From WSJopinion: Kevin McCarthy was willing to weaken the speakership to win it. If he’d spent more time working with rational lawmakers to get like-minded candidates elected, he wouldn’t have ended up in this position, writes WillHurd.
Journal Editorial Report: Gridlock is likely—for worse, or maybe better. Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyIt’s hard not to see the predicament of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as a tragedy. A man who was heralded 15 years ago as a new brand of conservative leader, who set records for fundraising, and who helped get candidates elected all over the country now has had to suffer through successive failures to become speaker of the House.
Mr. McCarthy was a co-author, with future Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, of “Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders” , which criticized earlier Republicans, particularly on matters of the federal budget. They wrote that Republicans were “arrogant and out of touch” and suffered “failures from high-profile ethics lapses to the inability to rein in spending or even slow the growth of government.
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