Pic Of The Moment: The Genius Of Kevin McCarthy

[EarlG]

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[niyad]

1. Be careful what you wish for, you Arrogant twit.

[leftieNanner]

2. He is dumb as a rock

And way less useful.

Truly a stupid man.

Enjoying your posts.

[underpants]

5. I had heard that wasn't sure if it was exaggerated. It's not.

I heard comments about how McCarthy wasn’t very smart or savvy and those comments appear to be true.

He’s really 3rd string. Boehner saw what was coming and bailed. Paul Ryan openly said he didn’t want the lead position but took it anyway aaaand then bailed. McCarthy was literally just standing there.

[leftieNanner]

6. If you have ever heard him speak

You would know what an imbecile he is.

Rachel did a segment on this a few years ago. He spoke of going to "Hungria" in a press conference. It goes well beyond malapropisms. He uses words that aren't words. I'll see if I can find it. It's very funny, in a terrifying way.

[rsdsharp]

14. He once said Hillary was "untrustable."

[leftieNanner]

15. I think he said

She was "untrustable".

[rsdsharp]

16. That's what I wrote, but auto correct changed it when I hit post.

I immediately corrected it, but you must have seen it while I was editing.

[leftieNanner]

18. Yeah. My spell check didn't like it either. :) Nt

[vanlassie]

20. The Pride of Bakersfield. 😵‍💫

[dalton99a]

23. "The Worst Place to Breathe in America"

https://time.com/3399134/air-pollution-climate-change-bakersfield-caifornia/

[vanlassie]

26. No Shit. Being from Fresno, I can say that.

But seriously. He went to college in Bakersfield. Do you think he has ever travelled?

[haele]

30. Back in the 2000's he made his way in politics positioning himself as ...

...a savvy self-made businessman who dropped out of college to start a successful sandwich shop that expanded. What made him popular in the GOP circles was that he came from a "liberal leaning Democratic family" (unusual at the time), decently good looking, and was "charming" in an easygoing country lawyer sort of way. Had just enough education to sound smart, but not so much he sounded elite. He also worked really hard to listen and figure out where the bodies were hidden before he opened his mouth. Very much like Paul Ryan.

However, I'm thinking booze and sullen resentment both at the way the GQP has embraced the crazy and Nancy Pelosi's effective leadership has gone to his head over the past 8 years or so. He's not a True Believer, he's an old school Chamber of Commerce Glad-hander who just wants to have the title and pretend he's in charge, but not be bothered all that much with the responsibility of real governance. He would let the committees and majority floor votes do the work, he just wants to be a facilitator.

And everyone in the GOP hierarchy is perfectly willing to make him the "sane face" fall guy for lobbyists and other monied interests.

Haele

[underpants]

32. Good background

Thanks

[True Dough]

3. Kevin has dug his hole

with a backhoe, not a shovel.

[nuxvomica]

4. Kudos for finding a picture of him having an idea

That must've been hard to find.

[republianmushroom]

7. How is it going kevin,

not so good, huh. Well that is the price of the speaker ship you bough and sold.

[orangecrush]

8. Thanks EarlG

For your great memes, and all you do to make DU happen.

[Kennah]

9. Shot down in a blaze of glory

But as Ranger Parker said in "Hell or High Water":

Well, I've seen you shoot. There won't be much glory in it.

[GenThePerservering]

22. More like "Young Twits"

a pretty sad lot.

[Kennah]

27. The Aussies would use a different word

[gratuitous]

10. Good, uh, "thinking" there, Kevy

Surely after you appease the Nitwit Caucus once, they'll be happy with their political pelt and won't come back asking for more, and certainly not when you desperately need every last vote on a crucial bit of legislation.

[robbob]

11. That Politico line about Democrats "using it as a cudgel

to portray Republicans as dangerous radicals” is so infuriatingly typical of mainstream media coverage. No matter what crazy thing Republicans do, like trying to overthrow an election, for example, the “Democrats” are just playing politics. I swear to god, the ReThugs could propose taking illegal immigrant children and grinding them up into meat pies, and the MSM would talk about Dem’s gleefully using the issues as a “cudgel” to portray them in a bad light.

We’re not allowed to be outraged by the GOP being outrageous; it’s all just politics…

[GenThePerservering]

24. I believe a cudgel to be the right method

in cases like these - after all, one can't actually *reason* with these nut jobs.

[Cha]

12. They are "Dangerous Radicals, politico.

TY

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. It's not a matter of how they're portrayed; Republicans ARE dangerous radicals.

The biggest threat the U.S. faces is the Republican party.

[Hekate]

17. As James Carville said about "Santos" -- "Keep him around and beat him like a pinata"...

Someone asked Carville about how the Dems could get rid of that weird little psycho (my words) and he said that Santos would be more useful to Dems if kept right in the public eye.

We may well be at that point with Kevin McCarthy. Bat him around like a troll.

[GenThePerservering]

25. This right here

Kev and his Khaos.

[KS Toronado]

19. One big problem I see with his 30% tax plan

FQX and the like will not educate their viewers about it because they'll get mad and most of MSM shy away from
it because it makes reQublicans look stupid and that's who they want in charge. We could use some new
messaging plans going toward 2024.

[czarjak]

21. Time for Plan B From Outer Space.

[lees1975]

28. It will be interesting to see how many Republicans decide that their re-election chances lie with

breaking ranks and voting against McCarthy's extremist agenda. I think we'll get to about 10 or 11 of those on some major issues, including the debt ceiling.

[Initech]

29. The inmates have taken over the asylum.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. K&R