Kevin McCarthy’s win didn’t come without some drama from both sides but thankfully, the House has finally come to an agreement and the real work can now begin. The weirdo media nuts have a new take on the battle to decide the speaker of the House and claim that the GOP helped China discredit democracy.
Nicolle Wallace of Deadline: White House set the tone during an interview with Rep. Adam Schiff, inquiring “What image of the country has been transmitted to our adversaries this week? What do they observe as our democracy‘s weaknesses and vulnerabilities?” in reference to the chaos surrounding the Speakership vote.
This question was in response to the suggestion that the drama only helped the Chinese government in its attempt to discredit democracy and advance dictatorship.
It was a BS take from a BS network— But wait, the new narrative didn’t end there. CNN chimed in claiming the exact same thing. Coincidence? Of course not. They’re practically the same company.
Transcript
NICOLLE WALLACE: What image of the country has been transmitted to sort of the streams of information and intelligence being gobbled up by our adversaries this week? What do they see as their ongoing vulnerabilities and weaknesses in our democracy?
ADAM SCHIFF: Well, Nicole, I can only imagine, because one of the outcomes of this lack of a speakership, lack of being sworn in is members can’t go get classified briefings on exactly that.
But given what we’ve seen in the past, given what we know of how foreign powers exploited our tragedy of January 6th, how they pushed out those images, how they used it, how China, for example, used it to make the case that democracy doesn’t work, that it’s brittle, that it can’t adapt to the times, that the China model was somehow to be preferred. China model is dictatorship. It’s totalitarianism. That is not an alternative.
But the more that our adversaries can showcase American governmental dysfunction, the harder it is for us to promote democracy abroad, when we are exhibiting such shortcomings at home.
And, you know, it’s been moving for all of us to be at the Capitol today on the anniversary of January 6th. It has remind me of one of the very strong emotions that I had that day, which was in thinking about how the rest of the world was viewing America and our democracy and how much the very idea of our country was being lost and I felt that way again today and not just because it was the anniversary, but because of what I was witnessing on the house floor.
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CNN Tonight
1/6/2023
11:31 PM ET
DAVID AXELROD: This is why they wanted to adjourn. I just want to point out that this afternoon, Kevin McCarthy stood before the cameras and he said –
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AXELROD: He said, we — I think what we’ve seen this week is the Republican caucus learned how to govern, learn how to govern.
DANA BASH: Right.
AXELROD: And now we have this.
DAVID URBAN: You know the headline in China is today right now? Democracy, not so great. That’s what the headline around the globe is right now.
BURNETT: Certainly, you know, all this — it’s sort of spinning, that they were saying, oh, this shows, Jake, how things — this isn’t bad, this isn’t chaos, this is democracy and action, this is good. Now, here we are. This is not good.