MAC MAKES HIS MOVE – AT 11:30 P.M. ET:  Fresh from a vote that almost made him speaker of the House...a Democratic-majority House...Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is asserting his position as a key spokesman for the Republican Party.  This is what we like to hear.  From Fox:

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Sunday took House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her party to task for being more concerned with a far-left agenda rather than focusing on the needs of the American people.

McCarthy’s fiery speech came after Pelosi was re-elected as House speaker by Democrats, who retain the majority in the House with the slimmest margin in 20 years.

Stopping short of mentioning Democrats by name, McCarthy called out House lawmakers for neglecting their responsibilities over the last two years "during some of the most challenging times for our country."

"When the need for more pandemic relief was obvious, did we deliver a timely lifeline America needed? Or did we say nothing was better than something until politics dictated our actions?"

McCarthy said. "When unrest spilled into the cities and communities across the country, did we deliver safety that Americans wanted or did we let calls to defund the police, intimidate us from protecting life, liberty and property?"

To this, multiple House members could be heard booing, while others cheered the House minority leader on.

McCarthy then contrasted the Republican platform with the Democrat one, saying that his party has actually listened to its constituents and they have made a "commitment to America to restore our way of life, rebuild the economy and renew the American dream."

That no Republican incumbent was defeated in the November election showed that voters have "endorsed common sense, not conflict," McCarthy said. 

COMMENT:  Good for Mac!  We need fighters right now, not establishment Republicans like the kind we have here in New York, who fight only when they get off the golf course.  McCarthy is a pretty careful guy.  He didn't deliver his speech without a real purpose, and that purpose was to take his place at the head of the line, leading his troops into battle.

January 3, 2021