Kevin McCarthy should resign

Kevin McCarthy should not seek reelection, and definitely should not become Speaker of the House. But not for the reasons CNN, NPR, The New York Times, or Rachel Maddow say.

What did Kevin McCarthy do this time?

Republicans have comfortably assumed that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has the interests of the country, and their Party, at heart. If his conversations with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) are any indicator, that is not true.

On January 10, 2021, Kevin McCarthy clearly said to Liz Cheney that, if he had anything to say to then-President Donald J. Trump, it would be to urge him to resign. Articles of impeachment, he said, were sure to pass after the January 6 event. (What he did not say was that the Senate would never muster the two-thirds to convict Trump on the charges. But we digress.)

Not only did Kevin McCarthy say that, but he also called for several prominent Republicans to lose their Twitter and Facebook accounts, as Trump had.

At the time, McCarthy denied having said any of the above:

But two days ago The New York Times broke the story. Specifically they carried a story by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, who were promoting their book, This Will Not Pass. In it they shared all the above details.

Kevin McCarthy, on his Republican Leader’s Twitter account, flatly denied the story.

But then the audio came out. Rachel Maddow shared it on her television program on MSNBC. Naturally the Times carried that story also. So did NPR and one of its affiliates. CNN, USA Today, and Politico all have weighed in. So has Gateway Pundit – twice. Meanwhile, Kevin McCarthy has maintained near-absolute silence.

Reaction from other Members

But other Members of Congress have not kept silent. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) reported on the denial, then the verification, of McCarthy’s words. “Republicans,” he said, “your leaders think you are dumb.”

Former Rep. Laura Loomer (R-Fla.) said this was “the only time I will ever agree with Adam Kinzinger.” She called for Kevin McCarthy to resign, and announced her opposition to McCarthy and Cheney. (She also added Kinzinger, but of course Kinzinger is not seeking reelection. And that’s because the Democratic legislature drew his district away when the State lost a district in the Census.)

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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) had this furious response, also on Twitter:

What frosted Gaetz more than anything else, is that while Gaetz was defending Trump and other Republicans for censorship, Kevin McCarthy called for such censorship. That’s worse than what he said he would tell Trump.

Did he say anything like that to President Trump? We don’t know whether he did or he didn’t.

Why Kevin McCarthy cannot be Floor Leader anymore and should not be Speaker

CNN’s opinion contains their usual snidery. To them, Trump is the only politician who can succeed without building a reputation for credibility. Having said that, we must observe what else CNN asked: what else is Kevin McCarthy lying about?

Jack Shafer at Politico seems to think McCarthy will skate on this. He seems to think all McCarthy need do is “grovel” to Trump, and he also thinks he’s already done that. The problem: Shafer cited only Kevin McCarthy’s denial. He has not treated the situation after Rachel Maddow and others aired the playback.

Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit gives a blunt assessment:

He’s finished!

Well, he certainly ought to be finished. Kevin McCarthy proved that he is a RINO – a Republican In Name Only. Representatives Loomer and Gaetz have called it. A Floor Leader does not call for the usurpers of the public square to banish other Members, from his own Party, from it. Nor does he call on a President to resign over a false-flag pseudo-event, which January 6 was. Kevin McCarthy did both.

Other influencers have observed as well, that the liberal media, thinking to embarrass Republicans, have only embarrassed one person who now will face removal from leadership, and justly so.

Videos

The following videos contain McCarthy’s words, and appropriate commentary on them: