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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
If Gaetz screws up his game and it results in a Democrat coalition Speaker, he should resign.
So should the rest of the 20
They almost would have to.
“We’re going to wind up with Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker, aren’t we?”
Mother Theresa said the path to wisdom was through suffering.
If he’d take it, I’d suggest Jim Jordan.
best choice i can think of
Republicant’s have demonstrated repeatedly that they do not want to be the party in power. They’re more than content to be the minority party. What’s not to love? You get all the keys to the Congressional spa and hot tub, plus invitations to all the swanky DC cocktail parties with none of the responsibility of leadership! What’s not to love?
Gaetz is a blowhard.
exactly.
I agree. They've proven this time and time again.
I'll give the Democrats credit. They LOVE being in charge!
Hakeem Jeffries is a NYC creep. He is a highly racist bigmouth from da ghetto, he is corrupt and a complete commie. A perfect comrade for former mayor DumblASSio and current mayor Adams. Having him Speaker would be an utter disaster for our country, an utter disaster. It would put the pedal to the metal for our complete destruction.
{paraphrasing Gaetz} “If McCarthy cuts a backroom deal with Dems to win the Speaker-ship, I’ll quit.”
McCarthy: “So if I cut a deal, I’m Speaker - AND I get rid of Gaetz? What was the downside again?”
Gaetz is an idiot. The Freedom Causus is not (yet) large enough to dictate terms to the GOP as a whole. Since the Tea Party days, conservatives have been chipping away and chipping away at the RINO’s. The RINOs are ever more marginalized in the GOP, but they still remain in large numbers.
The problem Gaetz has is that HE doesn’t have the numbers behind HIM. He is being impatient and overplaying his hand. His obstinance and insubordination are actually hurting the conservative and MAGA movements at the moment. And, regardless of outcome, he has also committed political suicide. There are now 202 fellow GOP congress-critters that won’t give him the time of day due to this stunt.
He would be well served to stand down, allow McCarthy as speaker with GOP votes, and continue to fight within the party for more conservative positions. The DEMS are the enemy, not his fellow Republicans. In other words, keep the family squabble within the family.
Oh how cute!
Sociopaths love being in charge. Not because they are good at what they do, but just because they love being in charge. If you look at their personal lives most of them are a Grade-A mess. It's all about power and control.
As my good friend always said, “Words mean something.”
You people are just like the people you claim to despise - demanding every one have the same opinion as you, or you will attempt to silence them.
ELITIST terminology at its finest.
Gets clearer every day who occupies the freep narrative push cubicle
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I wonder what the human/bot ratio is .
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ELITIST terminology at its finest.
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now there a cogent reply!
LOL! You don’t know squat.
Matt Gaetz = John Glover imho
The Terrible Twenty are heroes to America.
I’m going to start calling the 20
The Marbleheaders
Or
The Indispensables
( hat tip to Patrick K. McDonnell )
By June 1775, the Intolerable Acts, also known as the Coercive Acts, had pushed a port town a little more than 300 miles north of Washington Crossing to the brink.
Rendered unemployed and angry by the strict trade measures imposed by British Parliament, virtually every able-bodied man in Marblehead, Massachusetts, rallied to fight against their common enemy. (Accounts vary significantly as to exactly how many men the group included at its inception.)
The men of the Marblehead Regiment rowed Washington across the Delaware and ‘saved the Continental Army multiple times.’ ·
John Glover’s Regiment of Marbleheaders accomplished an amazing feat on the night of Dec. 25, 1776. They ferried 2,400 men, plus horses and artillery, across the Delaware River in a blinding snowstorm.
Glover’s Regiment had a well-earned reputation for discipline and teamwork.
But not everyone approved of it.
/ sound familiar ? /
Gee... It’s most unlike you to go throwing around all those ad hominems like that.
We’ve been friends here for a long time and that doesn’t change, though. I hope the day gets better for you.
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