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McCarthy tries to paper over his election disaster by dictating House policy [1]
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Date: 2022-11-11
Yelling louder isn't going to get you there, Kev.
Votes are still being counted to determine who is going to have the majority in the House of Representatives, with a clear path still open to Democrats. Meanwhile, wannabe-Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, who hasn’t even managed to win over his own people to secure his leadership spot, is trying to pretend like he’s in charge.
McCarthy, who is not leader of the House and right now doesn’t even look like the leader of his fractious conference, wrote a nasty letter to the House clerk, Capitol Police chief, architect of the Capitol, sergeant-at-arms, and other administrative officials demanding that they immediately start to work on his agenda—reopening the Capitol—and present him a plan for how they’ll have it done by Jan. 3, 2023. Never mind that there’s still a COVID-19 pandemic, and that they’re all going to be kind of busy getting the complex ready for an influx of new members and everything that comes with the opening of a new session.
And never mind that this is absolutely not true: “Earlier this week, our country voted for new leadership,” he wrote. Points for unmitigated, belligerent, and misguided hubris, I guess.
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