This is what the GOP pundits are saying about their own:

“The GOP’s performance nicely reprises that scene in Animal House where the marching band turns into a blind alley and row after row of plumed morons plows into a brick wall, crumbling to the ground in an unceremonious heap.”

“With one difference: House Republicans are unplumed.”

- Charles Krauthammer, nightly panelist on Fox News’s Special Report with Bret Baier.

Keep in mind, in the Animal House movie, the band was commandeered by Stork, pictured above, and he took them off course and into the alley way. So for this metaphor, Stork is the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party.

And to make it more perfect, the line from the movie:

“During his first year, everyone thought the Stork was brain damaged”