Posted on 12/31/2024 7:21:14 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) said on Wednesday that the successful effort last October to oust Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as Speaker of the House “has officially turned into an unmitigated disaster.” The Kentucky Republican — a top ally of Ron DeSantis’s failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination — made the remark in a post on X (formerly Twitter), expressing frustration with the leadership of new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
“Getting rid of Speaker McCarthy has officially turned into an unmitigated disaster,” Massie said before claiming McCarthy’s ouster derailed the House Republican agenda: “All work on separate spending bills has ceased. Spending reductions have been traded for spending increases. Warrantless spying has been temporarily extended. Our majority has shrunk.”
After receiving some pushback for seemingly expressing his support for McCarthy’s leadership as Speaker, the Kentucky Congressman challenged his critics to “[n]ame one thing that’s improved under the new Speaker.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz, who led the effort to remove McCarthy as Speaker, responded to Massie’s challenge, pointing to the fact Speaker Jonhnson has thus far resisted efforts to pass renewed funding for Ukraine — a measure backed by McCarthy. Following his initial response, Gaetz added: “McCarthy lied to us, made secret side deals, increased spending, got rolled by Biden, and shrunk our majority by quitting when he couldn’t run the place.” Other social media users pointed to Speaker Johnson upholding his promise to release the January 6th U.S. Capitol security camera footage to the public.
At the start of the new Congress, Massie described himself as a “barely Kevin” when asked if he’d back McCarthy’s bid for Speaker. He voted in favor of McCarthy fifteen times during the January 2023 election for House Speaker.
Getting rid of Speaker McCarthy has officially turned into an unmitigated disaster.
All work on separate spending bills has ceased.
Spending reductions have been traded for spending increases.
Warrantless spying has been temporarily extended.
Our majority has shrunk.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 7, 2024
Oh, for Pete’s sake, Massie.
Take a bubble bath and chill!!
Massie’s making too much noise too early. What’s the point? New congress hasn’t even been sworn in yet.
It is when McCarthy keeps agitating things from the outside to avenge his wounded pride at his ouster.
Getting rid of Kevin McCarthy was a disaster for doing exactly what Johnson has done, but keeping Mike Johnson is good because it will cost the GOP the Speakership. Great logic there Massie, NOT.
At least we tried.
Whatever Massie's game is, he is inconsistent at best and a grand-stander at worse. I don't trust him.
I see the Stupid Party is back from its holiday break.
Talk is cheap all have sinned IMHO. That’s the best I can offer. Happy New Year.
Why are we posting and discussing a story from 11 months ago?
Because.it gives the background and context on the self-righteous, garbage and pretend MAGA Massie.
Massie seems to be on a self-publicity campaign of Massie agrandizement.
Has CNN & MSNBC been calling Massie to schedule?
“ Why are we posting and discussing a story from 11 months ago?”
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To start the New Year with incitement to bickering and division…. by the “League of Those Who ‘Get Things Done’ (you know, those who brought us TENS OF TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS of debt)”.
Just IMHO.
We went to all the trouble to oust McCarthy, only to replace him with a guy whose Liberty Score is one percentage point better. Essentially the same thing.
At least McCarthyu was a good fundraiser.
McCarthy and Johnson are too “swamp.” Need a Musk ox to drive critters like that OUT.
OUT! OUT! OUT! I say.
Let Jeffriees [<—purposely misspelt so he can bite me] get a breath of sheer power. For a moment of no consequence. Get Johnson the hell out till he knows what balls are.
You guys that are posting these old articles are trying to cause division. It’s bovine excrement.
All of a sudden, a bunch of you have decided to post these old articles. And you’re all in lockstep saying it’s for informational purposes about Massie. Do you guys have a group chat or what? How do you choose which of you will post which article? It isn’t helping anything and you all appear to be subversive.
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