Republican Equates ‘Embarrassing’ House Politics to ‘Herding Cats on Methamphetamine’

Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) joined Neil Cavuto on Tuesday to discuss the latest wild development in the ongoing GOP House speaker debacle – Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) withdrawing his name from contention after being nominated.

After discussing Emmer stepping aside, Cavuto asked, “What about Kevin McCarthy?”

“You know what? He did a great job. You know, yeah, there’s a lot of us in the conference that want that. But right now he’s not signaling to anyone that that’s anywhere that he’s at. He was firmly behind Tom Emmer before that. He was firmly behind Jim Jordan. I was behind Jim Jordan. I thought Jim Jordan presented our conference a very unique opportunity to come together as a party,” Flood replied.

After singing Jordan’s praises some more, Cavuto asked, “Are you worried about how this makes your party look Congress?”

“Not that this is your fault, I’m just saying that the way it looks is that if Republicans can’t govern among their own, how are they going to govern in that House, period?” Cavuto added.

“Well, it’s embarrassing and it needs to end now. I’ve said for a long time I don’t want to sit in a room in the basement of the U.S. Capitol and talk about our feelings,” Flood replied, adding:

The American people need us to govern. The soldiers, the sailors, the Marines that are potentially in harm’s way right now over in the Middle East. They’ve got a lot bigger things to worry about than sitting in a room trying to pick one capable Republican over another. People want us to pick and they want us to move on. And when I was in Nebraska on Sunday, I could see the anxiety in some of my constituents’ faces, people that I’ve known for a long time. And they’re just nervous. They’re worried.

After a discussion about loyalty pledges for GOP candidates, Cavuto returned to the race for speaker and asked, “Are you interested?”

“I was speaker. I was speaker of the Nebraska unicameral legislature, which, by the way, is officially nonpartisan,” Flood replied, adding:

It’s like herding cats on methamphetamine. And and when I got to Washington, I thought the unicameral followed me to Washington, D.C. No party discipline, no party leadership. It reminds me a little bit of 49 individual state senators running around. But no, I think I need a little bit more than 15 months to do that job.

“Yeah, you might have disparaged cats with that analogy there,” quipped Cavuto as the interview wound down.

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