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No tears for McCarthy’s unhappy rein

No tears for McCarthy’s unhappy rein

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Gary A Schlueter
Oct 04, 2023
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    When I heard that Kevin McCarthy had been ousted from his perch as Speaker of the House, it brought an Ernest Hemingway story to mind, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” But in my mind I re-wrote the title as ‘The Short Unhappy Rein of Kevin McCarthy’.

    In the Hemingway story Francis Macomber reaches manhood on a lion hunt in Africa and j…

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