Posted on 01/06/2023 6:30:28 AM PST by Dr. Franklin
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has threatened to resign if the Republican party will negotiate with Democrats in voting to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as speaker.
Matt Gaetz announced his intentions to resign from Congress in an interview on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle” Thursday night if he and other GOP patriots continued to refuse to back Kevin McCarthy’s speakership campaign.
Rep. Gaetz was asked by Laura Ingraham if he was okay with Republicans giving Democrats co-control of the committees, Gaetz firmly responded, “No!”
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Gaetz told Laura that he “wouldn’t be betting on my vote for Kevin McCarthy under almost any circumstance.”
“Kevin McCarthy is the masthead of the Lobby Corps. And I resent the extent to which Kevin McCarthy utilizes the lobbyists and the special interests to be able to dictate how political decisions are made, how policy decisions are made, and how leadership decisions are made.”
“Kevin McCarthy has been in the leadership for 14 years, and he has sold shares of himself to special interests, to political action committees. And so that’s why I don’t think he is an appropriate choice,” he continued.
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For those who have requested it, I will try to post another LIVE thread at "high noon" on the floor vote for Speaker of the House.
Please do, thank you.
That sentence is contorted and false. He will resign if mcC deals with dems. That sentence is saying he will resign if he continues to back mcC...???
We’re going to wind up with Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker, aren’t we?
I’m afraid so.....
It wasn’t a threat. He said he was so confident it wouldn’t happen that he was willing to say he’d resign if it did. Like saying “If that happens I’ll eat my hat”
Don’t do it. Dont be a quitter. Your resignation would just make the Congress worse.
Watch for Dmorat trickery.
No, this has yet to play out. We have already reformed the House more than in the last 100 years.
The HIGH NOON threads are friggin’awesome. Thank you.
Gaetz should not resign from Congress - he should leave the Republican Party and caucus with the GOP (occasionally) as an independent. And so should the other 20 holdouts.
Can’t have Dem trickery WITHOUT the RINOS joining in, so typical of our side!!!
Agreed. This has definitely caught the attention of the sewer dwellers.
Too bad the rest of the 20 apparently aren’t so clear on that.
It is because the GOP wing of the uniparty is so monstrously compromised that McCarthy is in the leadership position he has — and will overtly team with the Dems to keep his position if that’s what it takes.
“We’re going to wind up with Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker, aren’t we?”
Nope. We are going to wind up with a quid pro quo whereby enough Democrats back McCarthy for speaker in exchange for co-chair positions and there is nothing the Republican wing of the RINO party can do about it.
Drama Queen..
If McCarthy does something lime this just to be speaker it shows jus what SLIME he is and how right the freedom caucus is about him!! McCarthy makes me nauseous there is NOTHING I like about him NOTHING!!! Weak, useless, POS!!!
No, just a lone voice, (well 20 voices), in the wilderness who have had it up to their eyebrows with republitard duplicity, which cause all to suffer.
If they *co with democrats, I’m not bothering to vote anymore.
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