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mcar

(42,210 posts)
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 06:54 PM Feb 2021

Republicans Have a Major Problem. Soon It Could Be Everyone's Problem.

Republicans Have a Major Problem. Soon It Could Be Everyone’s Problem.
Kevin McCarthy is fumbling this Liz Cheney-Marjorie Taylor Greene situation.

By Charles P. Pierce
Feb 3, 2021

...Anyway, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, who apparently can be held up by mail, has been jacked into pairing up disciplinary actions against both Marjorie Taylor Greene and Liz Cheney, the former for being an out-of-control QAnon nutball, and the latter for having supported the impeachment of the previous president* on a charge of incitement of insurrection. That the Republican leader felt compelled to equate these two offenses should tell you all you need to know about the current state of the Republican Party and the current state of McCarthy's leadership position....

Plainly, McCarthy has passed the peak of his efficiency as a zookeeper. The Democrats in the House have noticed this and they've fitted McCarthy for a meat suit to wear into the lion enclosure....

Naturally, the specter of El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago looms behind all this activity. He's lined up firmly behind MTG, at least according to her, and McCarthy heretofore has shown no stomach for a fight with Matt Gaetz, let alone a tussle with the former president*. There is no Republican civil war or, if there is, at present, it's the biggest mismatch since the Duchy of Grand Fenwick invaded New York. In terms of actual influence, there are Republicans who are on the MTG/Trump side and there are neutrals, most of whom are hiding behind the drapes. People actively working against the MTG/Trump side are either of extremely limited influence, or Mitt Romney, but I repeat myself. McCarthy also has to face down a tit-for-tat proposal from elsewhere in the mad dog contingent....

Any serious legislative leader would back up Cheney and crack down on MTG. For all the problems I have with Cheney and her old man (she is authentically dangerous in a way MTG can only dream of being), she is not a member of the same political phylum as MTG. The gravitas deficit is profound. But McCarthy is unable (or unwilling) to use that to his own advantage. Nobody is under control in that party and that's going to lead to a kind of general dysfunction that will guarantee that there will be more MTG's elected, which will lead to less control, which will lead to a kind of future in which the Kevin McCarthys will find themselves lost in a sea of empowered insanity. And that will be everybody's problem.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a35409242/kevin-mccarthy-liz-cheney-marjorie-taylor-greene-discipline/

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Republicans Have a Major Problem. Soon It Could Be Everyone's Problem. (Original Post) mcar Feb 2021 OP
I didn't read the byline but when I got to "fitted for a meat suit mahina Feb 2021 #1
My favorite line mcar Feb 2021 #2
Ps mahina Feb 2021 #3
I would not want to play a trivia game with this man mcar Feb 2021 #4
Biden I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2021 #5

mahina

(17,506 posts)
1. I didn't read the byline but when I got to "fitted for a meat suit
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 07:08 PM
Feb 2021

“ I knew I was reading Charlie Pierce. So good. Thanks.

mahina

(17,506 posts)
3. Ps
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 07:15 PM
Feb 2021

Wiki world says
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick is a tiny fictional country created by Leonard Wibberley in a series of comedic novels beginning with The Mouse That Roared (1955), which was later made into a film.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,452 posts)
5. Biden
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 10:09 PM
Feb 2021

These fuckers are not worth your time. Roll out your progressive agenda. Roll over the republicans and forget about bipartisanship,ain't going to happen. These fuckers have made it clear they don't give a fuck about helping the people 9f this nation . All they will do is undermine,stall and destroy. Cut them out of the legislative process they are unfit to run thier offices.

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