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This should have been Kevin McCarthy’s week of celebration and victory laps, with the U.S. House of Representatives set to flip to the Republicans next week on his watch. He should be unveiling all the big policy proposals and plans the GOP House has for the nation. He should be holding court with the D.C. press, talking about his rise to power.
Instead, he’s hiding out retweeting stuff from November and doing his best to avoid the latest scandal that has the Capitol agog: Rep.-elect and pathological liar George Santos, the incoming New York Republican whose entire life might be fictitious.
Of course, part of McCarthy’s problem is that it’s not a sure thing that he is victorious—that is that he’ll be able to get the speakership next week without a humiliating genuflection to the whackjob caucus. The ringleaders against him reiterated Tuesday that they’re not backing down.
“Our leadership requires change,” Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, the guy who is challenging him for the job, said Tuesday. Another, Rep. Matt Gaetz from Florida, who still isn’t in jail, added: “We need someone like Jim Jordan as Speaker of the House.” Jim Jordan, judging by last reports, still doesn’t want the job. He wants to stay head of the Judiciary Committee where he can get maximum yelling-on-camera exposure.
