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Kevin McCarthy is pretty excited about being 'O.K.' [1]

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Date: 2022-12-19

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s desperation level is ratcheting up as he fights to become speaker of the House. After weeks spent trying to woo the five far-right Republicans who’ve said they won’t vote for him for speaker, McCarthy is going on the offensive.

McCarthy has been lashing out at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell over McConnell’s willingness to work with Democrats on a government spending bill rather than blocking it until Republicans take control of the House. “They’re trying to jam us right before Christmas,” McCarthy said to Sean Hannity just last week. “Why would you ever move forward when there’s a change in power in 21 days where Republicans would have a stronger hand?”

Now McCarthy is saying it’s all the fault of the House Republican holdouts—Reps. Andy Biggs, Bob Good, Matt Gaetz, Matt Rosendale, and Ralph Norman—telling Hugh Hewitt, “People look at us and believe are you ready to be the majority if this is what’s happening? How can you pass the big bills? How can you change the course of history? How can you secure the border? How can you become energy independent? … It’s all in jeopardy.”

That’s … maybe less damning of the Biggs-Gaetz crew than he thinks it is, and more damning of McCarthy, the guy who wants the job of passing the big bills and changing the course of history(!), than he understood as he was speaking.

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