Posted on 01/07/2023 3:18:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
It is finished. Or is it? On the contrary, the battle has just begun.
As everyone on the planet is surely aware by now, Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy became Speaker of the House in the wee hours of Saturday morning after four grueling days, 15 ballots, back-room dealing, shouting, and near fisticuffs between two GOP congressmen. Now the real battle begins — in earnest.
“That was easy, huh?,” McCarthy joked, after accepting the gavel, “We never thought we’d get up here.”
I hope one thing is clear after this week: I will never give up. I will never give up [on] you, the American people. And I will never give up on keeping our Commitment to America.
As my colleague Nick Arama reported, the new Speaker pledged to follow through on the concessions he made in exchange for hold-out members of the GOP Caucus to instead vote “present,” vs. voting for a different nominee, thus lowering his threshold for victory to 216 votes.
The Californian stressed that his responsibility, first and foremost, is to America:
As Speaker of the House, my ultimate responsibility is not to my party, my conference, or even our Congress. My responsibility – our responsibility – is to our country. Two months ago, you voted for a new direction for our country. You embraced our Commitment to America. And now, we are going to keep our commitment to you.
While McCarthy’s hand as Speaker of the 118th Congress was weakened by multiple comprises with Republican hardliners, it’s my belief that the GOP-controlled chamber will be stronger as it faces the ever-more-bitter Democrat Party as a result of intra-party deal-making to secure the gavel.
Here’s more, as reported by Just the News:
The Speakership race exposed a long-simmering divide between establishment Republicans with a penchant for conceding to last-minute spending laws that have bloated the national debt from $6 trillion to $32 trillion over the last two decades and the more restless, rebellious members of the House Freedom Caucus forged in the fires of the Tea Party and MAGA movements and their take-no-hostages tactics.
The 20 Republicans who held out for more than a dozen votes to deprive McCarthy of the gavel forced sweeping concessions in the rules package that govern how Congress operates and votes. Those concessions substantially shifted the power to decide what issues will be voted upon and what will be spent from tax dollars to House majority leadership – where it has resided for more than two decades – to rank-and-file members.
[W]ith a House in which the parties are divided by just a few seats, the new rules will not only empower rank-and-file Republicans to demand more of their leaders, it will also give Democrats unprecedented power to gum up the House agenda from their minority position.
The sweeping new rules resemble those of House Speaker Newt Gingrich after winning the gavel in 1995, due in large part to the GOP’s Contract with America, which Gingrich and the Republicans used to balance the budget for the first time in decades between a Republican-led Congress and the Clinton White House.
“Let me be clear,” McCarthy vowed: “We will use the power of the purse and the power of the subpoena to get the job done.”
Look, politicians make political speeches — it’s what they do. But now McCarthy has the chance he’s coveted since 2015 to get ‘er done.
As I argued in a Friday op-ed titled It’s Long Past Time for the Republican Party to Take a Few Pages From the Democrat Playbook, it’s now incumbent on the Republicans to roll up their sleeves and fight Democrat fire with similar fire, including the inclusion of the emotional aspects of conservatism (of which there are many) into their arguments, and repackaging messaging accordingly — given that Democrats largely win on emotion vs. hard facts.
Moreover, the fatal notion of appealing only to one’s peanut gallery (see: Donald Trump) must give way to consciously working to win back independent voters and Republican voters who didn’t show up in 2020. Argue the observation all you want, but facts are facts.
Now that the gavel is secured, as I wrote on Thursday, there’s a larger war to come.
How ’bout we win this one, for a change?
Just get to work and BLOCK the radical America-hating marxist decadent agenda of the democrat party!
That's what I'm afraid of.
Meh, it’ll be only a matter of months, if that long, before his inner RINO will come out of the closet. Again.
McCarthy only fights hard against Republicans.
Hmmm...
We'll just have to wait and see...
It is more probable that we will get the historically pathetic results from the GOP House majority...
The odds are that the GOP circle-jerk experts will spin wheels and suffer unending mouth diarrhea about what they would do if they had the Senate and the WH also...
And we already know how GOP total control has turned out in the past 20 years...
The odds that they will accomplish anything remotely associated with returning our long-lost freedoms and liberties that were once protected by the former Constitution are about the same as winning the next 800,000,000 lottery ...
The best hope is that they, at least, slow the communists down, somewhat, and try to minimize additional chains around our necks for the next two years...
However, our communist masters can probably smell the usual scents of future surrender emanating from both the House & Senate...
With their monstrous victory in getting the porkulous bill and its whole list of new tyrannical rules & regulations passed so easily, the communists have no real concerns as they embark on 2024 election selection operations...
McCarthy only fights hard against Republicans.
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Not really he doesn’t fight hard either way.(Except for Speaker)
Yet, not one democrat voted for McPussy in 15 rounds of voting.(The democrats don’t like him either)
McCarthy doesn’t fight that hard on issues important to conservatives, he’s guy that fills Republican House campaigns with cash.
“As I argued in a Friday op-ed titled It’s Long Past Time for the Republican Party to Take a Few Pages From the Democrat Playbook, it’s now incumbent on the Republicans to roll up their sleeves and fight Democrat fire with similar fire, including the inclusion of the emotional aspects of conservatism (of which there are many) into their arguments, and repackaging messaging accordingly — given that Democrats largely win on emotion vs. hard facts.”
Don’t hold your breath.🙄
Fixed it.
-PJ
“it will also give Democrats unprecedented power to gum up the House agenda”
And this is different how?
Some peanut gallery. He had to stick that in there lest anyone thought Trump was better than him.
Will he actually try to get the rules package through, or will he sit idly by and let the Dhimmicraps & a few helpful RINOs scuttle the package, then tell the Freedom Caucus, “Well, I tried”?
RINOs like McCarthy think that still works.
Let me be clear,” McCarthy vowed: “We will use the power of the purse and the power of the subpoena to get the job done.....
As long as my bosses Klaus and George agree.”
bump
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