Former US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has decided to become a former Congressman To spend time with family? – No. He has said nothing specific about how he will fill his “free” time, but intends to work to get Republicans elected, especially in the seats of Republicans who voted to remove him as Speaker.
The Californian pledged to “serve America in new ways. I know my work is only getting started.”
“I will continue to recruit our country’s best and brightest to run for elected office,” he continued. “The Republican Party is expanding every day, and I am committed to lending my experience to support the next generation of leaders.”
The GOP is barely functional when they have a majority. His departure will start the new year by making what there is of the current majority even thinner. It begs the question: why get different Republicans elected if there’s no impetus to advance so-called Republican priorities now?
Were you as Speaker, the most important priority? Seems like it. We have to assume those are the sorts of Republicans you’d back. Does that mean they will also, like you, help Biden advance his agenda or sit on their hands instead of doing anything meaningful (political theater doesn’t count) to address corruption, budget process, or using that soapbox to excoriate Dems for defending the Biden Crime Family, going to war with parents, and building on already unsustainable generational debt?
Whatever McCarthy has planned, he knows what it is and is making himself available. Being in Congress was somehow an obstacle. By stepping aside, regardless of the lost vote or promises to replace himself with more later, he can do whatever that new thing is.
So, what is it?
