If there's one thing HBO host John Oliver enjoyed this week, it was the public "humiliation" of Jim Jordan as he desperately tried to clutch the Speaker's post that grew ever-increasingly out of his grasp.
After a quick attack on a former military official who had to be told by a CNN anchor that you can't starve people as a military tactic, the "Last Week Tonight" host turned to Congress.
"Jim Jordan went through three votes, enjoyably losing slightly more each time," said Oliver. "And at one point was photographed coming out of a closed-door meeting with a hand-written note reading: 'What is the real reason?' Which looks less like a bid to be Speaker and more like an early draft of a suicide note."
Even Jordan's supporters saw "no path" to victory for the fringe Republican. Jordan threatened retribution to those who refused to support him. Given the number of those who voted against him, it appears, they didn't care.
There was one member, however, who desperately attempted to spin the chaos as a positive for the Republican conference. But it came only after he attempted to blame Democrats for the whole ordeal.
"Our Democratic colleagues will not work with us on a single thing to secure the border," whined Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). "Not one thing!"
"You're the ones who can't get behind a candidate," quipped CNN's Manu Raju.
"We are laying this all out in public view," Roy continued. "And the American people can see it. It is the sausage getting made. It is the worst system except for all the others."
He then marched off with Raju, shouting after him, "You think this looks good?"
Oliver agreed; it definitely does not look good.
"And do not play that you're laying this mess out in public to be transparent about how the sausage is made," said Oliver. "It's getting laid out because you're incapable of making a sausage at all. When people go to the grocery store, they expect Oscar Meyer wieners, not Oscar Meyer's a pig's anus and other assorted animal parts."
Jordan was the second Speaker candidate endorsed by Donald Trump, who lost the race.
He went on to blast Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) for his relationship with his wife and their foreign entanglement scheme, which has earned them both an indictment.
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