{"id":6411,"date":"2023-11-13T08:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T14:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6411"},"modified":"2025-01-01T19:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T01:59:18","slug":"classmates-who-voted-kevin-mccarthy-most-likely-to-succeed-express-chagrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/13\/classmates-who-voted-kevin-mccarthy-most-likely-to-succeed-express-chagrin\/","title":{"rendered":"Classmates Who Voted Kevin McCarthy \u201cMost Likely to Succeed\u201d Express Chagrin"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD\u2013 Members of Congressman Kevin McCarthy\u2019s high school class expressed profound remorse and chagrin over their senior year decision to label him \u201cMost Likely to Succeed\u201d after the California Republican was ousted from his position as Speaker of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, October 3rd after just nine months on the job.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In a statement published shortly after the vote, more than two hundred members of the Bakersfield High School Class of 1983 wrote that the dramatic turn of events had left them with \u201cegg all over\u201d their faces. \u201cWhen we gave Kevin the title of \u2018Most Likely to Succeed,\u2019 we had high hopes. We thought he could be a senator or a football coach, or even a seafood-based fast food mogul. When he got elected Speaker of the House, we patted ourselves on the back. \u2018Not too shabby,\u2019 we thought to ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cOh how times have changed. To have put your faith in the success of one man, to have made him the avatar for your collective aspirations, and then to watch his political career fall to pieces at the hands of some slick-haired motherfucker from Florida named Matt is one of the most spiritually crushing ordeals a person can experience. It’s akin to watching your favorite son go to prison for indecent exposure.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt’s worth noting that this is the first time the House has ever voted to remove a speaker. Kevin is literally pioneering new ways of failure. There’s no hiding from the fact that we got this 100% wrong, and we will be doing a lot of soul-searching in the months ahead.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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The alumni added in a postscript that Kevin could regain their trust, but it would require “something big” such as “winning the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay” or “producing a chalice filled with the waters from the Fountain of Youth.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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When asked for a response, McCarthy said, “I’m really sorry, guys.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a statement published shortly after the vote, more than two hundred members of the Bakersfield High School Class of 1983 wrote that the dramatic turn of events had left them with \u201cegg all over\u201d their faces. \u201cWhen we gave Kevin the title of \u2018Most Likely to Succeed,\u2019 we had high hopes. We thought he could be a senator or a football coach, or even a seafood-based fast food mogul. When he got elected Speaker of the House, we patted ourselves on the back. \u2018Not too shabby,\u2019 we thought to ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2089,"featured_media":6412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6413,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411\/revisions\/6413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}