{"id":1443094,"date":"2023-12-09T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1443094"},"modified":"2023-12-09T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T00:35:00","slug":"they-look-like-america-clip-of-kevin-mccarthy-fluffing-democrats-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/they-look-like-america-clip-of-kevin-mccarthy-fluffing-democrats-goes-viral\/1443094\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;They Look Like America&#8221;: Clip Of Kevin McCarthy Fluffing Democrats Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">&#8220;They Look Like America&#8221;: Clip Of Kevin McCarthy Fluffing Democrats Goes Viral<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>If political windsock Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wants to rehabilitate his image as a snake in the grass, <strong>he&#8217;s got his work cut out for him<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/mccar2%281%29.jpg?itok=1jIZtNFv\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A clip of an Oct. 28 address given at Oxford University in the UK has <strong>gone viral<\/strong> (oddly, or not, within a day of the former speaker&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/kevin-mccarthy-will-support-donald-trump-president-2024\">endorsement<\/a> of Donald Trump), in which <strong>the former speaker<\/strong> <strong>sings the praises of the Democratic party, while slamming Republicans<\/strong> just three weeks after his ouster as House Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you look at the Democrats, they actually look like America. When I look at my party, we look like the most restrictive country club in America,&#8221; McCarthy said to laughter and applause.<\/p>\n<p>Watch:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I look at democrats they actually look like america, when I look at [republicans] they look like the most restrictive country club&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Vq1P6zwTB\">pic.twitter.com\/9Vq1P6zwTB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Edgar \uea00 (@EdBonillaB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdBonillaB\/status\/1729599514363723823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <em>The Blaze<\/em>&#8216;s Auron MacIntyre notes: &#8220;McCarthy is not some weird outlier, he is not a &#8220;RINO&#8221;, he held THE key leadership position in the party until a few weeks ago and was defended by &#8220;serious-minded people who wanted to get things done,&#8221;&#8221; adding &#8220;This is the Republican Party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are a few good GOP members, but most are simply stewards for the regime, an R next to their name gets them elected in their district but they fully buy into the prestige hierarchy presented to them by the powers that be<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AuronMacintyre\/status\/1733486747839795495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are 100s just like him, it&#8217;s not one guy<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AuronMacintyre\/status\/1733487091751829764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The clip resurfaced within a day or so of McCarthy announcing his support for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will support the president. I will support President Trump,&#8221; McCarthy told CBS Sunday Morning in a preview of the interview released Friday, adding that <strong>he would gladly accept a position on Trump&#8217;s cabinet\u00a0 <\/strong>if one were offered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the right position. Look, if I\u2019m the best person for the job, yes,&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;I worked with President Trump on a lot of policies. <strong>We worked together to win the majority, but we also have a relationship where we\u2019re very honest with one another<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Biden stays as the nominee for the Democrats, I believe Donald Trump will win.&#8221; Former House <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerMcCarthy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpeakerMcCarthy<\/a> talks with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/costareports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@costareports<\/a> about his future, including his openness to serving in a prospective Trump cabinet, THIS SUNDAY. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5oj2ZTNO3w\">pic.twitter.com\/5oj2ZTNO3w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Sunday Morning \ud83c\udf1e (@CBSSunday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSunday\/status\/1733237926534824012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The time to grow a political spine has long passed, Kevin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/latest%284%29.jpg?itok=zm5uzsHs\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sat, 12\/09\/2023 &#8211; 14:35<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/they-look-america-clip-kevin-mccarthy-fluffing-democrats-goes-viral\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/they-look-america-clip-kevin-mccarthy-fluffing-democrats-goes-viral<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They Look Like America&#8221;: Clip Of Kevin McCarthy Fluffing Democrats Goes Viral If political windsock Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wants to rehabilitate his image as a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}