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Kevin Loose Lips McCarthy is dumb?
Published by digby on June 3, 2022
Say it aint so
This Politico piece is funny. It is basically about what a dumb guy Kevin McCarthy is but its couching itself in a media crit piece. Its kind of a cheap trick:
Thats not a rhetorical question. Read between the lines of some of the coverage during McCarthys 15 years in Congress and you start to suspect that many folks who pay close attention to our likely next House Speaker dont think hes the sharpest tool in the shed.
The hints slip in, often as asides: McCarthy is a golden retriever of a man, not known for being a policy wonk, not known for his immersion in policy details, not known to have a mind for policy, a coastal extrovert of ambiguous ideological portfolio who would far rather talk about personalities than the tax code and not necessarily a policy wonk or political mastermind like his predecessors in House leadership. His elevation would mean that even though the fractured House Republican caucus may benefit from McCarthys networking abilities, others may have to step up to help filter out the details of policy quagmires to come. No wonder many believe he lacks the political and tactical gravitas to be a force and there are those who privately question his policy chops and intellectual abilities.
Its not hard to conclude that the authors of these lines may be trying to tell us something.
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Lovie777
(12,278 posts)a kennedy
(29,672 posts)rurallib
(62,423 posts)leftieNanner
(15,121 posts)I'll see if I can find the clip of Rachel Maddow's show from a few years ago where she talked about a press conference he gave. His words are not words and his sentences are not sentences. He is dumb as a rock and way less useful.
Talking about an overseas trip, he said he went to "Hungria".
rurallib
(62,423 posts)Bullshit, IMHO
leftieNanner
(15,121 posts)If the Republicans take over the House (shudder......), no way he will be voted Speaker. Wouldn't be surprised if they chose one of the lunatic flame throwers instead.
At least they wouldn't be able to get anything done!
Karadeniz
(22,535 posts)him some throwaway question like how's it looking for GOP chances? He grinned ecstatically and said something like, Things are going great! We just finished putting more pressure on Hillary Clinton! (This was after yet another in the ongoing televised Libya interrogations.)
I thought, Yippee!!! We've got a Republican in charge who's dumber than dirt! He doesn't know when he's spilling the GOP politicizing beans! This is a gift!!
I guess he gets regular talkings to since then.. unfortunately!!!