'Obama would eat Labrador alive': Jake Tapper leads pun charge for potential House majority leader

Republican Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho will reportedly challenge Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of California for the House majority leader position:

BREAKING: LABRADOR IS IN

— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 13, 2014

LABRADOR: “I want a House Leadership team that reflects the best of our conference."

— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 13, 2014

Labrador gives McCarthy a challenger – but a limited window to campaign and few guarantees of getting beyond disorganized tea party wing

— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 13, 2014

Pretty much all we need to know from this point on is that Eric Cantor’s potential replacement for majority leader is named Labrador.

Jake Tapper, take it away:

Labrador enters the race, could be a real dogfight

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 13, 2014

McCarthy better just hope he's all bark

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 13, 2014

Talk about "Stop trying to make fetch happen," amirite?

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 13, 2014

Truth is, this announcement didnt come all that quickly. One could say he was a tarry-er.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 13, 2014

Tapper also retweeted these pun-tastic responses:

https://twitter.com/FirstTeamTommy/status/477510973688123392
https://twitter.com/TheNickSalazar/status/477510963009048577
https://twitter.com/FirstTeamTommy/status/477510808902316032

@jaketapper I feel like if he wins, he'll be on a pretty short leash

— Nick Vucic (@npv708) June 13, 2014

Canine O'Brien & Bob Barker with rabid response on C-SPANiel. “@jaketapper: Labrador enters the race, could be a real dogfight”

— Judge Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) June 13, 2014

@jaketapper I must emphasize that you people and your puns are re-pug-nant.

— Theo Littleton (@CptnJustc) June 13, 2014

I admire @jaketapper for just going for that joke. Although there have to be concerns that Labrador's too dogmatic https://t.co/zWgcNSKZna

— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) June 13, 2014

@jaketapper I think he might be barking up the wrong tree.

— Ben Voytas (@BenVoytas) June 13, 2014

@jaketapper Definitely a Golden opportunity to give the establishment paws

— Nick Vucic (@npv708) June 13, 2014

has politico or anyone else chimed in with view that obama would eat labrador alive?

— Nino (@baldingschemer) June 13, 2014

Well played!