House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) dared those in his caucus making noise about opposing his speakership to keep up the act, warning that Democrats could end up picking the next speaker if House Republicans don’t come together.
Kevin McCarthy might squeak through and become speaker, but ultimately he will become an early, miserable failure. Let’s just say he doesn’t possess the required wisdom and leadership skills required… Begs the question “Who is really playing games?”
I question, who is more dangerous, Kevin McCarthy who has no ideology and will do whatever will give him power or someone with an ideology that is distasteful but at least has some “compass” to guide them other then personal gain and lust for power?
Perhaps if he does, we should call him the Squeaker.
Squealer Squeaker Speaker?
And call Gym J the Squeamer?
The Republicans are the ones playing games. They’re not very good at it.
…the Democrats can end up picking who the Speaker is.”
Why do I get the impression english is not his first language?
“Squeaker of the House Kevin McCarthy” is a keeper.
Shirker
Qevin doesn’t want to actually do anything as Speaker. He just wants to be Speaker. And no abject humiliation is going to stand between him and that gavel.
How many Scaramucci’s will his speakership last?
Under current House rules, the speaker serves for the full two year term of congress (only the speaker or one of his/her pro tem nominees may permit a vote to vacate the position). But being bloodthirsty idiots, some of the whackjobier loons in the freedom caucus are demanding that they change the rules such that any member may call for a vote to vacate the speakership.
Democrats should come with a list of demands from McCarthy threatening to vote for whoever opposes him, that is really McCarthy’s best chance, dump the crazies and the troglodytes and make a deal with democrats.
Squalid and squishy come to mind too…
It’s just kind of amazing (but also unsurprising) that of course no one, including the media, is saying just that. Everyone is going along with the crazy caucus bending Kevin to their will.
Revenge on the Dems. But for what? With Biden there is no Xi situation with the country ready to riot. There is no Putin situation with potential rivals falling out windows and a senseless war. Employment is good. The economy is bumpy, but how would Kevin make that better with Austerity? What we have is a party intent on tearing down centuries-old institutions with a few suggestions from our oligarchs as to what might go in its place. I don’t know what to call it. It’s not vandalism. Indeed, the Vandals were noted for their leisurely and selective plundering.
For fourteen days, the Vandals slowly and leisurely plunder the city of its wealth. Everything was taken down from the Imperial Palace on the Palatine Hill, and the churches were emptied of their collected treasures," Jacobsen wrote.
Under the old definition, whatever Kevin wants isn’t Stalinism. Ron Johnson wants Putinism, but he is in the minority ranks of the GOP.
To Brzezinski and Friedrich, totalitarian rule was an extreme form of authoritarianism possessing six characteristics: an all-encompassing ideology, a single party, a terroristic police, a communications monopoly, a weapons monopoly and a centrally directed economy. All six were necessary to fit the bill of totalitarian. Absent one, and the definition was not fulfilled. Stalin’s Soviet Union was the premier case. Nazi Germany, with its only partially centralized economy, was a close second. Putin’s Russia is moving alarmingly closer, but it still lacks some of totalitarianism’s key features.
We have to speak as one voice.
And the Republican value of rugged individualism goes down in flames too.
The California Republican now says he will do whatever it takes to be the next speaker.
“We have purchased new knee pads for the Congressman,” an aide said, noting that his last pair were inadvertently left at Mal-o-Lardo during a recent visit.
It looks like the last of the Young Guns is imploding. Adios MoFo.
