Exhuming McCarthy

I guess today's a good day for blowing things up. Putin dropped some bombs on Iran (by accident, maybe) -- undoubtedly making Sen. John McCain a very happy man. Then there's Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the current House majority leader, who set off his own bombshell when he told his House Republican caucus that he now isn't running for speaker of the House, and throwing the race to replace the irreplaceable John Boehner into utter chaos.

What buried McCarthy's chances? Some say it was when he committed the ultimate "Kinsley gaffe" and uttered the harsh truth on the never-ending bowl of Benghazi hearings, that it was all about lowering Hillary Clinton's poll numbers (something that she's quite capable of doing herself, thank you). I think it fell apart late Wednesday night, when Stephen Colbert revealed that English is McCarthy's 2nd language, or maybe his 4th. Clearly McCarthy was not ready for prime time.

So who is? The funny thing is that -- true story -- the speaker of the House doesn't have to be a sitting member of the House. On the other hand, of the two men that the House GOP caucus admires the most, one -- Zombie Ronald Reagan -- isn't actually living while the other (Putin) isn't an American citizen. Both of those things are problematic.

Look, the reality is that today's Republicans only know how to destroy things. If you don't believe me, look at what's happening in Harrisburg, our Little Washington-on-the-Susquehanna. Meanwhile, you can't blame the Democrats for this disaster flick that playing out right now on Capitol Hill. The Republicans don't believe in governing -- not even themselves -- yet they keep asking us to elect them to the government.

Why bother?