Next in line to succeed House Speaker John Boehner, Kevin McCarthy is turning out to be something like the genetically modified spawn of Sara Palin and Dan Quayle.
Would be funny if not terrifying. Our next third-in-line to the Presidency reasons on the level of Hodor.
I love Rachel.
Here’s the WashPost’s take on that moron McCarthy and how he badly he has torpedoed the Repugnant’s Benghazi scam. Yep, he is just the right person to be the Speaker.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mccarthys-comments-on-benghazi-probe-may-be-a-political-gift-to-clinton/2015/10/01/6ceb6e88-6857-11e5-9223-70cb36460919_story.html
McCarthy hails from Bakersfield, CA, a sorry s**thole that I have to drive through (twice!) to vacation in Kings Canyon, Sequoia, or Yosemite.
I’m not surprised at all that the yoyos who live there would elect that clown to represent them.
I will be going through Bakersfield this Friday on my way to Huntington Lake (what is left of it anyway). I made the mistake of stopping there once. Once.
You guys are scaring this easterner. I’ve been to Whitney Portal and Yosemite, but came in from the east side. Except for nearly being run off the road by somebody with Utah plates going over Tioga Pass, it was a nice ride. Is there anyplace over on the side of the SN that needs to be avoided because it’s a s**thole that elects clowns?
(EAST side of the SN)
Wow. I will now put away my party favors and celebration “paraphernalia” over the resignation of John Boner. Rachel Maddow is excellent, at least. Maybe she should be the next Speaker. Perfect that she “lost it” after the long reel of inarticulations. It speaks (sort of) for itself.
Truly, this takes inarticulation to a whole new level.
For those seeking signs of the imminent collapse of the American Empire, Kevin McCarthy is the a gift.
The Maddow clips doe make me wonder thoe, is Kevin McCarthy dis-lexus?
Actually, you may be on the right track. Your bringing up dyslexia got me thinking, and I looked at the clips again. Dyslexia is a reading/visual processing disorder, and someone with dyslexia who relies on a teleprompter might get words reversed or out of order. It didn’t look like he was using a teleprompter.
McCarthy’s problem seems different and could actually be quite severe. It seems to be more symptomatic of the neurological impairment called “aphasia”, and most closely fits a blend of the Wernicke’s and anomic types. Aphasia can be caused by strokes, tumors, infections, or traumatic brain injury. Someone who cares about McCarthy should get him to a doctor for some diagnosis and treatment—-he is way beyond even the “normal” dumb stuff we heard from Quayle, W, and Palin.
That said, he may just be a moron, and that makes him well qualified to lead the Repugnants in the House, most of whom fit the same description.
His speech seems to be computer generated.
Perhaps an automat translation from chinese.
Sometimes when I google crazy math terms like “antisymmetric contorsion” or “bastard symmetry” I get similar texts from the depths of me dunno what.
Keep the place of the band on America!
> Perhaps an automat translation from chinese.
That would be an intriguing conspiracy theory 😉
Hey, don’t make bad jokes! The commies almost got away with it in The Manchurian Candidate, and that was over 50 years ago. Maybe they’ve gotten smarter since and will succeed this time.
Hmm… from Wikipedia:
“Shaw’s KGB handler is his domineering mother Eleanor, a ruthless power broker working with the Communists to execute a “palace coup d’état” to quietly overthrow the U.S. government, with her husband, McCarthy-esque Senator Johnny Iselin, as a puppet dictator.”
… so this time they have found a real McCarthy and lowered ambitions to only sink the republican party?
It’s very rare that both the vice president and the president will be removed from office. When’s the last time that happened?
Ok, yes, Nixon and Agnew. (bet you didn’t think I was old enough to remember the demons, did you?)
I doubt that anyone wants to go through that again. Although, I still think that pardoning Nixon was one of the worst things that any US president has ever done.
I think we have to stop making fun of stumble-bum Republicans because they just keep getting worse.
We made fun of Dubya, and we got Rick Perry. We mocked him and now we’re gifted Kevin McCarthy.
I’m not sure I want to see who comes next.
I don’t think it was plain dyslexia – he just had the air of a man with an IQ of about 70 or maybe 60. He didn’t even flinch, as if he didn’t even realize he was completely incoherent and off-the-rails down the rabbit hole.
No, it’s not “plain dyslexia”. Did you read what I said in an earlier comment?
“McCarthy’s problem seems different and could actually be quite severe. It seems to be more symptomatic of the neurological impairment called “aphasia”, and most closely fits a blend of the Wernicke’s and anomic types. Aphasia can be caused by strokes, tumors, infections, or traumatic brain injury. Someone who cares about McCarthy should get him to a doctor for some diagnosis and treatment—-he is way beyond even the “normal” dumb stuff we heard from Quayle, W, and Palin”.
I’m actually thinking of calling his office next week and talking to someone on his staff about this. He may be a repugnant Republican, but he IS a human being and deserves some small bit of sympathy. He may be ill rather than just stupid, and that’s why “he didn’t even realize he was completely incoherent and off-the-rails down the rabbit hole”. (And it would be nice to know what causes him to behave this way before he assumes a position of more power in Congress).
Do some googling and see what I’m talking about—start here:
http://www.aphasia.org/aphasia-definitions/
Wernicke’s aphasia (‘fluent aphasia’)
(What McCarthy seems to have)
“In this form of aphasia the ability to grasp the meaning of spoken words is chiefly impaired, while the ease of producing connected speech is not much affected. Therefore Wernicke’s aphasia is referred to as a ‘fluent aphasia.’ However, speech is far from normal. Sentences do not hang together and irrelevant words intrude-sometimes to the point of jargon, in severe cases. Reading and writing are often severely impaired.”
Anomic aphasia
(A stage a bit more severe than Wernecke’s)
“This term is applied to persons who are left with a persistent inability to supply the words for the very things they want to talk about-particularly the significant nouns and verbs. As a result their speech, while fluent in grammatical form and output is full of vague circumlocutions and expressions of frustration. They understand speech well, and in most cases, read adequately. Difficulty finding words is as evident in writing as in speech”.
Ok; not my area of competence. Still, don’t you think it’s interesting that he blends in well enough with the other Republicans that only someone with some knowledge in this area (you), seem to notice it’s not the usual Republican wacked brain at work? THAT’s scary.
Yeah, he DOES “blend” with the crazy clowns in Congress and on the 2016 campaign bus. And it IS scary that we have gotten so used to all their crazy talk that we find it so easy to just say “here’s another one”.
What is truly scary is if I’m the only one who didn’t just say “moron” after viewing the clip and had the thought that he might be an aphasia sufferer. I’m not a doctor or a psychologist, and I would hope that some of them noticed that possibility, and that they would bring it up.
Update:
Called Congressman McCarthy’s office this AM and got the runaround from three layers of gatekeepers as I tried to connect with a senior staff member.
Finally got to one who was the assistant to one of them, but since it looked like I would not get past her, I expressed my concerns about the possibility of the Congressman’s suffering from Wernicke’s aphasia—-she took notes and “promised” to pass it on. My conscience is now clear.
All should also note that a challenger to McCarthy for the Speaker’s post has appeared—-Chaffetz—-who has his own history of stepping on his tongue (which seems to be a requirement for being a Republican these days).
It is so comforting to see them stabbing each other in the back like Walmart shoppers fighting before Christmas over the last X-box.