Mark Meadows and Kevin McCarthy: Where do Republicans get these worms?
In politics, it’s an axiom if not a flat-out rule that you should have, if not a soul, at least a brain. What, then, to make of a political party that elevates from its ranks to positions of power people who have neither? Dear readers, I give you Mark Meadows and Kevin McCarthy, two slithering dwellers of the political underground which has swallowed the entire Republican Party.
Just for fun, let’s begin our examination of the question of Meadows with the courageous Cassidy Hutchinson. You remember her, don’t you? At 25 years of age, she was a White House aide and assistant to Meadows when he was Trump’s chief of staff in the White House. Her name would have disappeared into the deep shadows of history like other minor White House officials had she not been called to testify before the Jan. 6 Committee last year and sat there before the committee and live television cameras and delivered what turned out to be earth shattering testimony.
Delivered in a flat, unemotional voice, her story about Meadows’ inaction in the White House on Jan. 6 was the most chilling of her testimony, at least to me. Here was Meadows, who served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, who rose to the powerful position of ranking member on the House Oversight Committee and chair of the arch-conservative Freedom Caucus and caught the attention of Donald Trump, who appointed him to White House Chief of Staff.
Hutchinson described the day of Jan. 6 in the White House as calm after Trump returned from inciting the crowd with his speech on the Ellipse, just outside of the White House. Televisions were on all over the White House, while two miles away down Pennsylvania Avenue, the seat of the government of the United States was under assault by a mob that was beating police officers and breaking windows and invading the Capitol building and holding up the business of the government, which at that moment was certifying the electoral results of the 2020 election. As images of the bloody violence at the Capitol appeared on TV screens, there sat Meadows in his office, peering at the screen of his cell phone. He would remain that way the rest of the afternoon.
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What do we expect? Since the says of the ever mediocre, B-list actor Ronald Reagan, Republicans have elevated no one who wasn't either ideologically pure (Gingrich, Jordan, Delay, Armey) or mediocrity (W, Meadows, McCarthy). The ideological provide the distraction, the mediocre can be easily controlled. It's all in service to one thing - the billionaire class. The problem they have now is that the monster they created is destroying the front organization. Maybe sooner, maybe later, the Republican Party will be no more and the billionaires will have to find a new front. My money is on No Labels becoming that front. They are laying the ground work now and will surge to the forefront after Trump and the MAGAs are defeated in 2024.
To be called a worm has become a little used, but no less effective slur. The first and later stages are parasitic. The host could safely be said to be the disgraced 45. Worms also have brains, though not at all complex. The crackpot caucus are Republicans in name only. In reality they are worms, which Mr. T. has brought to our attention.
Our only hope is that when the Congresspeople are up after a mere two year term (which can admittedly seem like a lifetime) the exterminators, I mean, the voters, sober up and step on them. Then I will be most interested in the postlude for people like Gym Jordan who, in effect, has rendered himself unemployable. 😊