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Seven years ago, when House Speaker John Boehner resigned after years of frustration over trying to corral the far-right part of his caucus, Kevin McCarthy was favored to succeed him. That is, until one night on Sean Hannity’s show, McCarthy said the quiet part out loud in discussing why House Republicans had poured so much time and energy into investigating the Benghazi attack: “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.” McCarthy’s fellow Republicans decried the comments and called on him to apologize. He tried to backtrack; it didn’t work. Ultimately, he had to give up on his bid for the speakership.
Ironically, the brainwormed partisan mindset that cost McCarthy the gavel in 2015 is probably why he’ll get it in 2023.
He faces a challenge similar to Boehner’s: He needs to contain the members of the MAGA caucus, or at least distract them with some shiny object. His solution harks back to his 2015 Kinsley gaffe about the Benghazi investigation. McCarthy recently unveiled a “Commitment to America”—a knockoff of Newt Gingrich’s 1994 “Contract with America”—that promises, as one of its four planks, to hold “government accountable.” By that, McCarthy means investigations. And the Biden family is at the top of the list.
www.thebulwark.com
The Following is salivating like a hungry dog over the prospect of what it sees as payback for the numerous efforts to bring Individual 1 to justice. Efforts that may yet come to fruition. But even after having been protected by Senate Repubs in two impeachment trials the desire for retribution, at the expense of justice, is palpable.
Ironically, the brainwormed partisan mindset that cost McCarthy the gavel in 2015 is probably why he’ll get it in 2023.
He faces a challenge similar to Boehner’s: He needs to contain the members of the MAGA caucus, or at least distract them with some shiny object. His solution harks back to his 2015 Kinsley gaffe about the Benghazi investigation. McCarthy recently unveiled a “Commitment to America”—a knockoff of Newt Gingrich’s 1994 “Contract with America”—that promises, as one of its four planks, to hold “government accountable.” By that, McCarthy means investigations. And the Biden family is at the top of the list.
Kevin McCarthy’s Plan to Benghazi the Bidens
Get ready for the Hunter Biden hearings.
www.thebulwark.com
The Following is salivating like a hungry dog over the prospect of what it sees as payback for the numerous efforts to bring Individual 1 to justice. Efforts that may yet come to fruition. But even after having been protected by Senate Repubs in two impeachment trials the desire for retribution, at the expense of justice, is palpable.
