Kevin McCarthy would do anything to be House speaker. That's the problem
Leave aside the opposition to House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy from a few right-wing lawmakers whom even far-right pundit Mark Levin calls boneheads.
McCarthy should not be speaker of the House.
Just days before the new Republican-majority House is set to choose its speaker, McCarthy still lacks enough votes. The party defectors vow to join all Democrats to oppose the Californian for reasons not altogether clear and Donald Trumps endorsement notwithstanding.
Yet no plausible alternative is running, and certainly no Republican whod be a better choice than the spineless, shape-shifting McCarthy. My guess is his lieutenant, the second-ranking House Republican, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, might be dragooned for the job, much as a reluctant Paul Ryan was in 2015. Back then, McCarthy was the favorite to replace beleagured Speaker John Boehner, but he couldnt muster the votes amid a similar right-wing mutiny.
For now, most money remains on McCarthy. Yet since his rebuff seven years ago, he has only made it more clear that he does not deserve to hold Congress highest office and stand second in line to the presidency.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-12-30/kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-118th-congress
no_hypocrisy
(45,774 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,673 posts)Any candidate will be a compromise, and none will be qualified in the red-blooded American mainstream sense.
mahina
(17,506 posts)If she has that little respect for him I am very sure theres a good reason
gohuskies
(1,153 posts)Totally lacks a ethical bone in his body and mind. He is only interested in acquiring power at any cost. To have him or any other house rethuglican assume the speakership is proof of the lengths to which the GOP will go to install their fascist dystopia on to this nation. Rethuglican values are immorality, cruelty, racism and endless lying to gain and maintain power. The only positive I see coming out of tRumpism is that the GOP will eat there own eventually. Unfortunately, they will have their own uncivil war and damage the nation for decades. I only hope the DOJ and SC Smith indict and charge these criminals and the cabal that fostered tRumpism to face justice. That is my hope for 2023.
LuckyLib
(6,814 posts)Rethuglican values are immorality, cruelty, racism and endless lying to gain and maintain power.
republianmushroom
(13,056 posts)machoneman
(3,952 posts)...and has a subordinate doe so. Asshole that he is, he deserves no less!