Kevin McCarthy: Master of Strategery - The Bulwark

[Nevilledog]

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Kevin McCarthy: Master of Strategery - The Bulwark
Kevin McCarthy, apparently, thinks that if he can stop Liz Cheney from talking about former President Trump’s promotion of the election lies that led to the January 6 riot, then he’ll have an easier...
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9:21 AM · May 4, 2021

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Kevin McCarthy, apparently, thinks that if he can stop Liz Cheney from talking about former President Trump’s promotion of the election lies that led to the January 6 riot, then he’ll have an easier time winning the 2022 midterms and becoming speaker of the House.

He has determined that her inability to “carry out the message”—translation: whitewashing the insurrection and hyping up concerns about “election integrity”—is somehow the problem

Now, in fairness to McCarthy, those two things are actually problems for the GOP. And, booting Cheney might make Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene happy for five minutes. But those problems aren’t going away. They will haunt McCarthy forever.

What McCarthy is missing is that ousting Cheney is likely to make matters worse for Republicans.

If Cheney is ousted, McCarthy will be the feckless House Republican leader who acted as the toady enforcer of Trump’s dangerous election lies. Every Democrat can say, with a straight face, that in Kevin’s House, lying is a litmus test for leadership.

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[Walleye]

1. Kevin McCarthy soon to become Michael Cohen, the fixer

[tanyev]

2. The thing is, McCarthy isn't taking on some random congresswoman.

I think it's safe to conclude that Liz would not be speaking out this strongly if she didn't have her father's firm support. And while I don't have anything good to say about her father, he's still very well connected and I can believe that he hates Donald Trump as much, or more, than I do. I like to think that he's working whatever connections he still has to do damage to Trump and toadies.

[Volaris]

3. I think you're right.

Money from blood-oil buys a lot of shivs, and the LP guys would be happy to watch Anything Trump lay on the floor and bleed.