Garcia: Political principles are ‘an inconvenience’ for wannabe House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
When Democrats took back the House 12 years later, no one even considered challenging Nancy Pelosi, who had been House minority leader.The same principle applied to the 2010 tea-party wave election, which brought the GOP back into favor on Capitol Hill. John Boehner had been the Republican leader in the House, and he ran unopposed for speaker.The California Republican has been the House minority leader for the past four years.
So, nearly a month after this year’s midterm elections, why are some House Republicans refusing to support McCarthy’s candidacy?McCarthy remains the obvious choice for speaker. Even with the noisy intraparty resistance he’s facing, no opponent has materialized. But this isn’t shaping up to be the kind of coronation we saw in 1994, 2006 or 2010.A year after McCarthy suggested his party could pick up more than 60 House seats, they ended up gaining fewer than 10.
For Democrats, it was the best midterm performance in 20 years by a party in control of the White House.The strange thing about McCarthy’s rocky path to the speakership is that his Republican detractors are the same kind of extremist, right-wing hardliners who sabotaged the GOP’s midterm prospects in state after state with culture-wars fear-mongering and false claims that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent.McCarthy’s great talent has always been his eagerness to please.
Over the years, he has not only recruited Republican candidates for Congress, he has gone out of his way to help them with their adjustment to Capitol Hill., the author of “Thank You For Your Servitude,” tells the story of McCarthy flying on Air Force One with then-President Donald Trump and noticing that Trump liked only cherry- and strawberry-flavored Starbursts. So McCarthy sent Trump a special jar of Starbursts with only those two flavors.
McCarthy loves the trappings of his job and the chance to mingle with celebrities. Political principles are kind of an inconvenience for him.
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