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© Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Kevin McCarthy says he's leaving Congress by year's end
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and KEVIN FREKING LOS ANGELES©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
27 Comments
dagon
Couldn't deal with the new paradigm.
Political glad-handing is not memeable and the electorate and transnational capital is not interested in it.
It is funding division, destruction of class consciousness in favor of xenophobia and prejudice, and worship of capital and "hustle culture".
MAGA and the FC deliver on this, McCarthy,was behind the times.
The Dems still have room for that old-school politicking, to the detriment of their democratic socialist wing, who actually have good, progressive ideas.
bass4funk
Which the masses didn’t want.
Which continues to be rejected more reason as to why people are fleeing States with heavily dysfunctional progressive socialist policies.
Blacklabel
What could have been. Disappointing.
next man (or woman) up!
Bob Fosse
“McCarthy is the only speaker in history to be voted out of the job.”
That’s what he’ll be remembered for.
bass4funk
As well as Republicans not being lemmings and just swallowing whatever their house speaker demands.
Bob Fosse
Lol no. Nobody will say that. He’ll be remembered for being the only speaker in US history to be voted out.
bass4funk
Yes
You know everyone, you talked to every conservative?
And the GOP for not following the house speaker like lemmings and lock-step
wallace
I previously posted he would resign which was strongly denied by the MAGA supporters. History won't be kind to him.
lincolnman
He'll be remembered as just the latest victim of Repub fratricide - being done in by his own Team Red...
Gaetz went and begged to Jeffries to partner with him to shiv his own Repub Speaker...how's that for party loyalty....ROFL...
And the kooks already have their knives out for Johnson...and will no doubt again beg Nancy, Schiff, and AOC to help them knee-cap their own guy...
Repub circular firing squad...keep it up fellas...LOL...
stormcrow
One Trump puppet exits but another Trump puppet takes his place.
bass4funk
I disagree, I think Kevin will be just fine. He’s now got so many options he can do within the private sector
Bob Fosse
See, now you get it. You can’t speak for anyone other than yourself. Well done.
lincolnman
So Repubs lost two liars this week...
George "I was a college volleyball superstar" Santos...
And Kevin "I was never going to ask Trump to resign" McCarthy...
They could stand to lose a lot more of these liars still there...
lincolnman
One thing this proves - when Repubs say "They'll never quit", that's just another lie - they then go and quit...
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/sep/20/kevin-mccarthy-says-hell-never-quit-as-congress-st/
Quitters and Losers...and a permanent minority after 2024...
bass4funk
Get what?
I always do
No worries
The Dems keep theirs…Menendez, Fetterman…Schultz…
Good riddance.
No one cares
The Dems need a lot of thinning out. A lot, 20 or more at least.
plasticmonkey
Probably work as a lobbyist or for a PAC. In other words join the swamp.
zibala
Best of luck Kevin.
Thank you for your service.
One of the great politicians who consistently outshone his Democrat colleagues.
Desert Tortoise
His private sector experience is working a sandwich shop in Bakersfield (home of the Buck Owens sound !)
Desert Tortoise
I am going to make a bet that Shannon Grove runs for his seat. She is another acolyte of the late Mark Abernathy's Western Pacific Research political machine in the San Joaquin Valley, currently a California State Senator representing much of the same region but who will be termed out. Then Vince Fong, the local member of the State Assembly will run for her seat in the State Senate. The only other person in the Abernathy machine who might also run is Jean Fuller, the former State Senator from McCarthy's district. She was termed out, making room for Fat Shannon to advance from the State Assembly to the State Senate. This is how things work in Kern County Mississippi, I mean Kern County California.
lincolnman
And get the gavel back next Nov...
To the Repub House majority...ROFL..
You did - you called him a RINO traitor....
That's about what the Dems will pick up next Nov - maybe more given the Pubs extreme abortion stance...
bass4funk
That definitely is a possibility.
I have a cousin that bought into a franchise in Southern California, so that’s very good, like I said, the possibilities and experiences for him are limitless.
lincolnman
Houseboy at Mar-A-Lago?
Caddie at Bedminster?
bass4funk
Not the way the polls are looking for the Dems when it comes to spending.
As well as the Dems, yet they keep their filth.
I did, I like the guy, do I care, no.
Not with the spending record they have.
Once the border and crime is mentioned it’s over for the Dems
lincolnman
Thank you for flipping on MSM polls...
OK, they're both filthy - and one supported a coup...
Another flip - now you like RINO traitors...
Not with the abortion record they have...
bass4funk
I didn’t
There was no coup.
No flip and I never disliked Kevin.
Wrong, people care more about crime, rising food costs, the border more than killing babies.
theFu
A good start. Removing 1 more failed Republican who didn't stand up for what was right is a good thing.
About 177 more GOP losers to empty the swamp. There are probably 20 Democrats who need to go as well.