*Everything Trump Touches Dies…
Siri, please show me what a Bond villain would tweet as president. -> https://t.co/wdwu2iYbbR
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) January 9, 2019
McCarthy led the strategy of embracing Trump that cut the # of CA GOP Reps in half & left them with smallest share of the state Congressional delegation since 1883. But there are always a few more seats he could lose, so why change course now? https://t.co/ppCezVP3cE
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) January 9, 2019
SFGate reports:
Republican U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is defending President Donald Trump’s comments that California isn’t doing a good enough job managing its forests.
McCarthy, of California, says he agrees with Trump that better forest management could mitigate California’s deadly and destructive wildfires. He’s commenting in response to a Trump tweet threatening to withhold California’s federal disaster funding…
Fire scientists say its climate change, not forest management, that’s the chief cause of more destructive wildfires.
Democratic U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, also of California, had challenged McCarthy to condemn Trump’s comments.
Repub Stupidity Open Thread: Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Latest Victim of ETTD*Post + Comments (119)