Remember Richard Harris in the egregious 1970 movie, A Man Called Horse, in which Harris is a British nobleman who joins the Sioux, but not before he completes initiation rites that include being hung up by the thorax with pins? Next week, McCarthy will undergo something similar—except, unlike Harris' John Morgan, McCarthy also will have to listen to Marjorie Taylor Greene. The arrangement is blatantly unconstitutional as a violation of the Eighth Amendment. It's cruel and she's unusual.To paraphrase Dean Wormer from another movie, "Craven, ambitious, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."—Charlie Pierce in Esquire on the travails of putative House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
03 January 2023
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