Posted on 10/05/2023 9:27:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) is getting bad reviews.
“Gaetz has very few friends in the conference,” said his fellow Florida Rep. Carlos Gimenez. “Gaetz maybe has a couple of friends in the delegation. But I’m not one of them.” And Gimenez spoke for many other House Republicans.
Gaetz led a successful and unprecedented effort to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California), and there appears to be a broad consensus that Gaetz has really stepped in it now, and made things even worse than they were before. Democrats, who voted unanimously for Gaetz’s motion to remove McCarthy as speaker of the House, are chortling over Republican confusion and disunity. Meanwhile, even patriots who are sympathetic to Gaetz are saying that he has jeopardized the Republicans’ slim majority in the House, risked handing the leadership over to the Democrats, and proceeded without a plan: Gaetz himself is not a candidate, and no one seems to be in agreement over who should follow McCarthy into the speaker’s chair.
When acting speaker Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) took the chair, he banged the gavel down with petulant force, signaling a distaste for the whole affair that he never manifested as millions of unvetted migrants entered the country, or as the national debt and inflation skyrocketed, or as the Biden regime weaponized the “justice” system to persecute its political enemies. McHenry made it clear: what angered him was not any of that, but the removal of his friend McCarthy.
So the whole thing was a disaster, no? Gaetz should have left well enough alone, right? Wrong. In fact, Gaetz has won a rare victory for the American people, and should be congratulated and thanked accordingly.
The removal of McCarthy from the speaker’s chair was historic not only because it has never happened before. For the first time ever, the American people struck back against the ruling oligarchy, and made it clear that they would no longer stand for the politics-as-usual that has brought the nation to this period of deep crisis.
For years now, indeed, for decades now, and with very few exceptions, the far Left has set political policy in the United States. On occasion, patriots have refused to go along, but almost every time their opposition collapsed into capitulation, with a few minor details adjusted but the larger principles of the Left’s initiative left intact.
This capitulationism has been the hallmark of the Republican Party since at very least 1952, when Dwight D. Eisenhower, the first Republican to be elected to the presidency in twenty years, made it clear that he would not make any effort to roll back Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, which set the nation on the road to socialism and the ever-expanding federal government that grows more intrusive and authoritarian by the day. Instead, Republicans would stand for the march toward socialism to be pursued a bit more slowly, a bit more responsibly, a bit more carefully, and that was all.
Seventy years later, McCarthy pushed four frivolous, big government spending bills through the House, and according to CBS News, “said a continuing resolution would be needed to avoid a shutdown.” Gaetz responded: “A vote for a continuing resolution is a vote to continue the Green New Deal, a vote to continue inflationary spending, and the most troubling of fashions, a vote for a continuing resolution is a vote to continue the election interference of Jack Smith. We told you how to use the power of the purse: individual, single-subject spending bills that would allow us to have specific review, programmatic analysis and that would allow us to zero out the salaries of the bureaucrats who have broken bad, targeted President Trump or cut sweetheart deals for Hunter Biden.”
Gaetz added: “Speaker McCarthy made an agreement with House conservatives in January. And, since then, he has been in brazen, repeated material breach of that agreement.” And so now he is no longer speaker of the House. McCarthy apparently agreed in January not to join the Democrats in continued out-of-control government spending, and to stand aggressively against the Democrats’ weaponization and politicization of the justice system. Instead, he gave us more of the same: government of the Washington establishment, by the Washington establishment, and for the Washington establishment.
McCarthy’s ouster is a signal to whichever Republican may follow him as speaker: patriotic Americans are fed up. The time for conciliation, compromise, and appeasement are over. The enemies of America have captured the Democrat Party and made the Republicans into controlled opposition. It’s time for some genuine opposition to the sinister agenda of these corruptocrats. Matt Gaetz has made a mighty effort to restore the voice of the American people in their own government. For that, every American owes him a debt of gratitude.
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Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 26 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest books are The Critical Qur’an and The Sumter Gambit. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
“Gaetz is the dog that caught the car.”
That’s yesterday’s GOPe talking point. We’ve all heard it 1000 times already. Go check your inbox for the new talking points.
its Mc Cathy and the rinos that teamed up with the rats. Thats why its called the uniparty.
You seem to have a liberal mindset on most of your comments. We are at war with people in our own party who has joined the lib woke democrat socialist viewpoints. Until we get it back to conservatism, there will be no border wall, no justice for J6, no separate bathrooms for the TWO sexes........
The stupidity of the Trump cult summed up perfectly in one post. Congrats!
They should all be forced to sit in a room with their eyes forced opened and have to watch this for days:
https://youtu.be/sRi9rEpc4JI?si=ZjcNBhlB-13J23oL
No. Gaetz is a hero for forcing Kevin McRmoneyBushLuntz out.
FBI is working on a way to get him at this very moment.
Meanwhile, thefactor wets his pants.
Again.
Gatz is a fool he had only 8 GOP votes and needed left wing, progressive homosexual loving dimwits to remove the speaker, I don’t call that a win, the democrats are laughing
And McCarthy had the balls to suggest he was fired “because he did the right thing” and “he will always be brave enough to do it.”
That crock of sh*t has been peddled so often it really pisses me off. Compromising with democrats (giving them everything they want) is NOT ‘the right thing’
That’s the kind of thing we are hoping to STOP!
Spoken like a true Uniparty operative. That BS line of “at least he’s not Uniparty (D), he’s one of our Uniparty (R) Judases” just doesn’t work with conservatives any longer.
McCarthy deserved to get booted. He was a failure.
I am not looking forward to the democrats controlling both houses of congress, the reelection of Biden, and Biden’s DOJ allowing the assassination of SCOTUS judges and controlling that branch too. It will be a glorious revolution. I wish I was being facetious but we already saw the DOJ allow SCOTUS threats and Gaetz has secured the democrats’ victory in vulnerable districts.
You’re not a Conservative.
I was right. You are Nancy.
Again, we hear from Mr. Clueless. Your Uniparty fellow travelers’ only concern about conservatism is defeating it. Check out my tagline. Who knows, with a lot of work that might be an achievable goal for even you.
Many of Freerepublic’s posters are trolls now. I’m convinced of it. Some of them paid, I’m guessing. They’re here to muddy the waters and demoralize us. The first comment on many threads now is usually made by a troll. That’s my opinion.
Until Meatball drops out the trolls will be here.
Nope. Gaetz teamed up with the democrats for the vote to ditch the speaker. He needed to Democrats. They own him and you.
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