I now am able to identify the poster boy for political cowardice, which I feel compelled to mention here given that my bride and I have visited his home state.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy needs to stand up, take a bow and yell from the highest roof he can find that “My name is Kevin and I am a coward.”
McCarthy serves as House of Representatives Republican leader. He wants to become the next speaker of the House, presuming that the GOP wins a majority of House seat after the midterm election.
McCarthy once chastised Donald J. Trump for refusing to act during the 1/6 insurrection. He made speeches on the House floor that condemned Trump’s inaction, his refusal to stop the assault on our democratic process.
Then the damnedest thing happen. Trump left office after the insurrection, holed up at his glitzy house in Florida and then McCarthy went there to have his picture made with the idiot he condemned after the insurrection. They stood there mugging for cameras. They shook hands and McCarthy acted for all the world like someone who didn’t say what he said on 1/6.
When the time came to impeach Trump a second time for inciting the assault on our government, McCarthy voted “no.” In the year and some months since that fateful impeachment, McCarthy has remained silent while evidence has piled up about Trump’s involvement in inciting the attack; he hasn’t condemned Trump for seeking to end the threat against Vice President Mike Pence’s life.
Where does that leave the House Republican caucus? It leaves them with deciding whether to anoint a coward as the speaker of the House … if that comes to pass.
McCarthy’s cowardice simply is an amazing spectacle to behold.