Last night, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy set a record. He went to the House of Representatives at 8:38 on Thursday evening to protest the incredibly reckless and profligate “rebuild better” stupidity, which ended at 5:11 this morning. He held 8 hours and 33 minutes in the House of Representatives, surpassing Nancy Pelosi’s record-setting speech at 8:07, in which she peddled an amnesty plan for illegal persons.
After McCarthy was exhausted, the Democrats passed the bill.
This minority leader’s criticism is undoubtedly correct.
The statement comes from @GOPLeader, @Steve Scalis, with @RepStefanik The House of Representatives passed on Biden’s aggressive taxation and profligacy frenzy. pic.twitter.com/Ji7LPRGguE
-House Republican (@HouseGOP) November 19, 2021
The Biden Act will surely bankrupt the country, and it will begin to federalize childcare and mock immigration laws. But, on the other hand, the IRS will get more funding because its mission is to find money to pay for it all.
Although I have the deepest respect for my colleague Jennifer O’Connell (see Kevin McCarthy left everything on the court or on the floor-fighting Biden’s “rebuild better”), my point is that all of this is an appropriate metaphor for McCarthy’s term as a minority leader: style is more important than substance and inefficiency.
I am the last person to claim that it is easy to be a minority leader in the House of Representatives. It is not. Since Joe Biden was elected president, what we have seen from McCarthy has not been to boycott the leadership of the government and the House of Representatives to make the U.S. Constitution irrelevant. We can return to his doting of Liz Cheney’s actions during the false “impeachment” of President Trump.Under McCarthy’s leadership, Biden’s infrastructure bill passed The power of Republican cross-voting.
Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill was passed on Friday night, and after months of heated debate on the details, he is about to sign it-especially whether it will be tied to a larger spending plan that progressives insist on passing . But in the end, it was not the progressives who provided the key votes, but 13 Republicans (the full list is at the bottom of this article). The final number of votes was 228 to 206, which means that if no Republicans voted for the bill, the bill would not pass.
This is not the behavior of a troubled minority leader.
McCarthy also failed to protect his members from retaliation by the Democratic Party. Two days ago, Paul Gosar was deprived of his committee assignment because AOC stuffed her panties on a stupid and almost incomprehensible animated cartoon. Marjorie Taylor Greene suffered the same treatment because her views were inconsistent with the “right thinking” members of the media and the Democratic majority. This is not to say that McCarthy could have prevented the Democratic Party from collecting scalp, but he did not bother trying to squeeze any price. His weakness and selfless response were not what the “war adviser” needed.
The effect of yelling at the bulldozer demolishing your house is about the same as the effect of Republican institutions in the past 40 years. https://t.co/CUbJxXMF33
-Sir Aaron (irSirAaron_) November 19, 2021
Let us talk frankly about what happened here. Like most sane people, Kevin McCarthy predicts that the Republican Party will control the House of Representatives in January 2023. So he wants to be the speaker. As the leader of the minority party, he did not do anything “worthy of the Speaker”, but he also realized that he did not offend most of his core group members. Therefore, all he has to do to grab the gavel is to be active.
Kevin McCarthy is part of the problem, not part of the solution. If he becomes the speaker, he will not take any measures to make the Democrat mobs yield.He will not take any measures to retaliate against their actions against Taylor Greene and Gosar to ensure that such nonsense does not happen again; see Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, 2022 and the road to ChicagoHe is an easy-going type and will sell his core group within a minute to please the Democratic Party.
McCarthy may eventually become Speaker of the House, and there may be legitimate reasons for him to be such a person, but do not believe the nonsense spread by the House Republican Party, Kevin McCarthy cares enough about everything except his career.
