Posted on 12/15/2022 3:43:46 AM PST by RandFan
The requests in the Thursday letter include:
Restore any member’s ability to make a “Motion to Vacate the Chair” and force a vote on removing the Speaker. Former Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a founding Freedom Caucus member, helped propel former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) toward retirement by making a motion to vacate the chair in 2015.
Require at least 72 hours from release of final bill text before it gets a vote on the House floor.
Bar House GOP leadership and leadership-affiliated PACs from getting involved in primaries. The McCarthy-aligned Congressional Leadership Fund was active in many House primaries boosting McCarthy-friendly candidates in the 2022 cycle.
Increase the number of Freedom Caucus members in committee chairmanships and on the House Rules Committee.
Decline to raise debt ceiling without a plan to cap spending and balance the federal budget in 10 years.
Do not “return to the blind embrace of earmarks.” The practice of directing federal spending to a specific recipient or project was brought back in this Congress as “community project funding” after a decadelong ban. The House Republican Conference last month overwhelmingly voted against an internal proposal to ban the practice.
Use “must-pass” bills like the annual defense authorization bill and the farm bill as leverage to secure conservative priorities and “check the Biden administration.”
Create a “Church Committee”-style panel to target “weaponized government.” While McCarthy and House Republicans have promised extensive investigations into the Biden administration and alleged politicization of federal agencies, some, like Roy, think the plans do not go far enough.
SIGNED:
Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Chip Roy (Texas), Dan Bishop (N.C.), Andrew Clyd (Ga.) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.) and Reps.-elect Eli Crane (Ariz.) and Andy Ogles (Tenn.).
These 7 will support him if he implements these proposals but will it be enough? It doesn't look like it.
He's telling the media he has the votes when it doesn't look like that is the case!
How about reduce the number of "must-pass" bills by stopping sending omnibus budget bills to the Senate and go back to the regular order of passing separate department-specific budget bills that the Senate can't politically hold up individually?
-PJ
My impression is it’s quite weak stuff.
And he’s having trouble accepting this!
He wants to be a dictator!
I think the other 5 will want what you suggest...
McCarthy can promise to do all those thing. Doesn’t mean he will.
Very good analysis!
Also, to even have a list of acceptable conditions is a sign of weakness in itself. The so called hardliners are already caving IMHO.
The first order of business for the new house is election integrity, and refusing to seat members certified from illegal or fraudulent elections. That gives the Republicans a few extra seats before new elections are held in such districts. After that, funding needs to be withheld from the USPS until mail in balloting is restricted by legislation. They need to shut down the whole federal government until that gets done. These other matters come after the above.
Which is why they have included the motion to vacate the chair as one of them.
That might be my favorite one of all!
...after discussing it with Mark Levin...
Those are not unreasonable demands.
“Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Chip Roy (Texas), Dan Bishop (N.C.), Andrew Clyd (Ga.) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.) and Reps.-elect Eli Crane (Ariz.) and Andy Ogles (Tenn.).”
Don’t see EyePatch McCain on that list. LOL.
“McCarthy can promise to do all those thing. Doesn’t mean he will.”
That’s why they want the first rule. McCarthy will promise just what they want to hear, but the only way to actually hold him to those promises would be to have a way to remove him.
Thanks for including the lead five. Can there really be holdouts with the pressure they will be under to cave? The twelve should be inundated with support letters including offers of campaign contributions to hold the line.
Exactly. A threat is implied — and not too subtle.
Of course, our GOP is so puny they’d never follow through.
You are correct, of course. But perhaps under preliminary Housekeeping it ought to first dramatically adopt Pelosi's House Rules.
That would be the rules that allowed her to emasculate McCarthy's right to select the R's that would serve on the Jan6 committee. The R's could use such rules to good ends in the coming sessions*
* "Fair and balanced" is healthy for the MSM, but not for the kind of existential political warfare our nation is experiencing.
That can’t be done. They would actually have to do their jobs.
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