asked his feelings concerning his good friend Kevi McCarthy who last week let the cat out of the bag concerning the reasons behind the Benghazi hearings: 

“I heard from him at 6 a.m. the next morning,” said Gowdy, whose name was recently floated for House majority leader. “How many times can somebody apologize? Yes, he’s apologized as many times as a human can apologize. It doesn’t change it. It doesn’t fix it. The only thing you can say is, instead of listening to someone else’s words, why don’t you look at our actions?” 

“Kevin is a friend, which makes the disappointment, frankly, even more bitter. If faith tells you to forgive somebody…” Gowdy trails off. “It’s tough,” he says after a moment. 

Oooh, somebody just got kicked out of the "No Girlz Allowed" all conservative boy's clubhouse.

After that rather painful exchange Gowdy suggests that, “People should go by what we’ve done. How many people have we interviewed? How many of those people have been named Clinton?”

Okay then let's do that.

They have not actually accomplished anything, except leak like a sieve to the press, and reveal that Hillary had a private e-mail server, which so far seems to have been far more secure than the State Department's which was hacked. 

Oh and as Kevin McCarthy so helpfully pointed out, they have helped to lower Hillary's poll numbers.

But other than that this investigation has been a witch hunt that is embarrassingly low on witches.

And let's also not forget that this is the eighth investigation into Benghazi, and the previous seven found NOTHING!

As for Kevin "loose lips" McCarthy it appears that he will very likely be elected as the next Speaker of the House where I imagine he will be the gift that keeps on giving.....to the Democrats.

And as for Gowdy himself, well once this is all over he still has one talent he can fall back on.