Kevin McCarthy Just Can’t Seem To Help Himself

You know, sometimes you just can’t help being clumsy. Dear Lord do I know that! With my eyes, lucky to count my fingers at the far ends of my arms. Teri is one small step from putting my Bud Light into Tommie Tippee cups. But Kevin McCarthy can’t cop that claim. McCarthy has developed a nasty habit of not only consistently stepping on his crank, he stomps on it with golf cleats.

At least with McCarthy’s latest verbal faux pas, it can be explained. For some strange reason, going back at least as far as Romney in 2012, the GOP seems to be incapable of learning that lots of people don’t like them. Then they continue to think that a closed door fundraiser is somehow or other sacred ground, like a SCIF. They forget that reporters sneak in, there are moles, and servers and wait staff with agendas of their own don’t like them. And they all have cellphones with full voice and video capability.

And because the average GOP supporter and cash cow is like a cro–magnon without the social skills, GOP soakers at these things need to go full bore caveman to wow their audience. And then the audio appears on MSNBC or CNN.

McCarthy’s latest verbal fart occurred at a closed door fundraiser, at which, when he was handed an oversized wooden gavel, and asked about his prospects of becoming Speaker of the House, McCarthy cheerfully invited everybody to come to Washington and watch him bash current Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the head with it. Giving the mentality of bastard Freddie Krueger’s, his audience doubled over with mirth. Surprise, surprise. Nobody else did.

McCarthy’s mouthpiece put out a statement that obviously the Minority Leader was making a simple joke. Which has not quelled widespread outrage for McCarthy to apologize, and Democratic demands that he resign. McCarthy himself has been uncommonly silent about the incident. Considering the fact that El Pendejo Presidente almost certainly spit out a mouthful of bacon double cheeseburger, and choked on his fries when he heard the tape, McCarthy can’t apologize. And neither can any GOP incumbent who wants to avoid a primary next year.

But the optics are horrible. As we speak, there are 10 members of congress, including 2 GOP House members who are currently trying to come to grips with the origins of the January 6th insurrection. You know, the one where a mob of Trombie troglodytes stormed through the Capitol, searching high and low in order to dispatch a little street justice to Speaker Pelosi? How funny does that joke sound now?

Also, the GOP is already having severe problems with traditional GOP white suburban women voters. You think that they get the joke? And don’t think for a minute that any of them have forgotten the myriad of sexual assault allegations against Glorious Bleater. And that doesn’t even include independent women voters, and lower income voters, who are at greater risk of abuse from a domestic partner. You think that they’re Rolling On The Floor, Laughing Their Asses Off?

The GOP is in a downward spiral. And they already blew their chance. If the RNC of 2013 had followed then Chairman Reince Priebus; recommendation to follow the guidelines of the 2012 autopsy report, and separate themselves from the Evangelical wing nuts and racists, it would have cost them two election cycles to become competitive again nationally. There would have been no Trump! And the GOP would be in a much better position going into the 2022 midterms, and a driving force going into 2024, with a much younger, more tolerant, more inclusive party. I honestly don’t know what else to say.

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