Establishment GOP Snatches Defeat from Jaws of Victory Yet AgainIt’s time to elect more Republicans in primaries who will vote against Mitch McConnell’s and Kevin McCarthy’s leadership. American Greatness, Nov , 2021, Ned Ryun
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Of those 13 Republicans, two are retiring (the impeachment Twinkies of Illinois’ Adam Kinzinger and Ohio’s Anthony Gonzalez), two are from blue districts (New York’s John Katko and New Jersey’s Jeff Van Drew). But the other nine? From Republican districts like NY-11, an R plus 7 district, represented by the apparently very dull Nicole Malliotakis, who was crowing on Twitter that New York would reap more than $100 billion of that infrastructure cash. Apparently, adjusting for inflation, that’s the new 30 pieces of silver. Or take David McKinley of West Virginia’s first Congressional District, which the Cook Report gives a political voting index of R plus 22. Every last one of those nine from R plus districts needs a primary opponent in 2022.
What makes matters worse is that some of those Republicans aren’t backbenchers. They’re in the actual leadership, like the aforementioned and incredibly dull Malliotakis. She’s the Assistant Minority Whip for the Republican Conference, as in one of Kevin McCarthy’s pet minions who voted to strip Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) of her committee assignments. Which leads me to this (and I feel like I’m stating the obvious): the Republican Caucus in the House lacks leadership.
After proclaiming that he was whipping against the bill and predicting that no Republicans would vote for it, 13 Republicans blew McCarthy off, including members of his own leadership team. He is incredibly weak as a leader—illiterate, politically speaking—and a corporatist type masquerading as American First. In other words, he is as someone who knows what he’s talking about described to me as “Paul Ryan on steroids.”
I mean, for God’s sake, McCarthy just got outwitted by a woman who can barely utter coherent sentences half the time. All he had to do was get his caucus to toe the line and vote no on a bill that is so obviously bad, has almost nothing to do with infrastructure, and accelerates us into the coercive socialism of the Green New Deal—and he couldn’t even do that. In a week when Republicans were flying high, McCarthy utterly failed and gave Grandpa Dementia a significant victory. When the Biden Administration was absolutely on the ropes, staggered by losses, staring into the abyss of complete and utter failure, Frank Luntz’s roomie let his caucus help it off the mat because he is an incompetent spineless “leader.”
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