December 2, Orange County RegistryIt is one of Southern California’s leading local newspapers.”There is nothing wrong with reminding members that their primary job is to endorse the nation’s founding documents. register said. It would also be a good PR stunt to show that the Republican Party actually cares about upholding constitutional values, the editorial admitted.
Two days after the editorial was published, Mr McCarthy, who for the past 23 months was the person he had worked to reintegrate into society, had instigated a riot in 2020, attacked Congress, and seized power peacefully. After trying to block the transfer, Mr. McCarthy somewhat undermined that message. He posted on Truth Social a terrifying call to “end” the Constitution to regain power. FührerprinzipAnyone?
Reluctantly, many Republican senators reacted. After several days of silence, Mitch McConnell finally said it was hard to imagine being able to swear an oath to any president on record calling for an end to constitutional rule. John Cornyn called it “irresponsible”. Even Ted Cruz got the ball rolling for calling Trump’s idea “wrong.” All of this is a bit like calling a Category 5 hurricane slightly windier or Death Valley summer temperatures slightly warmer. It’s a maliciously depressing version of the “’tis but a scratch” scene in . Monty Python and the Holy Grailthe knight is hacked to pieces and rises again with each lost body part, verbally minimizing damage.
But McCarthy couldn’t even muster that level of mild criticism. It’s a “nothing here” moment. Instead of criticizing Trumpty Dumpty for his silly and dangerous remarks, Bakersfield headed to the metaphorical hills of Trump as he tried to stem a Trumpite uprising led by far-right Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs. I have chosen not to comment on outrageous posts. Derailing his boundless and increasingly desperate ambitions to become Speaker of the House.
McCarthy’s silence this week has been deafening. Give him the benefit of the doubt, if he desperately masters his oratorical skills so that he can perfectly speak every line of the sacred manuscript that the Mar-a-Lago puppeteers are about to shred. Even assuming brushing up, his already tenuous credibility fades by the minute.He wanted a red wave in his November but due to the extremism of his party and its violent and volatile nature jeffe, Donald J. Trump confirmed it was nothing more than a dribble. He hoped he could use his time in office to unleash a devastating wave of investigations that would ultimately neutralize the Biden administration. Instead, he must tap dance around the Liberal caucus that continues to defend a former president who dines with the Nazis and muses loudly about ending the world’s most enduring experiment in constitutional rule. I have to.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has disappeared from public view after losing the presidential run-off to rival Lula da Silva. A week later, one of his aides made the somewhat bizarre announcement that tropical Trump Bolsonaro was unable to appear in public because he was suffering from a skin infection that prevented him from wearing pants. I did. It’s a pretty satisfying image. The ferocious Bolsonaro had boiled over an election loss he couldn’t have imagined, but was prevented from speaking to his adoring fans by the fact that he wasn’t wearing pants.
Trump’s increasingly insane rhetoric in recent weeks, the epic record of failed midterm elections, the cascade of legal crises, crumbling popular support, and talks with the Nazis have cumulatively slowed his pace. Equivalent to retarding tropical skin disease. The corridors of his Mar-a-Lago complex are bare. The emperor is not really dressed at this time. His flattering supporters, the McCarthy and Lindsay Graham families of the world, seem to be starting to realize that. Yet the Republican Trump cult is so entrenched that House Speaker McCarthy doesn’t even seize the perfect opportunity to shake off the blame that is Donald.
In 2016, the Republican National Platform paid a rhetorical homage to the Constitution.
We believe in the Constitution as our founding document. We believe the Constitution was written not as a flexible document but as our permanent contract. , must be preserved without compromise for future generations.
Of course, it was boozy back then, and it’s even worse boozy now. Four years after Republicans first accepted Trump as their presidential candidate, Republicans have eschewed specific policy platforms and agreed to support whatever Donald Trump asked them to support. Two years later, with Trump running for president again, McCarthy’s house is likely to continue covering America’s would-be president, with a decidedly anti-constitutional message. It seems that. country’s system of governance.
There’s something about this spectacle that completely stinks. California has produced a number of powerful politicians in recent years, both men and women taking the stage of Congress and crafting policies that have profoundly changed the social treaty of the country. McCarthy has no such ambitions. He’s a man who’s completely obsessed with power for power’s sake, and he’s willing to keep dancing with the devil, even if it takes him some time to make sure he grabs the speaker’s gavel.
