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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Fri Dec 30, 2022, 11:29 AM Dec 2022

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 Trump’s endorsement notwithstanding.

Yet no plausible alternative is running, and certainly no Republican who’d 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 couldn’t 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

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Kevin McCarthy would do anything to be House speaker. That's the problem (Original Post) Zorro Dec 2022 OP
Even Newt wasn't that craven. no_hypocrisy Dec 2022 #1
GOP has no consensus on anything bucolic_frolic Dec 2022 #2
Nancy and McCarthy had not spoken a single word in years. mahina Dec 2022 #3
McCarthy is a spineless & cynical traitor gohuskies Dec 2022 #4
This needs to resound throughout the nation: LuckyLib Dec 2022 #6
enjoying it republianmushroom Dec 2022 #5
Hope Nancy either a.) bops him on the head with the gavel or b.) refuses to hand it to him... machoneman Dec 2022 #7

bucolic_frolic

(42,673 posts)
2. GOP has no consensus on anything
Fri Dec 30, 2022, 11:40 AM
Dec 2022

Any candidate will be a compromise, and none will be qualified in the red-blooded American mainstream sense.

mahina

(17,506 posts)
3. Nancy and McCarthy had not spoken a single word in years.
Fri Dec 30, 2022, 11:43 AM
Dec 2022

If she has that little respect for him I am very sure there’s a good reason

gohuskies

(1,153 posts)
4. McCarthy is a spineless & cynical traitor
Fri Dec 30, 2022, 11:45 AM
Dec 2022

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)
6. This needs to resound throughout the nation:
Fri Dec 30, 2022, 05:53 PM
Dec 2022

“Rethuglican values are immorality, cruelty, racism and endless lying to gain and maintain power.”

machoneman

(3,952 posts)
7. Hope Nancy either a.) bops him on the head with the gavel or b.) refuses to hand it to him...
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 10:15 AM
Dec 2022

...and has a subordinate doe so. Asshole that he is, he deserves no less!

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