US Rep Kevin McCarthy is currently running to succeed John Boehner as Speaker of the House. McCarthy has some problems. First and foremost is raging hoof in mouth disease. He brags that the House committee on Benghazi has been instrumental in bringing Clinton down in the polls. That's super dumb. Benghazi is about why military support was denied a US ambassador under fire. It's about why two US general officers were relieved of command that night. Chairman Trey Goudy has bent over backwards to keep the committee working on real stuff, rather than becoming a get-Hillary operation. And in one short brag on TV, McCarthy has blown all that away. Nobody is ever going to believe the Benghazi committee is anything but political retribution now.
Plus, McCarthy is Boehner's right hand man. Expect more of the same, only less effective. Boehner didn't get all that much done, but he was respected by every one, his word was good, and if there was a chance of talking people around to his point of view, Boehner could do it. McCarthy lacks that kind of respect, especially now that he opened his big mouth and torpedoed the Benghazi investigation. And, he will continue Boehner's policies, he approves of them, if he didn't he wouldn't be Boehner's #2 man.
We ought to do better than McCarthy.
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And, as of just this morning, looks like we will do better. McCarthy withdrew from the Speaker's race. Only a few hours after I posted this.
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