Murphy & McCarthy, the ‘bully boys’
Some guys don’t seem to ever outgrow their bad habits from junior high. Cases in point: disgraced former House speaker Kevin McCarthy and disgraceful current congressman Greg Murphy.
Back in October, Murphy was caught on camera apparently lowering his shoulder and bumping congressman Matt Gaetz football-style from behind in an intentional, aggressive manner. Gaetz had just orchestrated the removal of Kevin McCarthy from the speaker’s dais.
A McCarthy-Murphy alliance would have seemed unthinkable a few years back when Murphy first ran for North Carolina’s Third District seat in Congress. Murphy, then a state legislator, had a moderate-to-liberal voting record. On the stump, Murphy claimed he had been ‘born-again’ as a conservative. He carried Barry Goldwater’s epic tome ‘Conscience of a Conservative’ as a prop everywhere he went.
In his primary run-off with fellow Republican Joan Perry, McCarthy and Elise Stefanik 
worked hard for Perry and against Murphy. They hosted DC fundraisers for Perry where they ridiculed and mocked Murphy. In response, Murphy campaigned with Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan — giving voters the distinct impression he would be with those guys from DAY ONE once he got to Washington.
Murphy won the runoff and general — thanks in BIG PART to the work of Meadows and Jordan. As thanks to those guys, Murphy ran over to McCarthy as fast as he could – not even looking back.
Fast forward to today, where Kevin McCarthy appears to have emulated Murphy from October. It all got witnessed by — of all people — an NPR reporter:
Adding to all this, congressman Gaetz has now filed an ethics complaint against McCarthy over the Burchett incident.
Okay. So, you take the story about Patrick McHenry sabotaging the votes for speaker after McCarthy’s removal and add that to these Murphy and McCarthy episodes, you really have to wonder if junior high is really all that different from serving in the United States Congress.
(Murphy better pray Gaetz doesn’t seek the assistance of Nancy Mace on this matter.)
Call his office. It’s worse. Terrible customer service.
No more MM, We have a great new candidate up in the 1st. Met her at the Currituck GOP Meeting. Laurie Buckhout is going to be a great Congressperson.
Better check her relationship with the 1st district Chairman before making a prediction like that.
I’m VOTING anyone over Murphy.
And, at this point, with Johnson supporting another CR to fund this travesty of govt, waste, border, debt, etc, I have NO confidence in any republican in DC and will therefore not be voting any republican on capitol hill. And for any that come with this nonsense of dem support, not voting dem either, BUT show me, tell me the difference? With our NC contingent in house or senate, what is the diff?
There’s NO representation, period. NOBODY supports the open border, crime, criminals, murderers, rapists, drugs, gangs, etc crossing over the border in the millions. THose millions will be voting very, very soon to CANCEL our votes completely. Already destroying our communities, schools, housing, hospitals, social services. welfare systems.
I’m done with any republican party telling me HOW CONSERVATIVE their candidates are. Johnson, was THE conservative; yet he has enough dems to support the CR.
I told everyone that Murphy was not a conservative. Hell, his voting record in the NCGA was proof. Murphy has big Pharma and hospital money. He is loaded, it’s going to be difficult to go up against this bankroll, yet not impossible.
I will no longer be voting for the less evil because evil is still evil. This goes for locals all the way up to the Feds. Tired of feeding egos. Tired of feeding the RINOS.
No representation!
Dr Murphy was elected in the district that had been so well represented by Walter B Jones for many years. The legacy of Walter B. Jones was that of excellence in representing the folks in Eastern North Carolina. Dr Murphy is NOT that person. One just has to look at the way Murphy votes… he and the greatest majority of NC Congressional Representatives often vote with the Democrats. Had we, the voters, wanted a Democrat representing us, we would have elected one. Unfortunately, our “Republican representatives” rarely vote in a manner the voters would approve of. The lack of communication between the actions of the “ representatives” and the voters ensures that the “ representatives” have no accountability to those who vote for them. They all need to be primaried and replaced with folks who are not just holding office to line their pockets. The readers of “The Daily Haymaker” are truly blessed to be part of the “truth seeking voters” constituency. Please be sure the word gets out about the shenanigans of such as Dr Murphy. He is an embarrassment.