It's not just the drool-besotted cult followers who are going to have to disappear for the GOP to begin to restore itself, it's also the cowardly liars like Kevin McCarthy

  This AP story speaks volumes about the state of the Republican party's spiritual health:

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told fellow GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign, according to audio posted by The New York Times and aired on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show .

In the recording of a Jan. 10 House Republican Leadership call posted by the Times Thursday night, McCarthy is heard discussing the Democratic effort to remove Trump from office and saying he would tell Trump, “I think it will pass and it would be my recommendation he should resign.”

McCarthy and Mark Bednar then proceeded to tell a stinking rotten lie about it:

Earlier Thursday, after the Times published its initial story describing the conversation, McCarthy released a statement calling it “totally false and wrong.” His spokesman, Mark Bednar, had told the paper, “McCarthy never said he’d call Trump to say he should resign.”

Bednar did not immediately respond to questions late Thursday night after the audio’s release. Representatives for Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the tape.

 

The next paragraph speculates on what this does to McCarthy's political prospects, which, frankly, I don't give a flying fuck about:

The audio threatens to badly damage the relationship between McCarthy and Trump, who remains the most popular figure in the Republican Party, despite his role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection and his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election. And it could threaten McCarthy’s standing with House Republicans aligned with Trump, whose support he will need for votes to become House speaker next year.

How about what it does to the post-American people's confidence in the integrity of one of the nation's two major political parties?

Look, as you can tell from the previous post here at LITD (about you-will-get-your-mind-right-ism), I am nobody's idea of a leftist. Which makes the current state of things all the more distressing. Yes, polls show that Dems face a wipeout of "biblical proportions" this fall, but what the hell good does that do if we're saddled by this bunch of cowards, nuts and sycophants?