Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson praised House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Thursday for dropping out of the race for speaker.
“I say kudos to Rep. McCarthy for putting others before himself,” Carson told anchor Wolf Blitzer during a CNN appearance.
“This is not something that we see very often in Washington and I hope it’s a trait that will be emulated by others as time goes on because, you know, we have a lot of problems that have to be solved and none of us should put ourselves ahead of those problems,” Carson said.
When pressed, Carson didn’t offer any preferences for who should run. When Blitzer gave him specific names, Carson said he liked Rep Daniel Webster (R-FL), Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). (Ryan said again on Thursday he did not want to be Speaker.)
“This will open the process and even more names will be thrown in and that they will all have an opportunity to express their vision for the country and how their leadership style will be manifested and then allow the members to vote,” Carson told CNN.
Oh the exquisite irony. Self awareness is not one of Doc. Carson’s strong points.
“This will open the process and even more names will be thrown in and that they will all have an opportunity to express their vision for the country and how their leadership style will be manifested and then allow the members to vote,”
This is the new thing now. The right is trying to transform the Speaker into some sort of “anti President”. He/she isn’t. The Speaker is a do-er, not a visionary. The Speaker doesn’t give speeches to the population at large, or even their caucus as much as they knock heads in back rooms, line up votes and put legislation on the floor that will actually pass. Its a person who gets shit done.
Which brings up the thing that really scares me about Carson. The man is so completely clueless, that he just absorbs any crazy notion he hears floating around and repeats it to try and sound like he knows what is going on. The people that fall for Onion gags on a subject matter they don’t know anything? That is Carson,and the subject matter is pretty much any and everything outside of his narrow understanding of brain surgery.
Yes, please just quit, everyone.
Scott Walker strikes again.
Cue the WeeWee song…
Wait, I was under the impression that putting the needs of others before ones own radical self interest is tantamount to fascism or communism or tyranny or something or other. It’s a slippery slope from putting others before yourself and actually working towards the common good, which we all know should never be the role of anyone in the government or anywhere else. IDK, Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand can probably explain it better than I ever will.