“Kevin’s a piece of shit,” Kinzinger exclaimed. “And let’s just be honest about this, because he will say whatever he needs to say to stay in power. I’m not even saying that gratuitously to be mean to him. It’s just a fact.”
Kinzinger also took issue with McCarthy recently stripping several Democrats of committee assignments, which Republicans have justified as payback over Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) getting booted from committees during the last Congress.
The ex-congressman pointed out that unlike McCarthy’s unilateral decision, the House votes to kick Green and Gosar off their assignments over violently extreme rhetoric were bipartisan—and McCarthy himself previously removed ex-Rep. Steve King (R-IA) from committees for expressing sympathy for white nationalism.
In the end, Kinzinger said that McCarthy would continue to stand by Santos because the GOP’s House majority is so razor-thin that he needs every loyal member he can get.
“Kevin needs his vote,” he proclaimed. “If this was a 20-vote majority, he’d throw Santos under the bus, but it’s a five-vote [majority] so he needs him.”
Speaking of Marge:
Kevin “Piece of Shit” McCarthy has empowered her as the most important woman in the US Congress. And she’s saying that Ashli Babbit was trying to stop the insurrection.
Right.