Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

Kevin McCarthy is a prostitute for the special interests, much like Mitch McConnell and the GOP leaders in the NC General Assembly. That is the basic problem with McCarthy. He is one of the biggest alligators in the swmap. It was appalling that Trump backed him. The last time McCarthy made a stab at Speaker, he dropped out due to his controversial relationships with Renee Ellmers, an NC Congresswoman, and Frank Luntz, a big time lobbyist, alleged pollster, and political operator. With Ellmers, it was simply an affair with a married colleague which was very well known in Congress. With Luntz, McCarthy was his roommate, which was odd since super lobbyist Luntz who worked for big names in Big Pharma and Big Tech clearly made enough money he did not have to bunk in with womebody to hold expenses down. The relationship between McCarthy and Luntz was a lot deeper than just being roommates. Some have suggested it was also sexual, but there is no evidence of that. At minimum Luntz was a scummy dude who had way too much influence on McCarthy. After that first round, McCarthy seemed to cut his ties with Luntz, but in the last couple of months, Luntx has suddenly come back in the picture and that is very disturbing. McCarthy even made Luntz a speaker at a recent GOP House caucus meeting to advise on messaging.

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The conservatives have gotten concessions from McCarthy to weaken the power of the Speaker within the caucus and give the rank and file more control. That badly needs to be done in the NC General Assembly as well since Berger and Moore are the same breed of snake as McConnell and McCarthy. Will those concessions be enough to keep McCarthy from betraying the GOP base like McConnell does regularly? Only time will tell.

Commented: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 7:35 am By: John Steed

The big spenders used an extremely creative, indeed Orwellian, definition of "infrastructure" for much of what was crammed into that bill. It should have been called an "inflation" bill instead, because that is more accurate to what it really was, and McCOnnell has his dirty fingerprints all over it.

McConnell organizing 60 votes for the fake "infrastructure" bill allowed Biden to keep his "reconciliation" slot open to use for the even worse "inflation reduction" bill which was actually an inflation PROduction bill.

Mitch McConnell seems to be the second coming of Benedict Arnold. The REAL Republicans were the ones who voted against both of these monstrosities and the omnibus.

Commented: Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 5:00 pm By: John Steed

While there are some common problems between the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) and the non-mRNA vaccines, the problems seem to be of a much greater order of mahnitude in the mRNA shots. Those are the ones that a statewide grand jury, approved by the state Supreme Court, is investigating. Shoddy manufacturing processes seems a common problem with all the vaccines.

Commented: Saturday, December 31st, 2022 @ 1:45 pm By: John Steed

Agreed. The sooner they start making some headway, the more that can be accomplished. Waiting is often not a wise strategy in politics, but their first moves need to be well thought out and be things that other members are going to be afraid to vote against. Too many of the old members seem to think they work for the superintendant instead of the other way round.

Commented: Wednesday, December 28th, 2022 @ 3:57 pm By: John Steed

What a baldfaced LIAR Tillis is. In fact, Tillis was the only Republican to help Schumer obliterate the biggest obstacle to passing the omnibus. dailyhaymaker.com

Commented: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 9:20 am By: John Steed

If these know-nothings who posture as English professors would talk to educators in majority black English speaking countries in the Caribbean and Africa they would find that they value proper English. These idiots do not belong in our universities as professors.

Commented: Tuesday, December 20th, 2022 @ 8:08 pm By: John Steed

That's okay. Now we have a real Supreme Court in North Carolina. They will undo this partisan crap of the radical left Democrat court, on ALL maps - Congress, Senate, and House.

Commented: Sunday, December 18th, 2022 @ 7:51 am By: John Steed

Romney, like McConnell, is a transpartisan. That is like a transgender. They are one thing on paper but behave as the other. While they are nominally Republican, Romney, Murkowski, McConnell, and some others are really Democrats in Drag.

Commented: Friday, December 16th, 2022 @ 7:17 am By: John Steed

Let's be realistic. The SCOTUS failed in its own duty to hear election law cases involving the 2020 election. Why should anyone think they will take any other posture now?

Commented: Thursday, December 8th, 2022 @ 4:38 pm By: John Steed

Google is very, very "woke", an enemy of free speech and privacy. No conservative should use any of its "services" all of which collect your data and sell it. Its search engine is stacked and one-sided. Better to use BraveSearch, DuckDuckGo or even Bing, all of which search engines are more honest, and BraveSearch (and to some extent DuckDuckGo) also offers privacy. Never use Google's Gmail. Protonmail is a privacy and free speech oriented option.

