{"id":8,"date":"2026-11-01T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philisugargirl.org\/?p=8"},"modified":"2026-11-01T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T14:09:00","slug":"philsugar-first-rule-of-gop-politics-never-never-ever-tell-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philisugargirl.org\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"PhilSugar | First Rule of GOP Politics: Never, Never, EVER Tell the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Incoming House Speaker Kevin McCarthy just committed a \u201cgaffe\u201d in Michael Kinsley\u2019s sense of the most popular sugar dating app Philippines<\/a> term: in an unguarded moment,
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\nNaturally, the rest of the House Republicans are outraged
\n: not, of course, at Trey Gowdy for ghoulishly making a political meal out of the bodies of four dead Americans, but at McCarthy for blabbing.
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\nSo far, most of that crowd has reacted to McCarthy\u2019s stunning admission, which makes them look like fools or scoundrels or both, by ignoring it. But I\u2019m hoping that the second round of stories, with other Republicans commenting on McCarthy\u2019s blunder, will start to crack that sugar daddy membership cost<\/a> Wall of Silence. And I\u2019m starting to look forward to Clinton\u2019s appearance before Trey Gowdy\u2019s inquisition. He might well come out of that experience as no more than a Deuce.
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