And let's not forget that if Boenher bails, that would inevitable move NcCarthy up.
So we'd go from having a perpetual "cryer" as Speaker, to s perpetual "grinner." McCarthy's a lightweight. Period. He lacks the intellect, the vision, to be majority leader, let alone Speaker.
But he can be stopped. At least one principled House conservative has to step up to the plate and run..
There are several conservative affinity "blocks" in the House that in one form or another, or combined, have more than the votes needed to elect a movement conservative as Majority Leader, and then the next Speaker.
1. The conservative Republican Study group has a majority of GOP House members.
2. The class of 2010..60+..were nearly all elected with strong Tea Party support.
3. The RED State caucus..those GOP representatives from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgis, South Carolina, and Florida..WAKE UP..this is where the strength of the conservative movement in the GOP is.
Or, to put it another,AND CRASS way:
WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' MAJORITY LEADER FROM CALIFORNIA!
I felt the need to rant this morning...
If it’s possible, McCarthy could be an even bigger F.U. to the base than Cantor. Outrageous and unacceptable.
They learned alright. They learned that they have to stomp out dissent. Imperial Walkers approaching!
” - - - - Republican voters are not happy with the GOP’s establishment position on amnesty for illegal immigrants and other hot-button issues fracturing the party. - - - “
The above quote, from another (today) FR thread article by author Adrianna Cohen describes the disconnection between the GOP-E leadership and that of the Republican voter.
To her credit, she did not rely on the usual defensive Liberal smokescreen tactic of using Liberal Media Polls based on OPINIONS to magically transform her case into a beyond question “Scientific” Case.
What Ms. Cohen and much of the rest of the Right and Left Stream Media are mis-reporting is that there is a “fracture” in the Republican Party.
The basic assumption of these journalists is that a political party must be monolithic, united, and speak “with one voice.”
Any deviation of opinion within the party is viewed as a danger that must be quickly healed before it becomes, (gasp!), a fracture.
The current Democrat Party is a perfect end example of what today’s Journalists view as normal political party behavior.
The reality is that The GOP-E Leadership has chosen to arrogantly ISOLATE itself from its voters.
The triple Presidential losses of Dole, McCain and Romney has curiously served to strengthen the GOP-E Leadership’s resolve to isolate themselves even more from their former and present Republican voters.
While the GOP-E Leadership has been busy appeasing, caving-in and otherwise “marching to the drum beat” of Obama, Reid, Holder and Pelosi, they have marched themselves into ever-increasing isolation.
After 4 + years of handing Obama a blank check, ignoring all illegal bypasses of Congress and caving-in to whatever Obama, Reid, Holder and Pelosi demand, the GOP-E Leadership has effectively isolated itself in the eyes of the average Republican Voter.
unless he is Tom McClintock... Congressman representing California's 4th District... as conservative as can be... :)
The Establishment is doubling down, intent on teaching the serfs a lesson. Of course they learned nothing.
Cantor lost the forest for the trees because he was more focused on the Washington "process" than on first principles.
McCarthy is the go-to candidate because he is the majority whip and is therefore "next in line" for majority leader.
Process over principle again.
McCarthy can’t be primaried. That’s why he’s there.
The check’s got to be paid. You saw Cantor’s donor list. You think Boehner’s is any different.
They are going to ram this home, even if it wrecks the party.
The check’s got to be paid.
Actually it’s us who needs to wake up.
The GOPe left it’s base a long time ago. At this point, anyone that still thinks there’s any hope for the party is delusional, and I daresay it’s our patriotic duty at this point to leave the Republican party in droves. They certainly are not interested in having an (R) in the WH anytime soon. Sobeit.
NO! He is one of them. McCarthy wears the Scarlet Letter of R for RINO!
See tag line.
See the light yet?
California? That state hasn’t voted Republician in decades.
Hell no to McCarthy.
You need a fight?
Well kids, here it is. Boehner and the RINO establishment clearly ARE a conspiracy, not a theory. Let's take a week off from the CCP. I know Sheriff Joe won't mind.
The WSJ supported Hensarling as their first choice, followed by Ryan, this morning.
Hensarling has just dropped out. Ryan doesn’t seem to be on the short list (he’s not very personable, so probably the leadership didn’t even consider him).
Why do they want to pick somebody whose positions are exactly like those of the guy who just got dumped?
I don't know if he's Majority Leader material or not, but Tom McClintock is from California and he's pretty conservative.
Within the near future if the GOP continues on its current course, they will be a non entity, and a powerful new party will evolve.