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2023-12-07 Home Front: Politix
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announces he will retire this month
[NYPOST] Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Wednesday that he will retire at the end of 2023, saying his “work is only getting started” in recruiting other Republicans to run for Congress.

McCarthy (R-Calif.), 58, wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that 17 years after first running to represent California in the House, he had “decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways.”

“I’m an optimist. How could I not be? I’m the son of a firefighter. For 17 years I’ve served in the same congressional seat — the same office in which I was once denied an internship. Only in America,” he wrote.

“I will continue to recruit our country’s best and brightest to run for elected office. The Republican Party is expanding every day, and I am committed to lending my experience to support the next generation of leaders.”

McCarthy’s departure will bring House Republicans’ majority down to two votes, following the expulsion of lying Rep. George Santos (R-NY) on Dec. 1.
Posted by Fred 2023-12-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Strange, very strange. He still had another 20 good years.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-07 00:05||   2023-12-07 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 
Posted by DarthVader 2023-12-07 00:15||   2023-12-07 00:15|| Front Page Top

#3 We need about another 530 more retirements from the Hill.

Gee, I sure hope he wasn't on any of the Epstein Express flight manifests.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-12-07 05:03||   2023-12-07 05:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Seems like the big talkers with no results GOP congressman leave quickly: McCarthy, Trey Gowdie…
Posted by Airandee 2023-12-07 06:50||   2023-12-07 06:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps he can....'bump into' a few of his colleagues on his way out the door.
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Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-07 07:39||   2023-12-07 07:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Who?
Posted by Cesare 2023-12-07 08:24||   2023-12-07 08:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Door...ass...bang.
(Newfangled version of the 'don't let the screen door hit you in the ass on the way out' of my youth.)
We are now shown that all of McCarthy's yammering about 'standing together for the good of the party' meant precisely dick. Take his ball and go, to a CNN gig likely.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-12-07 09:01||   2023-12-07 09:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Anyone who actually believes any politician is on the level is a dope.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-07 09:28||   2023-12-07 09:28|| Front Page Top

#9 And McHenry is retiring. Him I might miss.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-12-07 09:56||   2023-12-07 09:56|| Front Page Top

#10 McCarthy has a lot of power in CA and he likely controls a bunch of money. He will continue to work against us from a different vantage.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-07 10:03||   2023-12-07 10:03|| Front Page Top

#11 Frank Luntz might have to get a new roomie
Posted by Frank G 2023-12-07 10:39||   2023-12-07 10:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Remember he gets to convert his 'reelection fund' to personal use. Bets he got that topped off as speaker?
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-12-07 11:55||   2023-12-07 11:55|| Front Page Top

#13 I heard Luntz doesnt date losers.
Posted by mossomo 2023-12-07 13:32||   2023-12-07 13:32|| Front Page Top

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