Posted on 12/14/2023 3:48:42 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy delivered his farewell address on the House floor, commending Democrats for their embodiment of America’s diversity while censuring his own party. Once holding the Speaker’s gavel, McCarthy saw his tenure end abruptly in October after a historic ousting due to his failed leadership.
Earlier this month, McCarthy announced that he is retiring from Congress at the end of the year.
“I have decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways. I know my work is only getting started,” McCarthy wrote in a Wall Street Journal.
“I will continue to recruit our country’s best and brightest to run for elected office. The Republican Party is expanding every day, and I am committed to lending my experience to support the next generation of leaders.”
The California Republican was ousted in a 216-210 vote, initiated by a motion from Rep. Matt Gaetz. This humiliating end to his speakership made McCarthy the “shortest serving speaker since 1876,” and as noted by The Guardian, “the first speaker of the House forced out of the job in U.S. history.”
In his farewell address, McCarthy contrasted the diversity of the Democrats with the homogeneity of the Republicans when he became minority leader. He noted that the Democrats resembled America’s diverse fabric, while the Republicans seemed like a “restrictive country club.”
“I had got elected minority leader while another colleague from my state, Nancy Pelosi, got elected speaker. I watched the Democrats stand up, and they were very diverse. They looked like America. I watched us stand up. We had lost the majority.”
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The man is an epic twat! I agree the Republicans could stand to & needs to attract voters of all colors. The GOP does look a little like the middle aged, white guys golf & tennis team. That’s an honest & helpful critique of one of the many realities that has to improve in future elections. But how he worked in a praise of Democrats, particularly when he knows that for a century or better, they became diverse & triumphant by being underhanded & appealing to people’s basest instincts. They stoked racism & grievance every single election I can remember. The fact that! What a he would choose a farewell address to praise the Godawful opposition is telling. What a freaking twat!! Uniparty indeed! 🙄🥱
True colors are showing. Too bad the liar didn’t tell anyone before he was elected.
The quote from Bullworth said it best:
Angry black woman: Are you sayin’ the Democratic Party don’t care about the African-American community?
Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth: Isn’t that OBVIOUS? You got half your kids are out of work and the other half are in jail. Do you see ANY Democrat doing anything about it? Certainly not me! So what’re you gonna do, vote Republican? Come on! Come on, you’re not gonna vote Republican! Let’s call a spade a spade!
[Loud, angry booing]
Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth: I mean - come on! You can have a Billion Man March! If you don’t put down that malt liquor and chicken wings, and get behind someone other than a running back who stabs his wife, you’re NEVER gonna get rid of somebody like me!
Fraud living a fraudulent life.
He’ll now be a regular on MessNBC, CNN, etc.
Thank God for Matt Gaetz! Gaetz exposed this fake!
Yes he did.
Validating every awful thing about this loser.
Exits as the despicable we always knew he was.
Dumbest thing I have ever seen by a so called leader. Democrats are not America McCarthy. It explains why you are “ex Speaker”!
Finally showed his true colors.
Hang the votes for him to continue as Speaker around the necks of all RINOs
I’m going to assume now that he’s being blackmailed and also that he could possibly be a pedophile.
Pedophile?
Just another indicator of the depth of the ideological rot in the GOP...
What a piece of $hit.
Not diverse? Tell that to Myrna Flores who is running for Congress in Texas, Dr. Ben Carson, the late Herman Cain, Nikki Halley, Vivek, Congressman John James, Congressman West from Texas, Byron McDonald, the two black GOP women from Michigan and Massachusetts who ran for Secretary of State, Abe Humadel in Arizona, The Hispanic woman in Nevada who ran for Attorney General, Cameron in Kentucky, a recent U,S, Senate candidate in Georgia, etc.
This just shows that he was a fake, lying poser right from the start. Just like most all the other GOP leadership. They are there for power. Second-tier power because that’s all the good they are. Can’t lead, only follow and that means they let/like Democrats in power. They only have to appear to be the opposition but in reality they’re right there lock-step in cahoots with the Democrats and the power and money the Democrats deign to give them.
AFAIC, the first clue anyone should have recognized about him was the back slapping pictures of him and Paul Ryan.
LOL
He was fired, and blamed everyone but himself.
Now he lauds the Democrats and trashes the Right, thereby
proving everyone who wanted him out, was spot on.
Who advises this guy? Fleas?
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