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Kevin McCarthy’s Last Minute Deals To Earn Speaker Votes
Kevin is increasingly desperate for votes he doesn’t have.
3 min readJan 2, 2023
The following are last-minute promises Kevin McCarthy agreed to in order to avoid the political embarrassment of losing the vote for Speaker of the House a 16th time:
- Lauren Boebert can start bringing a gun onto the House floor every day
- All Freedom Caucus members get to kick Kevin McCarthy in the testicles every first Tuesday of the month
- The House will show off Hunter Biden’s dick pics on C-SPAN on day 1
- Jewish representatives in the Republican caucus have to start wearing a yellow star on their suit jackets
- The House will institute a new rule that all members have to say “merry Christmas,” and, if they say “happy holidays,” they will be fined $100
- The House will start hosting monthly tours of the Capitol for Proud Boys and Oath Keepers
- Every morning the House will formally apologize to billionaires and corporations for taxing them
- The bathroom signs that say “Employees must wash their hands” will all be removed because they’re an infringement on Constitutional rights
- Paintings of Jesus in any House member’s office must all…