Jake Tapper Tells Seth Meyers the House GOP ‘Seem to Enjoy’ Being the Least Productive Congress Since the Depression

CNN’s Jake Tapper stopped by NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote his upcoming series The United States of Scandal, but host Seth Meyers wanted to know what the hell was happening in Congress.

Congress is one of Tapper’s most-covered subjects on his show, The Lead, especially when they fail to achieve anything at all. Meyers brought up the unproductive nature of the House of Representatives by starting with the baseless impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas:

Meyers: So one of the things that happened this week, there was now a success. Well, it took two tries. But, Secretary Mayorkas, was impeached —

Tapper: Yes.

Meyers: By the House. It’s going to go nowhere in the Senate.

Tapper: Nowhere.

Meyers: The House knows that.

Tapper: Yes.

Meyers: They did it anyway.

Tapper: They did.

Meyers: And why? Why? What’s going on, Jake?

Tapper: I think that they wanted to make a political point.

Meyers: Do you feel like it lands with their voters when they make these political points where nothing actually happens?

Tapper: I hope so, because I don’t know why they’re doing it otherwise.

From there, the conversation about the House GOP became almost chaotically existential:

Meyers: Now, this is a House that is literally getting nothing done.

Tapper: It is the least productive Congress since the Great Depression.

Meyers: And it does not strike me that they’re upset about that.

Tapper: No!

Meyers: It feels like this is 100 percent the plan.

Tapper: They really do seem to enjoy it. Yeah. You know, there was the whole thing that happened with the foreign aid bill, where the Senate Republicans demanded they add border measures to it. So these three senators worked really hard to come up with a compromise bill. And then they said “no.” And then the people in the House of Representatives said… “[W]e will only pass this if it has the border security measures.” And the people that had worked on it said, “Yes, but you said no.” Anyway, it’s just a chaotic situation. It’s not fun to explain it. It’s actually confusing.

Meyers: It’s confusing!

Tapper: It’s confusing.

Meyers: They’re a confusing bunch of loons!

Watch the whole conversation via Late Night with Seth Meyers on YouTube.