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.
“Teaming up with Democrats is the literal opposite of standing up to the “Uniparty”.”
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RINO McCarthy:
07/14/2022 Pass a $817 billion Defense spending bill without defunding military vaccine mandates - Voted Yes
05/10/2022 Fund the war in Ukraine through the end of Joe Biden’s first term with a $40 billion aid package - Voted Yes
03/09/2022 Pass a $1.5 trillion Omnibus funding Biden’s vaccine mandates - Voted Yes
02/08/2022 Bail out the Post Office and stick Medicare with the bill - Voted Yes
09/23/2021 Sign women up for the draft in the National Defense Authorization Act - Voted Yes
06/17/2021 Repeal Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq - Voted No
12/17/2019 Pass a $555 billion Christmas minibus spending spree - Voted Yes
09/19/2019 Keep spending on autopilot - Voted Yes
07/25/2019 Suspend the debt ceiling, cancel the budget caps, and increase spending by $321 billion - Voted Yes
06/03/2019 Pass a $19 billion spending bill without funding for the border crisis - Voted Yes
02/14/2019 Surrender on the border wall; empower drug cartels and human traffickers - Voted Yes
01/11/2019 Reduce accountability in Congress by making federal pay mandatory spending - Voted Yes
12/20/2018 Release dangerous criminals from federal prisons - Voted Yes
12/12/2018 Squash debate on US involvement in a foreign war - Voted Yes
12/12/2018 Vote Alert: Pass a $900 billion farm bill with socialist policies - Voted Yes
11/27/2018 Pass a bill that will lead to continued nation-building - Voted Yes
09/26/2018 Pass a promise-breaking cromnibus before the election - Voted Yes
07/25/2018 Extend a broken and almost-insolvent flood insurance program - Voted Yes
06/27/2018 Pass amnesty with citizenship for 1.8 million illegal immigrants - Voted Yes
05/18/2018 Pass a trillion-dollar crony capitalist farm bill - Voted Yes
03/22/2018 Advance a massive $1.3 trillion omnibus that funds Democrat priorities - Voted Yes
03/22/2018 Pass a massive $1.3 trillion omnibus that funds Democrat priorities - Voted Yes
02/09/2018 Vote Alert: Massive Spending, Debt Ceiling Raise, and Democrat Priorities Funded - Voted Yes
01/11/2018 Vote Alert: Stop Unconstitutional Abuse of Americans’ Privacy - Voted No
12/21/2017 Increase Spending by $81 Billion - Voted Yes
10/12/2017 Bailout Flood Insurance Program & Spend $36.5B - Voted Yes
09/08/2017 The Pelosi-Schumer-Trump debt limit deal - Voted Yes
09/06/2017 Stop Subsidizing Airline Tickets - Voted No
05/03/2017 $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill for Democrat Priorties - Voted Yes
Awesome Matt Gaetz! We need 200 more of you!
How did Gaetz and the other 7 vote on all those bills?
221-213=8. Those 8 “conservatives” now need Hakeem and company to get their way. Good luck with that.
“221-213=8. Those 8 “conservatives” now need Hakeem and company to get their way. Good luck with that.”
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You poor thing.
“How did Gaetz and the other 7 vote on all those bills?”
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How about you go do your own homework.
Complete agreement.
Thank you, Gaetz.
Complete agreement.
Thank you, Gaetz.
How about you go do your own homework.
LOL, thought so
Uniparty - what a joke!
All Democrats supported Gatz. All!
Just few Reps
At that point McCarthy was afraid of the reaction to a shutdown and chose to violate his pledge of a 72 hour review time.Demonrats and RINO's, predictably, started with personal attacks.
Frankly, I stand with Sam Clemens: "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)."
“Gaetz has very few friends in the conference,” said his fellow Florida Rep. Carlos Gimenez.
Nor does Trump. Both men are representing conservatives and others, very well.
You want friends in DC, get a dog!
Yep. Ever since the day they took over the House, the Republicans could have impeached Biden and his corrupt cronies. Symbolic you say? OK.
But they could have also cut off the funding.
No more persecution of Republicans or of Trump. No more pork for key Democrat constituencies.
They could have stopped Biden cold. McCarthy just chose not to.
I said it before and I’ll say it again, Gaetz didn’t vote with the Democrats. The Democrats voted with Gaetz.
Tomato / Tomahto
I said it before and I’ll say it again, Gaetz didn’t vote with the Democrats. The Democrats voted with Gaetz.
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