Jamie Stiehm in dailyherald: McCarthy's 'frat House' party and the economy it will leave in wreckage.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from Bakersfield, California, comes from central casting as a fraternity president. Trim looks, blue blazers, back slaps to the bros and affable, but vain and vapid.
It's no secret that McCarthy's divided House is a mess as the speaker spoils for a Memorial Day showdown with President Joe Biden. The Democratic Senate took a"recess" at a critical point this week. Your retirement savings, your Social Security, your joblessness and your clean air are at stake, along with soaring mortgage rates and veterans' health care.
The reason is simple: to pay the bills -- such as the Trump $2 trillion tax cuts -- already approved by lawmakers. The press should not frame this as both sides of a fair fight.
But we know McCarthy is exploiting an opportunity he didn't earn through fair play and the legislative policy path. His shocking social spending cuts bill passed the House by one vote -- cast by the notorious George Santos.I read in The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress, that McCarthy is winning the PR"strategy."This plot was hatched when McCarthy was barely elected speaker in January after the 15th vote, after four days and nights.
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