the world. it s not one of those positiono you give tgiveo elderly men who have campaigned from the b their basement. if you wantent. to be the guy in ls second in line from the presidency in america, you ve got to work for it. to work and kevin mccarthy ca has worked for it this week.t whatever you think othinf, theyt the feeling mccarthy would crawl naked through a sewer to get this gig. et thi s and that s not necessarily an insult, by the way. it s what it takes, obviously. maybe it s what it should take. so if you take a deep breath and you think about it foringtor a second, nothing we have seen in washington recently the supposedly apocalyptic world ending drama of politicians arguing with each. s none of it qualifies as especially unusual or even bad. this is what democracy lookst up like when you get up close. i want one thing.ote to s you want another thing. we schedule a vote to seecase who gets it, or in this case, eleven votes, but whatever . bu how is
instinct to reward failure and mediocrity. nothing against the current occupant of that office. , ho it seems like a fine person. but given the record, how could anybody how could any rnc member for a moment consider supporting that person? id againer, i don t understand it. well, thank you, tucker.arthy i mean, one thing that kevin mccarthy has going for him actually , is that heyears hasn t failed foasr the last six years as the speaker of the house. i mean, that s something that he has in his column.r th and i can t sae y the same for, the incumbent at the rnc. she s a nicebut person.over but over the last six years,sene we ve lost the house, the senate and the white house. med worse than that, we have a sclerotic system at the rnc where members have almost no say. we don t even get to takeat the a look at a line item budget. if you r le on a budget committee. and we seem to bk e sinking into this morass of failure and simply explaining it away as well, we made more voterwe m cont