McCarthy Fumes After Failed Effort To Boot Swalwell From Intel Committee | Talking Points Memo

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) fumed late Thursday after the House voted against his resolution to remove Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) from the House intelligence committee due to his contact over six years ago with a suspected Chinese spy who is alleged to target American lawmakers. 


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“All of this to deflect from @GOPLeader’s support for QAnon and the January 6th insurrection,” Swalwell wrote.

Fixed

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Neither embarrassment nor lack of truth will keep Qevin from his appointed rounds. Repubs see Swalwell as a threat. They should. Repubs are in trouble.

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Kevin McCarthy is the Charlie McCarthy of Joe McCarthys.

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I sure do wish that Twitter would simply be removed from reporting, TPM included.

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Stomp and Shout, that’s all Kevin’s got.

It sucks to be Kevin McCarthy.

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Wah,wah,wah, Qevin is mad he can’t get his own way. Boohoo.

Temper tantrums always help the situation.

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I think would be even worse to be his progeny.

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He has a pretty cush life for someone I’d regret hiring to mow my yard.

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If Kevin is the Charlie of Joe McCarthys, who is the Edgar Bergen?

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Another thing to thank the former president for. I wish Twitter was as irrelevant as it ought to be, too. I can barely stand that platform – it’s like trying to follow all the conversations in a mall food court from the top of the escalators.

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I don’t like Kevin McCarthy…

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A friend of mine said of a particularly useless University General Counsel, “The best parts of his daddy ran down his momma’s thigh.”

What made this particularly cutting was that the friend in question knew both son and father (who preceded his son as General Counsel).

I believe the same comment could be made of Kevin McCarthy.

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Whataboutism distraction.

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Trump !

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What committees does Devin Nunes sit on?

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likely unwitting contact with the alleged spy

vs

I think there are two people Putin pays

STFU Qev

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There are other candidates: I’m pretty sure Kevin is a Kochsucker, and there are the Mellons and Rupert Murdoch, too.

ETA: Uncle Vlad (h/t @clutchcargo).

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‘‘McCarthy Fumes’’ will be his standard MO going forward. It’s not worth rising to the bait.

[heading off for coffee]

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