Some House Republicans were crying after McCarthy withdrew from the speaker’s race
From WAPO:
“It is total confusion — a banana republic,” said Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), a Boehner ally, as he recounted seeing a handful of House Republicans weeping Thursday over the downfall of McCarthy and the broader discord. “Any plan, anything you anticipate, who knows what’ll happen. People are crying. They don’t have any idea how this will unfold at all.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/08/the-speaker-chase-whos-next/
From NPR:
Republicans said the Pledge and then McCarthy stood up and took himself out of the race. The prohibitive favorite said he didn't want members to take arrows for voting for him and that he was taking himself out of contention.
Speaker Boehner then immediately moved to adjourn the meeting. Rooney said there was "total shock" and some members were audibly crying.
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/08/446889538/mccarthy-drops-out-of-speaker-race-throwing-gop-leadership-into-chaos
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Mah gunz and mah freedumbs whaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
I'd like to buy him a glass of Merlot. 
Or a beer since we don't seem to stock Merlot at DU.
The crazies will remain adamant that a teabagger must be speaker, the rest will fight it, and secret talks (as in "this conversation never happened!"
will take place between non-teabagger Republicans and moderate Democrats to see if enough Democrats would back a moderate Republican. The reason for this is twofold: with their minority status, a Democratic Speaker will never be elected by this House. Therefore, whichever way they vote, a Democrat does not become Speaker. Ergo, if a few dozen of them back a moderate Republican, they whack the teabaggers either into place or into a splinter party, both of which are perfectly acceptable--but not likely.
After all the common sense solutions are exhausted, I figure emotion and fatigue will carry the day, and a "compromise" speaker will be found. He will not appear to be as extreme as the crazies want, but will be much further to the right than the majority wants to be. The majority will bend over and take it in the ass rather than be seen as working with Democrats for the good of the House and the nation. We get a nut case in moderate's clothing, and paralysis, which many politicians prefer to taking a solid position that could be used to attack them in their next primary. Every single Republican in the House knows who Eric Cantor is, and why he's not there any more.
Sorry for the pessimism, but I grew up with DC politics. Substitute meanness and anger for common sense, and you get, well, meanness and anger.
;P