Commented: Friday, December 2nd, 2022 @ 8:32 pm By: John Steed

Doesn't Maricopa County use Dominion voting machines? Those crooked things ought to be outlawed everywhere.

Commented: Sunday, November 27th, 2022 @ 7:18 pm By: John Steed

Kevin McCarthy, like Mitch McConnell has funded establsihment RINO GOP candidates over conservatives in primaries for years. This is not the first rodeo for either, and that is one of the big reasons that neither should be in a leadership position.

One very close to home was McCarthy pumping several million dollars into the campaign of leftie RINO Sandy Roberson for NC First District Congress against conservative Sandy Smith, who won the nominiation in spite of McCarthy. That included half a million dollars for a brutal series of personal attack ads on Smith's personal life just before the primary. Democrat Don Davis rehashed the McCarthy ads to hold off Smith in the general election.

It is hard to tell which is the biggest dirtbag between McCarthy and McConnell, but I would probably have to give that distinction to McConnell. The massive shortcomings of McConnell and McCarthy are the big reason the midterms did not go as we wanted.

Commented: Sunday, November 20th, 2022 @ 9:46 am By: John Steed

Bad or no messaging from the McLeadership - McConnell, McCarthy, and McDaniel - are what is to blame for the election result. They should NOT be rewarded with keeping their offices, but two of them already have been. The only messaging from McConnell was to trash our Senate ticket, which was harmful. His legislative surrenders to Biden were also a hard hurdle for candidates to overcome. McConnell spent millions trashing coknservative Republican candidates in primaries and even the general election, but pulled GOP PAC money out of competitive races and even had $40 million left unspent in his PAC at the end of the campaign. McConnell did not want to be Majority Leader, he wanted to stay minority leader. Some years ago, McConnell vowed to "crush them [conservatives] everywhere" and that is exactly the way he played this campaign, to crush conservatives, NOT Democrats.

Oh, and Trump still has a decent approval rating with voters, not the miserable 7% approval rating of McConnell.

Commented: Thursday, November 17th, 2022 @ 4:16 pm By: John Steed

Doesn't the term "Threat Reduction" tell you anything? This would appear to be setting up defenses against a possible Antrax attack, which Russia is certainly capable of, not experimenting with Antrax. The dangerous "gain of function" research money is going to Red China.

Commented: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 @ 9:43 am By: John Steed

This is one time I have to disagree with Mark Levin. The issues were there for a substantial Republican gain, even if the number of opportunities in the Senate were somewhat limited. We had leadership in Washington and Raleigh that were incompetent (or worse) in the extreme, the worst offender being Mitch McConnell. McConnell and to a lesser degree McCarthy (and also Berger and Moore at the state level) failed to raise the issues and make the sharp distincitions they needed to. McConnell and McCarthy spent contributor money trashing conservatives in primaries. Sandy Smith was an example locally, as McCarthy spent half a million on particularly brutal personal attacks in the primary and four million overall against her. Imagine if that money had been deployed against liberal Democrat Don Davis instead? McConnell spent millions savaging General Don Bolduc in the New Hampshire primary and then refused to spend anything to help him in a close race in November. Our rotten leadership in Raleigh and Washington simply HAS to go.

Commented: Monday, November 14th, 2022 @ 8:50 am By: John Steed

As usual, leftie loon Tom Campbell presents the "woke" side of events. He parrots the left's talking points about Jan. 6 and the attack on Pelosi's husband (which was by an illegal alien who was a nudist activist and BLM supporter). We had a shooting into the home of a Republican congressional candidate in our own state, narrowly missing the candidate's two young daughters, but woke Campbell ignores this in his spiel.

The real threat of totalitarianism is by Campbell's own side which is at war with democratic rights like the freedom of speech. They support government power grabs on a wide range of issues. He wants to quote far left Eleanor Roosevelt on the rise of Hitler, but she ignores how Hitler concentrated power in himself, which was by ruling by decree, which is exactly what Biden is doing with his executive orders.

Commented: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 @ 9:29 am By: John Steed

The propaganda media (self styled MSM) is deliberately giving the GOP a bad name, but if one looks at the polling the last few years, much of the public is now wise to it. Indeed, a recent poll showed that a majority of Americans consider the MSM to be one of the major threats to democracy in the country. A very substantial majority recognize that they are biased and dishonest.

Commented: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022 @ 8:03 am By: John Steed