What does Kevin McCarthy want to accomplish?

[OAITW r.2.0]

If we understand this, we might be able to help....or not.

[Ocelot II]

1. He wanted to be Speaker of the House.

I'm not sure he ever had any goal other than that.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

9. That's my estimation as well, and not in a snarky way either.

McCarthy seems rather vacuous, immature, and fixed on the speakership in a way that makes policy malleable. Someone who will do anything, suffer and humility, to get that gavel.

Now what?

[Lettuce Be]

17. This and only this. That was his goal and he reached it.

How long does he remain speaker is the question.

[fightforfreedom]

19. You got it. that's all he wanted.

His head is mostly hollow, not a lot of ideas in that head.

[Bleacher Creature]

2. He wants to be and remain Speaker

I don't think he really believes in much. It's purely personal ambition.

[dflprincess]

3. He's already accomplished what he wanted

He got the title and the big office and someday his portrait will hang in the Capitol.

[msongs]

4. he wants to be president. what will he have do to be that nt

[Kennah]

5. Not get shanked, figuratively or literally

[Kennah]

6. Last longer than a Boenher

[GP6971]

7. No legislative accomplishments for sure.

He's the speaker...the pinnacle of his career as far as he is concerned. Nothing else matters.

[MerryBlooms]

8. 3 Scaramuci.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

10. Reminds me of Paul Williams

Who came out on a televised award show in the 70’s to conduct the orchestra. He carried a stack of phone books out, put them down, climbed up, took out his conductor’s wand, then he turned to the audience and said “power!”.

Williams was joking. ReekCarthy is standing on his stack phone books, thinking he really does have power.

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. Chaos

Tearing down anything good and decent. Owning the libs.

[Takket]

12. "owning the libs"

they have no interest in governing. only upsetting Democrats

[TheBlackAdder]

13. Leverage the line of succession to the Presidency if shit goes south.

[Thomas Hurt]

14. He wanted the gavel. I am not sure he wants his balls back either, now that the fascists have them.

[jmowreader]

15. Whatever he wanted to accomplish...

Besides becoming Speaker of the House, that is…

IIRC one of the things he agreed to is to reduce the number of people it takes to overthrow the Speaker. You have a faction in that…well, it used to be a caucus but now I think it’s just a mob…who want to do nothing but impeach the whole Biden administration, drag Hunter Biden through the mud, and get rid of everything they don’t like.

“I don’t like Mondays.”
“We’ll get rid of them! We’ll have seven Sundays so everyone has to go to church every day!”

If Kevin points out that maybe they should pause impeaching Biden for a week so they can write a defense budget or something like that, they’ll overthrow him quick. So…the Speaker will be walking on felt soled shoes hoping to keep his ass in office long enough to get to the next election. In essence, he will be a Speaker In Name Only. Sad.

[lark]

16. He's 100% a member of the fascist Putinistas.

He will do everything to destroy us, and help Putin. It's the only way he will retain his gavel, bend over deeply for the traitors.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

18. chaos, nothing more

he is in bed with idiots !


House republicans don''t love america or even the people they represent. They love power and chaos