Kevin McCarthy has been compared to his namesake Joseph, and he’s been compared to a sheep and a lapdog. But this is the first reference to O.J. Simpson of which I am aware. the parallel is intriguing. Both are men who know the truth, if anybody does. Both are men who vociferously proclaimed their innocence, despite all appearances to the contrary. Both are vain, power mad men, whose public persona is all important. And most of all, both are men who stand to benefit from nobody finding out the truth, or at least finding out as little as possible. Washington Post:

“I will pursue as my primary goal in life the killer or killers who slaughtered Nicole and Mr. Goldman.”

— O.J. Simpson, vowing to find the real killers

“We will run our own investigation.”

— Kevin McCarthy, vowing to find the real insurrectionists

Last Thursday was another key day in House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s pitched battle against reality — and the English language.

On abortion: “We’ve watched babies survive at 13 weeks and others, that be as small as an M&M wrapper and be able to have life,” he told California’s KGET-TV.

An M&M wrapper? An Eminem rapper?

Maybe they do wrap M&Ms in the dimension where McCarthy lives.

But now McCarthy embodies the corruption of truth that has consumed the GOP. He led the effort to kill an independent, bipartisan Jan. 6 commission negotiated by his own point man. He then marshaled Republican votes against the bill creating the House select committee to scrutinize the attack. Next, he appointed two saboteurs to the committee (one with an obvious conflict), and when Speaker Nancy Pelosi objected, he called a Republican boycott of the panel.

Now he’s threatening telecom companies that cooperate with the committee’s request to preserve phone and social media records of people (including lawmakers) who may have been involved in the insurrection. A future “Republican majority will not forget,” he threatened, and would hold cooperating companies “fully accountable.”

What did McCarthy mean? Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), a rising power in the House GOP, explained on Fox News that if telecom companies “go along with this, they will be shut down — and that’s a promise.”

Nothing like having a minority leader who is threatening to do illegal things the minute his party gets back in the majority.

So that’s what “My Kevin” as Trump calls him is doing lately. That, and collecting pink and red Starbursts as a love offering for his idol, on his next pilgrimage.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Kevin & gov Abbott should get together & pool their resources. One is looking for a rapist, the other an insurrectionist. Head on down to Florida. The manboy u are looking for resides at his golf resort. Should be an easy 2for1. Good work fellas. Do I get 10grand?

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