Lou Costello’s catch-phrase was “I’m a bad boy.”
I wonder if any of these three goombahs can be trained to say it.
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No, it happened at work. I know better. I never talk politics at work.
But I didn’t think my sharing factual information (Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ statement) was a political or a “cancel culture” statement. Apparently others did. The heated discussion grew to included other issues. To our CEO’s credit, he did apologize and said that I did not deserve what was said to me.
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They are still “brave” in groups. One on one, they aren’t near as chatty.
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McCarthy might actually learn something if he read more of Dr. Seuss’s books. For example, “The Lorax” was an allegory about corporate greed and pollution. Lou Dobbs ranted against the movie made based on that book as “anti-business.” Seuss had some serious blind spots about race, as did most White people of his generation. But he was a basically a staunch liberal.
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600 pages
reading level about grade 12
On the other hand, Dr Seuss.
maybe a dozen pages
reading level about grade 3
McCarthy demonstrates: Republicans don’t want to read or think.
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Or better yet away go to Tierra del Fuego…
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So where does he get off thinking that the government has any say in what the press does? How long before he is begging for the equivalent of the fairness doctrine without the justification of limited channels?
His actual problem is not that the conservatives are censored: they can congregate in other settings and talk to each other all they want. Their real problem is that nobody else wants to listen to their bullying.
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He’s doing the rightwing version of virtue signalling.
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What’s the centrist version of virtue-signaling?
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Kevin McCarthy is the dimmest of dim bulbs.
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‘I’m being reasonable here.’
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Hit ’em where it hurts?
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In better news - after Chuck Schumer refused to quit for the evening, Senate Republicans left the chamber anyway. When enough had departed to leave Democrats a 2/3 majority in the Senate, Schumer filed cloture on the nomination of Merrick Garland for US Attorney General.
Garland’s nomination will go before the entire Senate next week. Only a simple majority is required for approval.
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Is it just me, or are we actually winning battles here? 
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That is true. Geisel (Seuss) supported FDR, was against McCarthism, was pro-choice, etc., but he really was a racist during WWII.
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Facts (and science, and arithmetic) are known to have a liberal bias.
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Where is Moscow Mitch in all this? If he still fancies himself to be an LBJ-level “Master of the Senate”, you’d think he’d be paying a bit more attention.
You know sure as Hell old Lyndon would never have left the chamber like that.
I’m almost getting this vibe like their (shriveled little) hearts aren’t in it.
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I admire his grit and determination.
McCarthy is tired of winning and, by golly, he’s doing something to fix the problem.
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Given that filthy Kevin McCarthy has so many cognitive, intellectual, social, behavioral, judgement and ethical deficits, it is nice to see evidence that he can read at the reading-level of a Dr. Seuss book.
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I see this as the PERFECT metaphor for the state of both political parties;
The Democratic Party is working late into the night to do the people’s business, addressing pressing needs in healthcare, economics, infrastructure, voting rights, etc.
The Republican Party is obsessively whining and “rending it’s clothing” about a private company’s decision to stop selling a few old, out of date, obscure Children’s Books.
That’s the two parties in a nutshell.
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