Forward Kentucky: The puppet now running the House
![left) Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen; (right) Kevin McCarthy and Matt Gaetz (McCarthy-Bergen photo [public domain] via Wikimedia Commons; faces in derived photo on the right taken from official photos [publc domain])](/sites/default/files/styles/image_media_xxl_2x/public/2023-01/twomccarthys.jpg.webp?itok=xHCfHTPt)
Comer: “When you talk about what the Biden family was doing, I’m not sure it was illegal.”
By BERRY CRAIG
Kevin McCarthy is the new Charlie McCarthy.
Unless you’re 50ish or older, you might not know Charlie was famous ventriloquist Edgar Bergen’s beloved dummy. Speaker McCarthy is all set to play the same role for the House Coup Caucus, which the Lincoln Project’s Tara Setmayer described on MSNBC as “democracy deniers” and enablers of “the malignancy of Trumpism.”
To get the gavel, McCarthy evidently caved on most, if not all, of their demands, including one that makes it easier to dump a speaker.