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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Kevin McCarthy- 2023 Update [1]
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Date: 2023-11-01
On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day" profiled the U.S. House Representative from California's 23rd Congressional District, Kevin McCarthy, who has served for it since 2007, and the man who was supposed to be the heir-apparent to become Speaker of the House after the resignation of John Boehner, until he botched his debut taking the spotlight by boasting about how he had done a great job as one of the Republicans who started the Benghazi hearings which had successfully driven down Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers… which gave away the game the GOP were playing for three years with the topic. It also didn’t help that McCarthy is one of the WORST public speakers in all of Congress (highlights here, courtesy of Rachel Maddow), or that he was also rumored to be having an affair with his colleague, Rep. Renee Ellmers. Even prior to his catastrophic attempt at becoming House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy has a long, long history of dumbassery within his legislative career, including co-sponsoring legislation in 2007 to stop the “War on Christmas” by passing a bill to recognize the importance of Christmas and Christianity, and signing onto a letter from the Family Research Council pledging that he agrees with them that gay candidates should be barred from public office, and he will never support any of them. That should come as little surprise, as McCarthy and his wife have been interviewed together and have talked openly about how they feel how people "don't want them to have their right to be a Christian" in America today. Throw in twice voting to defund Planned Parenthood, voting against equal pay for women consistently, and voting against raising the debt ceiling, and you really start to get a big picture of how a box of rocks would get a higher SAT score than Kevin McCarthy. In the build-up to the 2016 election, McCarthy was trying to appease the lunatics in his party by promising publicly to turn a prospective Hillary Clinton administration into a never-ending line of hearings about faux-scandals, and teasing that they might vote on impeachment.
Kevin McCarthy was in the 2016 elections, coming from the most conservative district in California, and has proceeded to continue to shoot his mouth off and embarrass his party, including his admission that he was indifferent about a White Nationalist like Steve Bannon serving as an advisor to the President of the United States, or when audio of him laughing with Congressional colleagues about how he believes both Donald Trump (at the time of the recording, the GOP’s nominee for president), as well as a fellow California Congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, were both being paid by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
In May of 2017, McCarthy was egregiously lying and claiming the
GOP’s “Trumpcare” plan to replace the ACA wouldn’t cause anyone to lose their Medicaid coverage, in spite of the assessment from the CBO and every medical organization that predicted it would do precisely that.
In May of 2018, McCarthy also tried perpetuating the myth that social media platforms were “censoring” the opinions of conservatives, lashing out at Twitter for the fact that he couldn’t read a post from Fox News’ useful idiot Laura Ingraham. This, however, just let House Minority House Leader Nancy Pelosi come along to point out McCarthy was a tech-illiterate boob who didn’t know how to adjust his settings to see the post. And when an octogenarian is more tech savvy than you, you’re hopeless.
Lord only knows what McCarthy will do if he starts echoing the Trump White House’s attacks on Elizabeth Warren for proving her Native American heritage when McCarthy’s own in-laws are in legal trouble for signing up for government loans for Native Americans while claiming 1/8 Cherokee heritage (that they apparently don’t have). Meanwhile, as the 2018 election approached and anti-semitic and racist conspiracy theories were spread by several Republican candidates in a Trumpian effort, who else has followed up a mass shooting at a synagogue and a serial bomber’s attacks by continuing to demonize George Soros with the same ads? Kevin McCarthy.
Kevin McCarthy remains an awful public speaker, and cracks under almost zero pressure in interviews. Further proof would be his interview with CNN’s Dana Bash from August of 2018 when he froze up when asked about how frequently the Trump White House were caught in lies. We got quite an encore in September of 2019 as Kevin McCarthy’s defense of Trump’s actions in trying to force Ukraine to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden and withhold military aid from them when he did was that Scott Pelley “added a word” into the transcript that changed the context and proved Trump’s innocence. (Note: Pelley didn’t add a word, he read what the Trump White House released verbatim, and even with an extra word… it did not make the situation any better.)
After spending the better part a year slandering Robert Mueller and the FBI agents who are investigating the same links to Trump and Russia that Kevin McCarthy was caught on audio establishing as a real thing… William Barr came along to try and end the Mueller Investigation, and almost immediately, Trump started doing new crimes openly with Ukraine. McCarthy is stuck in a perpetual loop of being Trump’s b****, because he isn’t smart enough to realize this cycle of Trump being lawless and him having to defend the indefensible will never end.
It’s almost fitting that Kevin McCarthy had to be the one to tell Donald Trump to stop attacking vote-by-mail because Republican’s reliable voters are older, and at-risk, so if in-person voting is supposedly “unsafe” or “unreliable”… the GOP would have its voters afraid of catching Covid-19 and staying home on election day to avoid catching it at the polls. Trump didn’t listen, because of course that syphilitic miscreant didn’t, and the word outside of DC is that McCarthy has eyeballed the GOP’s chances just before the 2020 election and declared, “We’re screwed.”
He has gone back to Washington to vote against the interests of his constituents while trying to pave a path towards becoming House Speaker:
erything he could to sabotage a non-partisan investigation into January 6th, and lead House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to go ahead with having just a Special Committee investigation. He’s made threats to telecomm companies that they’ll be punished should they comply with the investigation by turning over phone records or in any way, potentially committing obstruction of justice in the process.
