By Jack Gleason ——Bio and Archives--October 7, 2023
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How quickly we forget.
To hear the screaming scalded cats on Fox, Kevin McCarthy is the tragic victim of a vindictive Matt Gaetz, who dislikes him so much he would end McCarthy’s speakership just to settle a personal score.
Kevin McCarthy is a snake, a smooth talker, and definitely not a conservative. He’s the ultimate swamp creature, he pretends to want “what’s best for the country,” but really wants what’s best for himself.
If McCarthy was a saint, why was there such a problem getting him the speakership in January? Did all 20 of the conservative holdouts have a personal problem with him?
In December of last year, I advocated new leadership for the Republican Party and to replace McCarthy, McDaniel, and McConnell…
First, they violated the sacred rule that the party members choose the candidates in the primaries, not the leadership elites. Primaries are where new and exciting candidates are discovered and developed. Kevin McCarthy interfered in the primaries on a massive scale. On September 27, the Washington Post detailed his efforts to "systematically weed out GOP candidates who could either cause McCarthy trouble if he becomes House speaker or jeopardize GOP victories in districts where a more moderate candidate might have a better chance at winning."
Second, they accepted donations from outside the party. McCarthy used his Congressional Leadership Fund--a super-PAC with over $165 million--to help "moderate" primary candidates and incumbents succeed over challengers from the "far-right" and "election-deniers."
Third, you don't oppose your own members of Congress. In North Carolina, McCarthy tried to unseat Madison Cawthorn, a conservative firebrand endorsed by Trump.
The fourth rule is "don't bring shame to the GOP." It is just coming out that McCarthy has a disturbing connection with FTX, the cryptocurrency giant that recently filed for bankruptcy of $3.7 billion. In the Cawthorn race, millions were spent to defeat him… National File reported McCarthy used left-wing oligarch money to fund a "secretive," anti-MAGA campaign within the GOP to protect his establishment speaker ambitions."
After McCarthy finally won the Speakership, in my article on January 13, I said “It's clear that he's no friend of conservatives. His "Liberty Score" is an F. He and his dark money allies systematically undermined MAGA candidates in the 2022 GOP primaries and even in the general election. Rank and file GOP members didn't want him, and only 36% of likely voters think the country is on the wrong track. We learned a lot about Kevin McCarthy over the last few days, especially his willingness to pull out all the stops to intimidate any who opposed him by threatening to strip them from important committees. Other McCarthy supporters threatened incoming GOP congressmen. McCarthy has spent his career putting special interests ahead of those of the American people in favor of lobbyists, government bureaucrats, the military industrial complex, and has done nothing to control our borders, oppose the drug cartels or oppose Chinese expansion.”
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I cited this video with conservative attorney Mike Davis at the 3:31 mark where Davis brands McCarthy as a chameleon, not a conservative.
But now McCarthy is rebranded as a wounded hero, betrayed by a few vindictive conservative MAGA radicals.
How easily we are fooled by smooth talking and symbolic gestures.
In his lofty speech as new Speaker, McCarthy promised…
Sounds great. Which items on the list were accomplished? Which did McCarthy fight for?
How quickly we forget that McCarthy promised to hold a vote on term limits, promised to release the full January 6 tapes, and promised to rein in rampant Democrat spending.
It’s now clear that McCarthy was pretending to investigate the wrongdoings of the Biden administration while underfunding the select committees and slow-walking their investigations. For example, Democrat committees investigating Trump had 40 investigators while the GOP committee investigating Biden had five.
On January 4th, while the battle for Speaker was commencing, 60 true conservatives wrote a letter opposing McCarthy.
The Omnibus Bill that handed Joe Biden and his administrative state a blank check without spending limits was just the final straw.
Now that your memory has been refreshed, how do you see Kevin McCarthy now? As a victim of a personal vendetta, or a sleaze ball whose lies finally caught up with him?
My sincere prayer is that whoever replaces him will have the guts to listen to the American people and stand up to the Swamp.
I’m not holding my breath.
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