Kevin McCarthy?

[BKDem]

Give me Steny Hoyer or give me death.

[ChubbyStar]

1. He's a cowardly asshole

Has not spent one second talking about the reason for this Impeachment. He is weak sauce.

[Va Lefty]

2. Perfect leader for the freedumb caucus

[BigmanPigman]

3. He speaks, then they vote on one article,

then Nancy speaks and they vote on the other article.

[wendyb-NC]

4. Yes, indeed.

This guy has to go.

[uppityperson]

5. It's only hours before Christmas?????

[Brother Buzz]

6. He's from Bakersfield

It is what it is.

[BKDem]

7. Oh god.

Bakersfield? How utterly dreary.

[El Supremo]

8. Wow! Just dis the whole City!

[Brother Buzz]

10. Merle Haggard resonates with me a whole lot more

I spent a lot of miserable days in Bakersfield; I'd rather get stuck in Lodi again.

[BKDem]

11. Sorry. I grew up in an even worse place.

Are you ready?

Fontana. Home of the Hell’s Angels and, for a few years at least, Kaiser Steel.

Santa Ana winds and tumbleweeds. It’s not just Bakersfield. It’s most of San Bernardino County.

I apologize for dissing them, but not for leaving.

[El Supremo]

12. I worked in Bakersfield and Kern County.

Full of good, hard working normal people. Unlike most of the rest of the state.

[BKDem]

13. I'm prepared to believe that.

I know my grandmother loved Kern County and she was a good, normal person. I’m not sure I was ever there. I was good with Orange County, but only through the late 50s. I guess I’m a very judgmental person.

[Brother Buzz]

14. But, but Fontana has the California Speedway

That's got to count for something.

And speaking of the Santa Ana winds, this is absolutely the best opening paragraph in any hard boiled detective story, bar none:

"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge." - Raymond Chandler, Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories

[BKDem]

15. Wow, thank you for that.

Or, thanks to Raymond Chandler. He nailed it.

FYI, the speedway was built on the land where the steel mill once stood. Fontana was marketed (yes, marketed) in the 1920s as an agrarian utopia of orange groves and chicken ranches, but in the 40s, the town lobbied to become the site of the only the steel mill west of the Mississippi, to supply the steel needed for Liberty Ships launched in Long Beach. The character of the agrarian utopia soon changed, and the Hell’s Angels ensued.

But the Santa Ana winds blew on.

[OneBlueDotBama]

9. Never Gorget, McCarthy claimed Putin paid trump

I swear to God....

House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump

KIEV, Ukraine — A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html

[KentuckyWoman]

16. He's true to his name.

I've known a few good McCarthy's that spend a lot of time trying to overcome the stigma of the name.
Kevin embraces the legacy.