Kevin McCarthy and the reason why he should not be Speaker

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I read Terrierman's Daily Dose almost every day.  We both love dogs and nature.
He is a die-hard liberal so we do not agree on that aspect but today?  Hits it out of the park:

Death By Feral Chihuahua
Congressman Kevin McCarthy wants to be Majority Leader of the US House of Representatives, but there’s just one problem:  he’s not a leader.

McCarthy wants to negotiate his way to leadership.  

He’s trying to compromise, shade, fold, and wheedle his way into the Top Dog position.

It’s not going well.

To be fair, Kevin McCarthy suffers from a common foible.  The notion of "leadership" runs riot in a lot of people's heads.

In the modern world, too many people eschew leadership. They want everyone to be equals, and they want every little thing to be talked out and negotiated.

What does that mean for children or the infantile Republican caucus?

It means if you tell your teenager they need to be home by 10 pm, but move the hour to 11 pm after a half hour of argument, you are teaching your child that arguing works -- and you are sure to get a lot more of it!

The same goes for QAnon crazies.

Kevin McCarthy has folded to lunatic minority demands and is perplexed that he has *lost* ground and not gained it.  

But think about it:  he’s been *rewarding* bad behavior.

He’s “click and treated* every chaos agent, attention-whore, and fuck-wit in his party.  

More at the site but I just love the last line here - "click and treat" is a very good method for dog training when the dog is wanting to learn and is working with you.  A small hand clicker provides an immediate signal regardless of where the dog is and the dog knows that the click means that a treat is forthcoming soon.

This is exactly what has happened with McCarthy during his years in the House - he bends over and concedes to the other side with the vague hopes that he might get them to do the same for something that he is interested in. History has proven otherwise but he continues to do so.

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