Dump the Failed and Ineffective Kevin McCarthy
If the GOP is serious about building a winning party and a winning agenda, Kevin McCarthy needs to follow Liz Cheney to the backbenches.
By Jeremy Carl
May 25, 2021
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has never been conservative activists’ dream for a House GOP leader. The blow-dried apotheosis of the mediocre businessman class that has led the GOP to the brink of irrelevance through decades of failed leadership, McCarthy is an easy person for movement conservatives to despise.
McCarthy’s Twitter handle @GOPLEADER, represents what he aspires to be—but in reality, it is we who must say “Go! Pleader” to this political hack who pleads ineffectively with his caucus to stand against the Democrats’ agenda, pleads to disenfranchise members of his caucus in order to appease Democratic whims, and pleads with the news media to change the subject to something other than his rank incompetence.
Most recently we saw this in his decision on Tuesday to elevate through a tweeted press release a dumb but ultimately unimportant offhand Holocaust analogy used by Israel-supporting Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), distracting from the numerous incidents of violence against Jews being committed and excused almost exclusively by left-wing anti-Zionists and antisemites today. Pleader McCarthy always lets the Democrats set the terms of the debate.
Much of the conservative unease that originally accompanied McCarthy’s rise was grounded in a fear that he would simply be a continuation of his corrupt, back-slapping predecessor John Boehner (R-Ohio), who continually warred with conservatives in the caucus and was famously caught distributing checks from tobacco lobbyists on the House floor. Little wonder that conservatives torpedoed McCarthy’s 2015 speakership bid by leaking info about his widely-rumored affair with a congressional colleague, a rumor that seems to have quieted for now, but will certainly reemerge if, as is fairly likely, the GOP seizes control of the House in 2022, putting McCarthy in line to be speaker.
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