{"id":37981,"date":"2022-12-20T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37981"},"modified":"2022-12-20T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:28:08","slug":"hey-what-about-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/20\/hey-what-about-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, What About, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A while back I speculated<\/a> that Representative, then-Minority Leader, and Speaker-wannabe Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), in refusing to nominate responsible GOP<\/strong><\/em> Representatives for the January 6th Committee, was not being extraordinarily stupid, as many pundits thought, but, instead, was having a real nasty revenge on former President Trump for his actions leading up to the January 6th Insurrection. Here’s Steve Benen today engaging in a touch of schadenfreude<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was one of four Republican members\u00a0referred to the House Ethics Committee<\/a>\u00a0yesterday by the Jan. 6 committee, and three of the four\u00a0publicly<\/a>\u00a0criticized<\/a>\u00a0the developments. McCarthy, however, spent yesterday saying effectively nothing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible the Californian was so focused on his struggling bid to become House speaker that he didn\u2019t have time to consider the latest from Jan. 6 investigators. But it\u2019s also possible that McCarthy doesn\u2019t want to talk about the committee at all \u2014 because he realizes he made a mistake in how it took shape.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And, yet, I have not seen dispositive<\/a> evidence either way on this issue. I still think it’s possible that McCarthy, at night, sits down in his favorite comfy chair and savors Trump’s drawn-out demise.<\/p>\n

Or he could be squirming. Like I said, there’s no dispositive evidence either way. But I relish the thought of then-Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) and McCarthy colluding to vanquish Trump from the political arena, and even put him in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while back I speculated that Representative, then-Minority Leader, and Speaker-wannabe Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), in refusing to nominate responsible GOP Representatives for the January 6th Committee, was not being extraordinarily stupid, as many pundits thought, but, instead, was having a real nasty revenge on former President Trump for his actions \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37984,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37981\/revisions\/37984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}