Thursday's Absurdity: Axios is all Verklempt About Kevin McCarthy's Seeming Move to the Right
It’s always so darn awesome whenever Democrat activists at one of our corrupt major Democrat party propaganda outlets tosses out a piece lamenting a theory that it is the Republicans, not their precious Dems, who are moving out of the ‘mainstream’ of political discourse.
That ‘mainstream,’ of course, as defined by a Democrat/deep state megaphone like Axios is wherever the Democrat party happens to be centered at the time. The fact that the party today is centered right about in Nikita Kruschev’s belly button doesn’t matter: That’s the mainstream, because the daily media/Democrat narrative points the Democrat activists at Axios just got in their email inbox this morning say it is.
That’s how this all works, folks. It just is.
So, it was with some amusement - and probably more disgust, to be honest - that I read the story referenced by this Axios tweet this morning:
It’s written by Jonathan Swan, one of the more quasi-responsible writers for Axios, but a Democrat activist for Axios nonetheless. Swan does have some moments of clarity in his public pronouncements, but always inevitably gets pulled back into the Democrat/deep state group thing by the folks who sign his paychecks. This is a great example.
Just read the first sentence in this excerpt and watch it go down from there:
Kevin McCarthy is signaling he'll institutionalize key Trumpian priorities if he takes over as House speaker next year — aggressive tactics targeting undocumented immigrants, liberals and corporate America.
Why it matters: He'd govern with an edge and agenda in stark contrast not just to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) but to Paul Ryan, the last Republican in the role. McCarthy's vision would empower populists and pugilists to complete the Republican makeover Donald Trump drove this far.
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“key Trumpian priorities”… “aggressive tactics”… “targeting”… “he’d govern with an edge”… “agenda in stark contrast”… “empower populists and pugilists”…
On and on the hyper-sensationalist keywords roll. That’s just the first two paragraphs of this bucket of digital spit. The comparison to Paul Ryan is especially hilarious, given that he was pilloried by Axios and every other media outlet while he served as speaker and utterly slandered by them all during the 2012 campaign when he ran as Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate.
Now, because McCarthy is making a little noise about being more aggressive as speaker after the midterms than his country club Republican predecessor in the office, Ryan is suddenly about to be turned into a media icon post-mortem. It’s all too disengenuous to take, and beneath Swan as a journalist. I can only wonder how many times his editors demanded a more bombastic re-write to those first two paragraphs before he finally included sufficient inflammatory language to satisfy them and their DNC masters.
The saddest part of it is that nobody really believes any of the things McCarthy is throwing out there about become more aggressive, least of all Swan. They’re both members in good standing of the same DC Swamp club, after all, and both know that McCarthy’s just tossing out red meat in an effort to shore up his more conservative caucus members as he prepares to beat back any planned opposition for the speakership when it inevitably comes available to the new GOP majority next November.
McCarthy is every bit the milquetoast Republican Ryan was and John Boehner before him was. That’s why he was Ryan’s minority whip, the next guy in line when Ryan retired. That’s how this all works in the big DC Swamp club. He’s just another go-along-to-get-along Republican who will do nothing to really change much once he becomes speaker. Oh, he’ll kill all of Biden’s bills in the House instead of waiting for them to be killed in the senate - that’s the easy part.
But you won’t see Mr. McCarthy running roughshod like San Fran Nan has done, waging war on the opposition, ignoring house rules or making them up out of whole cloth without any process, using the capitol police as a personal gestapo and forming illegal committees to issue illegal subpoenas to investigate a fantasy insurrection.
Here’s what else you won’t see: You won’t see Kevin McCarthy, once he becomes speaker, revoking the committee positions of prominent Democrat national security threats Eric Swalwell, Ilhan Omar and Adam Schiff. He threatened to do that the other day, and when I saw the clip I just laughed out loud.
No, he’s not going to do that, folks. He’ll claim he’s going to do that, but he is not going to do that. Hell, if he does that, he’ll lose his official Swamp membership card, not to mention the cool blazer with the crocodile logo.
What McCarthy’s threats to move to become more aggressive and Swan’s lament piece at Axios today amount to is just another act in the unending show of Kabuki Theater that happens non-stop in Washington, DC, 365 days every year.
That’s all it is. Swan knows it, and is just playing his assigned role. A pox on all their houses, I say. A pox on them all.
That is all.
Kevin McCarthy is fake Republican pollster Frank Luntz's roommate in DC; that tells you everything you need to know about him.
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