Kevin McCarthy Is NOT A Good Man

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is a real piece of work, as they say.  If the ‘man’ has a compassionate bone in his body, I have yet to find it.  He whines incessantly and his values, such as they are, are so skewed that it’s impossible to determine what they are, for they may vary from one day to the next.  He had one single moment of dignity on the 6th of January, 2021, when he said …

“Let me be clear to you, and I have been very clear to the president. He bears responsibility for his words and actions. No if, ands or buts. I asked him personally today if he holds responsibility for what happened, if he feels bad about what happened. He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened. But he needs to acknowledge that.”

Just a few weeks later, McCarthy visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago and pandered to him in order to get back in his good graces and likely apologized for his earlier comment — a comment which he now tries to deny having said, though it was recorded and has been verified more than a few times.

So, we know he is not an honest man, not a principled man, and cares more for his own political future than for our lives.  But of late he is outdoing himself in the ‘whine-and-blame’ department.

Yesterday, he tweeted multiple times about gas prices having hit $5.  I finally responded to him asking him if he had a point to make, and also whether he had checked fuel prices in other countries, for it is the same around the globe.  The rise in fuel prices is caused by a combination of the war in Ukraine, an excess of demand over supply as people begin traveling more in these ‘post-Covid’1 summer months, and the blatant greed of the oil companies who are seeing remarkably high profits of late (profits on which they pay relatively little taxes).  Canada, Australia, the UK … all report high fuel prices just as ours are.  But ol’ McCarthy wants to point the finger at President Biden and tell the maga crowd that it’s all Biden’s fault.

The thing that got me the most about McCarthy in the past week or two, though, is illustrated by this tweet he made yesterday …

“For the 3rd time in a week, I’m calling for a vote for stronger security for Supreme Court Justices—ALL of them. This isn’t partisan. The threat is real. Why is Speaker Pelosi blocking something that the Senate has already passed unanimously?”

This is a result of the arrest of a man last Wednesday who, while he didn’t actually attempt it, considered murdering Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  He thought better of it and called the police, acknowledging that he was having suicidal thoughts and wanted to kill Kavanaugh because of the pending Roe v Wade decision.  Okay, one man with a mental health issue who didn’t even follow through with his threat, and ol’ McCarthy has tried to pass bills three times within a week to protect the nine Supreme Court Justices.  Don’t get me wrong here … I do not deny that we need to put in place some additional security for the justices if they’re going to keep making anti-humanitarian decisions, and I do NOT wish to see any of them murdered.  However …

On May 24th, a teenager with an assault rifle brutally massacred 19 school children – 4th graders – and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.  In addition to that horrific event, there were a number of other mass shootings including one ten days before Uvalde, where 10 people were killed by yet another teenager with a military-style assault rifle at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.  The rise in mass shootings is the stuff nightmares are made of, and so once again the members of Congress who are people of conscience proposed new gun legislation.  The proposal passed the House (but with much watering down when it finally passed in the Senate, to the point that it is not much of a help at all).  But to my point … guess who voted AGAINST that bill in the House?  You guessed it – good ol’ Kevin McCarthy.

So, let’s get this straight … he is driven to devote all his time, day and night, to getting a bill to protect the nine members of the Supreme Court passed and is downright nasty when he doesn’t get his way, but he cannot be bothered to vote for gun laws, milquetoast though they are, when thousands of people are dying from senseless gun violence, hundreds of them children, every damn year?  Hmmmm … the only conclusion I can draw here is that Kevin McCarthy does not care about the people of this nation, nor does he care about our children.  I think that Kevin McCarthy is NOT a nice man, not a man with a conscience or the capability for humanity, for empathy.  I hope the good people of California think long and hard about his skewed priorities and vote to replace him in the U.S. House of Representatives in the November election.

1 Although mask mandates, vaccine mandates, social distancing requirements and other Covid restrictions have largely been lifted, we are NOT “post-Covid” by any stretch, with the nation still seeing hundreds of deaths daily, but some large portion of people have convinced themselves that Covid is gone and it’s time to PAR-TAY!

25 thoughts on “Kevin McCarthy Is NOT A Good Man”

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  3. When the party of gullible lemmings is led by a person of character and morals and intelligent reflection, they vote for and support character and morals and intelligent reflection. When the party of gullible lemmings are led by an ignorant, self-serving con-man………

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  4. Kevin McCarthy, along with numerous others of his ilk, care about one particular thing FAR more than the lives of children or others SLAUGHTERED by gun-wielding individuals. Can you guess what it is?

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    • Ummmm … 🤔 … let me think … hmmmmm … ummmm … could it be … nah, not world peace … 🤔 … mmmmmm … no, not equality for all … 🤔 … hmmmm … I’VE GOT IT 💡💡💡 MONEY! Do I get a prize?

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  5. Jill, when I have called and spoken to staff of Mr. McCarthy, my plea has been straightforward. We need him to be the leader his role commands and we deserve. We need a viable conservative party in this country, but vilifying the truth tellers and aggrandizing the liars is not the path forward. As Michael Gerson, a conservative pundit says, the “Republican party is in decay.” Unfortunately, Mr. McCarthy has not heeded my plea and is one of the reasons Mr. Gerson says this. Keith

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    • Indeed, as the party leader in the House, he is supposed to set an example for others to follow, but his example is NOT the one we want others to follow. Does the man even have a conscience, I wonder? Yes, he is one of many reasons Gerson appropriately says that.

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  6. I think McCarthy is a typical Republican, going where the wind blows him. He has no character, no commitment to anything but his own needs and wants. He is the embodinent of Republicanism in its present form: Make the other side look bad, no matter how good they are or are not.

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  7. Thank you for sharing!.. Kevin McCarthy is a politician who is trying to keep his job (other Republicans are doing the same thing).. he tried to appease a element of today’s society by making a statement about Trump’s responsibilities and then appeases Trump so as not to lose votes…. as for gun control, protecting the justices is not a issue, trying to convince Americans they do not need guns is another story and sure to lose votes… 🙂

    Until we meet again..
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    Everything go right, nothing go wrong
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    May all the wishes you wish come true
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    May you find whatever you’re seeking
    Wherever you may roam
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    • Yes, of course they are all more concerned with their own re-elections and their personal fortunes than they are with our lives, but isn’t it a shame that it’s that way? And McCarthy, like McConnell in the Senate, should be held to a higher standard, given their leadership positions. They are supposed to be setting an example of integrity, not one of “let’s see how many people we can screw over today”. Sigh. Thanks, Dutch, for the lovely Irish Saying!

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  10. Many good points, but I spotted one mistake; Kevin McCarthy is a congressman from California. He represents the 23rd district which covers the southern San Joaquin Valley, it includes most of Kern County and parts of Tulare and Los Angeles Counties. It’s also home to a lot of oil production, and no doubt Chevron contributes to McCarthy generously.

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