Posted on 01/06/2023 7:29:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s tighty-whiteys are flying high on the flagpole outside of the Capital building this morning, indicating his abject surrender to the House Freedom Caucus and his castration as a House speaker.
It’s a truly remarkable and historic turn of events. McCarthy’s concessions may allow him to be elected speaker, but they guarantee that the least governable House majority since the Civil War will emerge from the chaos.
The concessions are in a “framework” deal that emerged early Friday morning. A “framework deal” is congress-speak for “we’re kind of close to an agreement but are trying to put pressure on members to give in by announcing a deal prematurely.”
Indeed, unless the member has a personal ax to grind against McCarthy, this deal should allow most of the rebels to buy in.
It won’t be easy, automatic or immediate, according to House lawmakers who themselves were processing the information in real time as details of the deal emerged. But a written framework for rules in the 118th Congress was released on Thursday that McCarthy’s allies hope will allow many of the GOP lawmakers who have been voting against McCarthy all week to eventually support him.
Lawmakers said the framework gives members of the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) who have been resisting McCarthy virtually everything they’ve been asking for. That includes a stronger HFC representation on key House committees, guardrails aimed at curbing excessive federal spending, and allowing just a single member of the House to make a motion to replace the speaker, lawmakers familiar with the framework told Fox News.
Before we beatify HFC members as selfless saints, it should be noted that, like any good establishment pols, they’re fundraising off their “principled” rebellion.
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Because McCarthy thought he could bully the freedom caucus into abject surrender.
McCarthy has been an establishment GOP representative for many years. Hard to see him doing anything substantive to restore the Republic.
They are duly elected Congressmen and Women, just as the rest.
They have a duty to represent their voters, not McCarthy.
And they are doing so.
Or do you prefer McCarthy rule the House like Pelosi did?
The Terrible Twenty are heroes.
Amen!
Weren’t they asking for a border solution also?
What happened there?
Wasn’t one of the original four times a “balanced budget”?
Did it get watered down to “guardrails aimed at curbing excessive federal spending”?
WHAT HAPPENED THERE TOO?
The group of 20 has been asking for this since the elections. McCarthy and the RINO’s refused. Now we’re here.
Yep.
The sad part is that there are only twenty of them...
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BTTT!!!
Because the swampocrats in Congress (along with their sycophants in the Repuke Party and FR) all thought the Patriots could be intimidated.
It could be a daily occurrence. 🤔
The swamp-monster speaketh ...
So now the leadership cannot stab us in the back in some effort to get along with vile Democrats and not pay a price for it?
As I understand it they howe been negotiating since August and McCarthy wasn’t interested. Now they have him by the shorts and here we are.
I read that rule had been the custom until changed by Pelosi, so this rule is nothing new and should be there.
The government is functioning just fine and until September when new spending bills are needed the House can stay home.
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