Kevin McCarthy trashes the Freedom Caucus he empowered

Ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy resigned his seat in Congress at the end of December, declaring in a Wall Street Journal column that he was leaving “to serve America in new ways. I know my work is only getting started.” His service to America now seems to center on trashing the extremists he once loved.

Now McCarthy has decided to revile the Freedom Caucus, blaming everything that’s wrong with the House on them. McCarthy went on Fox Business Monday and was asked by host Maria Bartoromo why the House once again decided to “kick the can down the road” and do another short-term funding bill. “You really should be asking the Freedom Caucus. They are the ones who have stopped the Republicans from being able to govern,” McCarthy said.

Sure, now he’ll admit the maniacs are why nothing is getting done. That’s after he courted them to support his speaker bid right after the November 2022 midterms when the Republicans won the House, a meeting that didn’t go so well for McCarthy; one member emerged saying he was “99% confident” the group would challenge McCarthy with one of their own. So McCarthy just kept on wooing them, giving the plum organizing seats ahead of the new Congress and praising them: “The strength of our conference is the talent of everybody and how do we utilize everybody’s talent.”