David Axelrod actually said...

"I think Kevin McCarthy stands a very good chance of getting run out of the Speakership."

"This was winning ugly. This was not what they planned. This was a mess."

"But the outcome, they came to, embraced many of the goals of the people who you call bomb throwers, and it basically emasculated the Speaker or the speaker to be, if he is to be, and he is going to be..."

"I think if the group that drove this whole deal this week become prominent figures in the next two years, that a lot of those moderate or more moderate Republican, Senate right Republicans, particular..."