More tapes coming out. Long story short, he (McCarthy) mentions concern he and others have for the tripe and dangerous rhetoric coming out of his own caucus, and a few of them are named… some of the usual suspects. The cartoonish far-right members. McCarthy also urges them to stop posting things that incite violence against others or threaten each other. He’s very direct and firm. A leader. Boy, he did limp out big time.
New audio recordings reveal Kevin McCarthy worried that comments by his far-right colleagues could incite violence. He said he would try to rein in the lawmakers, but has instead defended them.
www.nytimes.com
It’s behind a paywall, but that’s the long and short of it, with audio proof.
This is a real-life version of the image you conjur up in your head of politicians saying one thing in public and doing another in private. It’s so out in the open, and his lies are on audio tape, video, social media and images, in the press, etc. You can call him out on his lies and inconsistencies right to his face, and he will look right at someone knowing America is watching and tell a whopper of a lie.
His base doesn’t really like him now that they’ve heard him call Trump unfit to serve, so he’s just a RINO to them. They want someone like Gym Jordache or MTG for their perceived “toughness” (I know, it’s laughable, but it’s true.) And democrats certainly don’t like him.
But he’ll probably be speaker in the end anyways, despite most of America not liking him and not voting for him. Sort of like Trump. A lot like Trump, actually. Because for both Trump and McCarthy, lies and bullshit are just means to an end. And somehow, they manage to drag enough of America along with them.