A 'Framework' for a Speaker Deal Emerges

PJ Media ^ | 01/06/2023 | Rick Moran

[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.

Fox News:

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.

[rktman]

Yup. nanzi changed after it was used on weeping john Boehner when he was spkr.

[Pigsley]

I heard Lauren Boebert say he looked at these demands and laughed then kicked them out of his office.....

[Kazan]

Or maybe the handful that opposed McCarthy are among the few in the House that know McCarthy won't do a thing advance a conservative reform agenda.

Will McCarthy do what it takes to clean up the FBI? Will he stop the money laundering operation in Ukraine? Will he do anything to reign in deficit spending?

No real conservative has any faith in establishment POS like McCarthy.

[cuz1961]

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 ? /

[vpintheak]

These morons could have been working on this deal since, Oh, I don’t know... the election results were in?
I supposed the elite figured all the comrades would get in goose-step.