Opinion by Karen Tumulty: A Speaker Kevin McCarthy would mean only more debacles like this one
McCarthy’s bid to become speaker in 2015 and has been the object of his courtship ever since. McCarthy, however, may have bought — or at least leased — their loyalty with such moves as giving his onetime rival Rep. Jim Jordan committee posts where he can play lead attack dog against the Biden administration should Republicans regain a majority in the House, which seems a likely bet.Whether McCarthy will be leading them as speaker, however, looks far from a sure thing.
There was the time in 2015 when he told Fox News’s Sean Hannity that House Republicans’ supposed investigation of the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, was actually an effort to destroy the political prospects of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was considered the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.: “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee.
McCarthy’s spokesman issued a statement declaring that the select committee that the Republicans set up had “nothing to do with politics.”of a conversation that took place a month before Trump secured the Republican nomination in 2016, in which McCarthy suggested to fellow Republican leaders that Trump might be getting paid by Russian President Vladimir Putin. As others in the room laughed, McCarthy added: “Swear to God.” Speaker Paul D. Ryan cautioned everyone there: “No leaks.
Then as now, McCarthy first tried to claim he never made the comments. When confronted by evidence, a spokesman played down his boss’s words as “clearly an attempt at humor.” All of this is a preview of the embarrassments that lie ahead for Republicans if they allow McCarthy to ascend to the office he so assiduously covets. Give the House minority leader this much: He has shown everyone, more than once, precisely who he is — a dissembler, yes, but one who isn’t shrewd enough to cover his tracks.
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