{"id":57894,"date":"2023-08-31T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T22:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57894"},"modified":"2023-08-31T15:00:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T22:00:52","slug":"kevin-mccarthy-cant-even-lie-well-about-his-wretched-record-as-squeaker-of-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57894","title":{"rendered":"Kevin McCarthy Can&#8217;t Even Lie Well About His Wretched Record as Squeaker of the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been seven months since Kevin McCarthy was selected by his caucus to become the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives after a torturous fifteen vote marathon. In order to finally secure the post that he had craved for years, he traded away virtually all of the authority that normally comes with it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Kevin McCarthy Can't Even Lie Well About His Wretched Record as Squeaker of the House%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57894\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-mccarthy.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Kevin McCarthy\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>McCarthy&#8217;s deeply unethical promises to the fringiest faction of his caucus has obligated him to concede to the demands of crackpots like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz in order to keep his speakership. That obligation now includes entertaining unwarranted and evidenceless efforts to impeach President Biden. It is such a brazenly political charade that even Fox News has criticized it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57515\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UH-OH: Even Fox News Rejects the GOP\u2019s \u2018Evidence\u2019 to Impeach Biden as \u2018Completely Unverified\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having nothing to present to voters as resembling an accomplishment, McCarthy is embarking on a press tour to disseminate flagrant falsehoods and fantasies. In furtherance of that agenda, he told one television interviewer that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Someone did an analysis of this Congress versus the last Congress. And in the last Congress the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate, and the presidency. But this Congress has actually produced more bills. More become law, which makes it more difficult. But the bigger things we also changed is we opened the House back up. Members now have to come to work.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Republicans have made this Congress more productive, more open, and more transparent than at any time in recent history.<\/p>\n<p>The People\u2019s House is getting back to work. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OjPd8Cpddz\">pic.twitter.com\/OjPd8Cpddz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerMcCarthy\/status\/1697226137766875576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First of all, it&#8217;s likely that the <em>&#8220;someone&#8221;<\/em> who did the analysis that McCarthy referenced &#8211; but conspicuously failed to identify &#8211; was probably Sean Hannity or some similar right-wing toady. But more to the point, the alleged analysis is wholly unrelated to reality. Here are the facts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_acts_of_the_118th_United_States_Congress\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">118th United States Congress<\/a>, which began on January 3, 2023, and will end on January 3, 2025, has enacted 13 public laws and zero private laws.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_acts_of_the_117th_United_States_Congress\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">117th United States Congress<\/a>, which began on January 3, 2021, and ended on January 3, 2023, enacted 362 public laws and 3 private laws.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now some observers may object to that because the current 118th Congress has only just begun, and it&#8217;s unfair to compare it to the 117th Congress, when Nancy Pelosi was Speaker, and had two years to complete their work. But even if you just count the bills from the 117th that were passed in the same seven month period, there were still 39 bills, which is three times as many as McCarthy is bragging (lying) about.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, among the bills passed in the first year of the 117th Congress were the historic <em>&#8220;American Rescue Plan&#8221;<\/em> that brought the nation out of the pandemic recession, and the <em>&#8220;Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act&#8221;<\/em> that created millions of jobs restoring America&#8217;s roads, bridges, airports, and communications. None of the GOP&#8217;s 13 bills in this session had anywhere near that level of benefit to the nation as those passed during Pelosi&#8217;s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, while McCarthy has allegedly been in charge as Speaker, he has focused almost exclusively on ultra-partisan hearings aimed at maligning President Biden and other Democrats. They have sought to slander the Biden family, including his son Hunter and First Lady Jill. They are also seeking to impeach multiple members of the Biden administration, including Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Chris Wray, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. In their spare time they are trying to defund the prosecutors and judges associated with the many criminal cases of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>All that McCarthy and the GOP have left at this point are lies, threats to tank the economy, meritless personal attacks, and boycotts of Barbie, Mickey Mouse, and light beer. Their agenda is so warped that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57417\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Biden even used it in a satirical and hilarious mock campaign ad<\/a><\/strong>. Or maybe Republicans actually think that their doctrine of dystopia is what the public wants from their representatives in Washington. If so, that will work out well in next year\u2019s elections &#8211; for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57665\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Squeaker McCarthy Just Wants to Help Biden Clear His Name \u2013 From the GOP\u2019s Vile Lies About Him<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56328\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New GOP Subcommittee Chair Openly Admits His Only Purpose is to \u2018Make Life Hell\u2019 for Democrats<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57212\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shadow GOP House Speaker Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces the Party\u2019s Ludicrous Top Priorities<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been seven months since Kevin McCarthy was selected by his caucus to become the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives after a torturous fifteen vote marathon. In order to finally secure the post that he had craved for years, he traded away virtually all of the authority that normally comes with it. 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