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Is Kevin McCarthy toast?
politico.com ^ | 4/22/22 | RACHAEL BADE, EUGENE DANIELS and RYAN LIZZA

Posted on 04/22/2022 3:51:49 AM PDT by cotton1706

For years now, through controversy after controversy, House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY has bent over backward to stay in former President DONALD TRUMP’s good graces, all to serve one major purpose: He wants to be speaker someday.

That hope may have just blown up on the launchpad.

On Thursday night, NYT’s Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns delivered an absolute stunner of a scoop: an audio recording of a phone call on Jan. 10, 2021, in which McCarthy is heard clearly and unambiguously saying that Trump should resign. Listen for yourself

What happens on the tape: McCarthy essentially conspires with Rep. LIZ CHENEY (R-Wyo.) about how to get Trump to step down as president after the Jan. 6 insurrection. On the call, Cheney — now Trump’s Enemy No. 1, but at the time, the House GOP’s No. 3 leader — asks McCarthy if Trump is going to resign. McCarthy responds: “I mean, you guys all know him, too — do you think he’d ever back away? But what I think I’m going to do is I’m going to call him … The only discussion I would have with him is that I think this [impeachment resolution] will pass and it would be my recommendation you should resign.”

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: cheney; elections; liz; lizcheney; mccarthy; newyorktimes
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To: cotton1706

Snakes, venomous snakes......


21 posted on 04/22/2022 4:45:17 AM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: cotton1706

McCarthy should resign. He is a useless tool for the dark forces that rigged the election. He did nothing to so much as object to that, let alone stop it. He thinks Trump should have resigned after we won reelection? “Eff him.


22 posted on 04/22/2022 4:51:04 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: cotton1706
Silicon Valleys key puppet AND DEM in DC
He destroyed the CA Gop by signing off on the
disastrous 2010 DNC gerrymandering plan which saved his district while the Gop met elsewhere .

the evil Chamber of Crony capitalist and Koch Bros Puppet and Open Borders crazy ,

A soulless evil to the core Dem monster .

23 posted on 04/22/2022 4:51:18 AM PDT by ncalburt (they Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: GaryCrow

Remember, should the GOP win a House majority, the selection of a Speaker nominee will come in the first few weeks after the election... by the lame duck Congress.
Do you really think there will be enough renegade and freshmen critters to overthrow that candidate come the January election for Speaker?


24 posted on 04/22/2022 4:54:32 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: cotton1706

When is Mr. Trump going to wake up and understand that the republican party is not on his side now and never has been.

The fraudster Kevin McCarthy is now totally exposed for the wimpy girlie man he has always been but will Mr. Trump see it?

Now is the time to fight them Mr. Trump, withdraw your endorsement of McCarthy for anything, he is a traitor.


25 posted on 04/22/2022 4:55:20 AM PDT by Colo9250 (Keep Kevin McCarthy and watch history repeat itself.)
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To: cotton1706

Plain soft squishy white sandwich bread


26 posted on 04/22/2022 4:56:10 AM PDT by Pollard (AD)
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To: z3n

He reminds me of a smarmy used car salesman. I don’t believe a word coming out of his mouth.


27 posted on 04/22/2022 5:01:46 AM PDT by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon!)
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To: Roccus
Do you really think there will be enough renegade and freshmen critters to overthrow that candidate come the January election for Speaker?

Probably not. However, there are plenty that I'd much rather become speaker than McCarthy. The democrats strategy over the last 40 years has been to move the Overton window left, they move two steps left when they get into power and when the republicans get in they move it one step right. Over time we've got to where we are because of people like Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy. Putting republicans in that are only slightly less left than real democrats has put us on the verge of a totalitarian leftist takeover. McCarthy is an assistant democrat, he's not what we need to stop the destruction of our country.

28 posted on 04/22/2022 5:02:36 AM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: cotton1706

I actually bought the book and had Eric Cantor autograph it. Two down, one to go.


29 posted on 04/22/2022 5:06:27 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Ann Archy

Yep. Which is a possible reason McCarthy hasn’t kicked he off Committee Assignments. He knew or thought a recording might exist.


30 posted on 04/22/2022 5:12:58 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: GaryCrow

I agree with you that there are plenty more reps who would be good Speakers.

As an aside, I always liked Kevin and defended him, but this is a bridge too far and I think he does not have the insight and ability to REPRESENT us.

Sorry, Kevin, I am, unless there is some sneaky thing happening here, withdrawing my endorsement from you.

This is painful, I really though he was going to be good for our side.


31 posted on 04/22/2022 5:14:55 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: cotton1706

He should be but we know he won’t be.


32 posted on 04/22/2022 5:18:16 AM PDT by pas
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To: clee1

If that recording came from Cheney they MUST toss her out of party. That is beyond squabbling, it is dealing directly with the enemy.


33 posted on 04/22/2022 5:19:59 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: pas

If the midterm goes as expected there may be more than fifty new Republican house members. Hopefully, they will seek a change of leadership for someone more forceful and positive.


34 posted on 04/22/2022 5:28:48 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: cotton1706

Was that book cover pic taken during his Renee Ellmers days?

Before his Luntz days?


35 posted on 04/22/2022 5:29:40 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: GaryCrow

If the Republicans get out of their own way and actually take control of the House and Senate it will be a hollow victory if they then turn around and keep Mitch and Mike in positions of power !


36 posted on 04/22/2022 5:31:40 AM PDT by DrHFrog
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To: cotton1706

Tagline.


37 posted on 04/22/2022 5:32:33 AM PDT by OKSooner (Fire Kevin McCarthy and his boyfriend Luntz, and fire Mitch too. Not next week, do it right now.)
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To: eeriegeno

They are all snakes, every last one of them.


38 posted on 04/22/2022 5:32:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: OKSooner

He leads. A useless GOP…til He is gone and the turtle Mitch is gone forget the GOP…at the federal level…


39 posted on 04/22/2022 5:35:39 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: DrHFrog

OOPS... That should have said Mitch and KEVIN... Mike, as Cowboy’s head coach may actually be a better choice for Speaker come to think of it!


40 posted on 04/22/2022 5:37:19 AM PDT by DrHFrog
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