The question you might wonder is… why? Why with Donald Trump up a creek without a paddle, and after he literally taunted McCarthy during the attacks, why would McCarthy be stupid enough to try and give him a political lifeline and run interference rather than see him punished for a coup attempt that cost both attackers and law enforcement their lives?
Because, as we’ve established, he’s a craven sack of crap whose only thoughts when his head hits the pillow of night are of how he might get more power. And if he rallied the GOP to rout Trump out of power, they would have potentially paid the price in primaries against the sorts of psychotic white nationalists who love Trump until they are in their own graves. Rather than do what was best for the country, McCarthy decided his lot would be better by sucking back up to Trump in the hopes he'd win his 2022 primary, and maybe the normal swings towards the opposite party losing seats would mean he’d be set up to be the next Speaker of the House. So much so, that he started talking tough about getting the Speaker’s Gavel and beating Nancy Pelosi with it, which, given what happened to Paul Pelsoi, seems to have resonated with at least one specific psychotic who attempted a stochasic terrorist assassination of Pelosi as a result.
But oh Kevin… you’re such a moron.
The rest of your party weren’t going to ever rally behind you. They openly talked about voting Donald Trump to be the next Speaker of the House as part of some stupid scheme where they’d hypothetically impeach both Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris to install him back into the presidency ASAP. As deranged as that plan is… his inability to punish, and excise the lunatics from his caucus means he’s got enough positively deranged fanatics in the House Freedom Caucus/Sedition Caucus chomping at the bit to try it.
We wrote that above paragraph on this date last year, and hot damn, were truer words never spoken.
Kevin McCarthy was ready to take his victory lap after the 2022 elections, and see the day when he would be named the new Speaker of the House… only to be humiliated for several days and needed fifteen votes before he squeaked through and with the knowledge that he had authored his own destruction. You see, if you give a pack of baboons a hand grenade, sooner or later one will pull the pin. Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker with several concessions, including that it would take only one person to decide to put in a resolution to vacate the Speaker’s chair.
For ten months, McCarthy was one of the most ineffective House Speakers in modern history, failing to pass any kind of realistic legislation, letting the fringe elements of his caucus become the core, and all the while enabling their worst and most destructive political urges.
We’re telling you what a weak, pathetic man Kevin McCarthy is, and we’ll note that in the middle of his speakership, he tried talking tough to Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, whining that his counterpart across the aisle had made him look like a “pussy”, and if he did it again, he would “kick his ass”.
Swalwell immediately responded, “You. Are. A. Pussy.”
The reason we’re sharing this anecdote isn’t just that it’s hilarious. Or that Swalwell’s right. The point of it is, “Kevin McCarthy is enough of a moron to lay out ultimatums, and thinks there’s NO WAY anyone would call his bluff.
Never let this man near a casino.
With talk that head baboon, GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz was ready to pull the pin in the grenade he insisted on having back in January of 2023, McCarthy didn’t even get through his first year as Speaker without talk that a “motion to vacate” would be made by the alleged sex trafficker and conservative bomb-thrower. So Kevin’s dumb ass got on Twitter/X to again thump his chest and say, “BRING IT ON.”
To which, Gaetz replied, “Just did.”
And with eight Republicans and all Democrats (who owed him nothing and were tired of him threatening government shutdowns all the time) voting to remove McCarthy, he officially went down in history as one of the most failed Speakers of the House in history, which is saying something given how bad Newt Gingrich ruined his party’s chances, or that Denny Hastert was molesting boys. In the fallout of his removal, the House GOP Caucus had no idea what direction to go in, and spent a large part of October throwing names into a hat to randomly pick a new leader that caused the hat to begin vomiting those names back out of in disgust. While they eventually settled on Evangelical lunatic Mike Johnson, there was the cringey as hell moment when Kevin McCarthy tried to start a whisper campaign on his own behalf and casually mentioned he would be “willing to return” to Speaker if need be, which only made his party seek out anyone else even faster.
We would think that given all the public humiliation Kevin McCarthy has endured without resigning at this point that it must be his kink. He is the poster child for the Peter Principle, and failed all the way up to being second in line to the presidency before the universe corrected itself. It will bear watching if he can win re-election in 2024, or if he’s enough of a laughing stock to get bounced from office. Because it seems unlikely that he’s going to resign.
One Year Ago, November 1st, 2022: Kevin McCarthy (CA)… 2022 Update
Two Years Ago, November 1st, 2021: Kevin McCarthy (CA)… 2021 Update
Three Years Ago, November 1st, 2020: Kevin McCarthy (CA)… 2020 Update
Four Years Ago, November 1st, 2019: Kevin McCarthy (CA)… 2019 Update
Five Years Ago, November 1st, 2018: Kevin McCarthy (CA)… 2018 Update
Six Years Ago, November 1st, 2017: Kevin McCarthy (CA)… 2017 Update
Seven Years Ago, November 1st, 2016: Kevin McCarthy (CA)… 2016 Update
Eight Years Ago, November 1st, 2015: Kevin McCarthy (CA)… Original Profile
Nine Years Ago, November 1st, 2014: Stacey Campfield (TN)
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