Choosing the Next Speaker

House Republicans will cast secret ballots on Thursday to elect their party's nominee to succeed House Speaker John Boehner, who is resigning at the end of the month.

As Republicans and their media allies scramble to contain the damage from Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) comments on Fox News, where he admitted the allegedly non-partisan Benghazi select committee was created to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s political career, note that the other key player in this story is the Beltway press. And like Republicans, reporters and pundits who have feasted off Benghazi — and the supposedly-related Clinton email story — now have a chance to come to terms with a new political reality.