Except for my dream where you keep losing over and over again (Sad-atar: The Way of Loser)

January 2023

“Kevin McCarthy still hasn’t given up. His speaker battle has become seemingly an endless gripping drama and an epic spectacle. If they made it into a movie it would be called Sad-atar: The Way of Loser.” —Stephen Colbert

“But despite having no apparent path to victory, McCarthy has said he will not back down. In an interview following his defeats, McCarthy assured reporters that there was no way he’d consider not trying to become speaker. Oh, Kevin. Let it go. Don’t you know that one of the most important things about dreams is sometimes they die? Except for my dream where you keep losing over and over again.” —Stephen Colbert

“Meanwhile, Matt Gaetz, one of the Republicans who have opposed McCarthy’s speakership, released a statement criticizing McCarthy’s pre-emptive move into the office: What is the basis in law, House rule, or precedent to allow someone who has placed second in three successive speaker elections to occupy the Speaker of the House Office? I can’t believe I’m actually going to say this, but … Matt Gaetz is right. Well, I mean, that’s weird, but you know what they say: even a broken clock would be a much better congressman than Matt Gaetz.” —Stephen Colbert

“So far, McCarthy has put a brave face on his historic, once-in-a-century curb stomp. As McCarthy told reporters following the votes: ‘Was it the day I wanted to have? No.’ That’s a pretty mild way to assess the worst day of his political career.” —Stephen Colbert

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