Kevin McCarthy spent a large portion of his political career catering to former President Donald Trump and his allies, hoping that one day it would result in his being voted in as House Speaker, but on Tuesday, he was rewarded instead with the type of humiliation we have not seen on the House floor in a century: Being forced to smirk through repeated public beatings at the hands of his own members.
McCarthy and Texas GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw and their ilk convinced themselves that they could throw in with the world’s biggest grifter, tell lie after lie after lie to their own voters, campaign for a boat of shithouse rats so crazy that they make yesterday’s crazies blush—and at the end be rewarded with their loyal support.
Those who threw in their lot with Trump will soon see the demise of their political careers and McCarthy saw his today.
What McCarthy found is that crazy begets crazy. Once the floodgates opened the 5 Never Kevin votes had ballooned to an unthinkable 19. And then the same 19 voted against him a second time. And in the third vote the 5 that had become 19 was now 20. In desperation, the Republicans voted to adjourn the House until noon Wednesday.
We know no one of any consequence is paying attention to Trump and his daily raving. Trump has degenerated into a fat old man, living in a Florida motel room, playing golf every day, and shouting at the neighborhood children to “get off my lawn”. McCarthy is headed in the same direction.