Post-Boehner gibberish to come

Dana Milbank recaps future "mis-speaker" Kevin McCarthy's speech delivered yesterday to a flock of flighty neoconservatives. Some of the tortured oratorical highlights:

"We must engage this war of radical Islam if our life depended on it because it does," [McCarthy] opined.

"I have visited Poland, Hungria, Estonia," he said, and also "visited in our, uh, the allies in the Arab Gulf."

McCarthy called for "an effective politically strategy to match the military strategy," and he lamented that "we have isolated Israel while bolding places like Iran." He blamed President Obama’s White House for "putting us in tough decisions for the future," but he voiced hope that a "safe zone would create a stem the flow of refugees."

Russia’s hybrid warfare became "high-bred warfare."

Kevin McCarthy may well become constitutionally second in line to the presidency; or, more directly, the House's reincarnation of the Oval Office's predecessor.

Milbank observed that "With the death of Yogi Berra, the new speaker may become the most famous mis-speaker in America. But in a sense, it may not matter what he says, because his colleagues won’t be listening to him anyway."

Upon reading that, I was about to object by counter-observing that McCarthy's muddlement is precisely the kind of conservative genius that would warrant heedful respect from his colleagues. This observation, however, was unnecessary. Milbank was ahead of me. "[McCarthy's] garbled language, by confusing everybody, could help him blur the differences within his caucus."

 

Comments

[ren]

There are between 120 and 175 dialects spoken in the Philippines. It's time we caught up.

[Peter G]

Golly, yet another right wing interlectual.

[Monty]

You gents are funny....is this one of the legacies of GWB ?

[Peter G]

It occurs to me that a rare opportunity presents itself. This pinnacle of oratorical skill might, through the power of words, make himself a likely VP candidate. Then, if a meteor strike should wipe out the entire Democratic field during a debate he could then do something only accomplished twice in American history. As VP and president of the Senate he could hold both the office of Speaker and president of the Senate. Only Shuyler and Garner did that. You may mock me but I will only say Palin in reply.