Kevin McCarthy: “You asked for it, you got it”

By BRUCE LOWITT

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, concerned that he is well shy of the 218 votes he’ll need to take over the speakership when Republicans become the majority in January, is meeting with members whose primary goal appears to be torpedoing his career as well as the GOP in general.

“I believe that as we work out our differences, we’ll agree that the racists, bigots, crazies and morons on our side of the aisle will support my leadership if I yield to their insane demands,” McCarthy said. “I don’t have any problem with that. I mean, you’ve got to give a little to get a little, right?”

Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Whitesheet, said he told McCarthy that he is unlikely to get the gavel he has been campaigning for since his junior year at Bakersfield (Calif.) High School.

“What I said was that we need strong leadership and the one thing that disqualifies him is his wussiness,” Scalise said. “Ooh, hey, that’s a great title for him. ‘Yes, Your Wussiness.’ ‘Of course, Your Wussiness.’ Fits him like – what do they call those things that – oh, yeah. Like a maxi pad.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Incendiary, an outspoken McCarthy critic, has amassed support from the House Alabaster Caucus. “There’s no way I can back him,” she said. “I once saw him shaking hands with Dan Goldman and Jared Moskowitz. I mean, really?”

But McCarthy said Greene has told him she will support his speakership if he reinstates her to the Budget panel and Education and Labor Committee “and if I give her a few more assignments. I would have no trouble making her the chair of the committees of Armed Services, Appropriations, Rules, Oversight and Reform, Ethics, Homeland Security, Judiciary, and especially Science, Space and Technology since she knows all about Jewish space lasers.

“Oh, and the Select Committee to Investigate the January Sixth Attack on the United States Capitol, too,” McCarthy said, “assuming it’s still around once we take over.”

Rep. Bob Good, R-Nativist, who calls himself a “hard no” opposing McCarthy, told CNN there are “House members who would excite and unite Republicans across the country as candidates, members who stand united behind Paul Gosar and Nick Fuentes and Alex Jones and Stewart Rhodes and Viktor Orban and Tucker Carlson.”

McCarthy, who would need strong support from Matt Gaetz, R-Pubescent, to have a chance of retaining his hold as leader, said he “would have no trouble making him the chair of the committees of Homeland Security, Judiciary, Armed Services, Ethics, Appropriations, Science, Space and Technology, Rules, and Oversight and Reform – and he’s been asking about chairing the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families. Sure. Why not?”

Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Roadblock, former chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus that stands in McCarthy’s way, said the minority leader has to guarantee specific rules changes, like certain members would be counted as only three-fifth of a vote, and members’ maternity leave would be limited to the day of delivery.

McCarthy said he had no problem with Biggs’ demands and “would have no trouble making him the chair of the committees of Science, Space and Technology, Armed Services, Judiciary, Appropriations, Homeland Security, Rules, Oversight and Reform, and Ethics.”