The McCarthy Tapes - PAH!

Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin's book "This Will Not Pass," which chronicles the pandemonium over the January 6 insurrection, has some revealing information.  House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has been caught on tape saying that he wanted to ask Trump to resign the Presidency as a result of the insurrection, and he wanted to try to silence the far-right members of the House who were stirring things up and possibly inspiring violence against congressional members of both parties - by taking these far-right House members off social media.

To those of you who hoped that this would discombobulate McCarthy's bid for the House speakership should the Republicans win back the House (now very likely) and possibly trip up the GOP itself, think again, sucka.  McCarthy said that his comments about Trump and far-right House members were merely speculative (though he's clearly lying), and in a meeting of the House Republican caucus yesterday, he received a standing ovation.  Trump himself says his relationship with McCarthy is still good.

In other words, McCarthy - like every other member of the Republican Party - is totally shameless.  These tapes will have no detrimental effect on his ambitions.   The same sort of utter shamelessness that made icons out of Madonna, Michael Jackson and other MTV pop stars back in the eighties now permeates in Washington.  The Republicans will ride that shamelessness to power in 2022 and 2024.

But then, being shameless to achieve power isn't anything new, as anyone who's studied the history of the Third Reich should know.