the way kevin mccarthy is, if you think there s a prize at the end of this road for you, buddy, there isn t? back when tara was talking about, i remember covering kevin mccarthy in bakersfield. he was running as a moderate. he was going to be arnold schwarzenegger s best friend. he was running to move the party to the middle. that version would not recognize the person we ve seen. it just tells you that kevin mccarthy stands for nothing. he means nothing. he has no conviction, no compass. whatever he wants. and his caucus knows that. they know he s pretending. they know he s posing. that s why they are never going to make him speaker of the house. i m sorry. oh, my god, the jim jordan thing has just blown my mind. i want to put in the time we have left, i want to put up this call from the des moines register that i actually thought was really interesting. here s the question. when it comes to the events on