GOP leader Kevin McCarthy is opposed to the commission. So are 176 of his fellow Republican representatives. But nearly 20% of the GOP caucus joined all 219 Democrats in supporting the commission. The bill now moves to the Senate where, […]
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Kevin McCarthy: “I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election”
The GOP House minority leader can’t be serious. Here is Paul Kane at The Washington Post: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Wednesday took a head-spinning tour through Washington. First, he oversaw the roughly 20-minute meeting of House Republicans […]
Kevin McCarthy is “proud to be a Christian.” He’ll now need to find a way to reconcile his faith with his willingness to lead a party united around a lie
The vote to remove Liz Cheney from her leadership position has not taken place yet and the House’s top two Republicans–Andrew McCarthy and Stave Scalise–have already thrown their support behind New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik to replace her. Here is […]
Cheney: “The GOP is at a turning point”
Here is Liz Cheney’s op-ed from las night’s Washington Post: In public statements again this week, former president Donald Trump has repeated his claims that the 2020 election was a fraud and was stolen. His message: I am still the rightful president, […]
Change over time: A historical look at Liz Cheney’s years in the House of Representatives
It looks like Liz Cheney will lose her leadership position in the GOP caucus because she does not believe Joe Biden stole the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump. The pro-Trump sharks are swarming. The GOP House leadership will not […]
Is “owning the libs” the GOP’s new civil religion?
If you want to become a star in the Republican Party these days, and make a lot of money serving red meat to the GOP base, you need to show that you can use your platform to “own the libs.” […]
Why did Kevin McCarthy read *Green Eggs and Ham*?
Watch the House minority leader: McCarthy could be more original. Ted Cruz has already read Green Eggs and Hand in public. Here he is back in the days when he did not look like a contestant on Survivor: I am […]
What you can expect at CPAC this weekend
Yes, Trump will be at the big MAGA event this weekend. If you’re going, you can choose to attend one of these sessions: Ted Cruz’s talk is titled “Bill of Rights, Liberty, and Cancel Culture.” Deroy Murdock of Fox News […]
Blight: “Congressman McCarthy, cherish your portrait of Douglass, but leave his history alone”
Kevin McCarthy made a Black History Month video. It featured African American leader Frederick Douglass. Watch: Yale historian David Blight, the author of the definitive biography of Douglass, Prophet of Freedom, commented on McCarthy’s videos at the Los Angeles Times. […]
What happened when GOP congresswoman Jamie Herrera Beutler wished her constituents a “Happy Valentine’s Day”?
Yesterday we did a post on Jamie Herrera Beutler, the Washington congresswoman who was prepared to testify that House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told her that Trump supported the insurrection of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Herrera did […]
As the insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy asked Trump to call off the rioters. Trump responded…
CNN is reporting: In an expletive-laced phone call with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy while the Capitol was under attack, then-President Donald Trump said the rioters cared more about the election results than McCarthy did.” Well, Kevin, I guess these […]
The GOP will not discipline Marjorie Taylor Greene
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy condemned Greene’s past comments, but will not remove her from her committee assignments, including her position on the education committee. Just a reminder: Greene believed the Pizzagate conspiracy theory (which linked Hillary Clinton to a pedophilia ring […]
Is Marjorie Taylor Greene an anomaly in the GOP?
Greene represents Georgia’s 14th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. This district is located in northwest Georgia and includes the towns of Rome (population 36,303) and Dalton (population 33,128). The district is 85% white. Greene is or […]
What is going on in the Republican Party?
A QAnon supporter who believes the Parkland school shooting was staged has been appointed to the House education committee. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy flew down to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Donald Trump to talk about how the former president […]
Three cheers for Brian Williams!
Williams with the scoop:
You don’t congratulate someone who just robbed a bank (and other court evangelical news)
Yesterday Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell finally acknowledged that Joe Biden was the “President-elect of the United States of America. He also warned GOP senators to stop contesting the election. Meanwhile, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has not said a […]
Conservative Evangelicals Defend Steve King and Want Kevin McCarthy to Apologize
Perhaps some of you missed it. Iowa congressman Steve King, in an interview with the New York Times, said this: “White nationalists, white supremacist, Western Civilization–how did that language become offensive?” King later tried to back away from the statement, but it […]