He’ll win it, floor fight or not.
It’s not obvious who else is interested in the job - but there could be far better choices than McCarthy. He’s not that smart. He is deaf, dumb and blind when it comes to strategic political messaging. He’s not an effective public speaker for the GOP’s sole toehold on leadership for the next two years.
Remember that the Speaker does not need to be a member of the House. If Newt Gingrich were younger...
It’s a bold move the conservatives are taking. RINOs are vindictive SOBs and McCarthy will ruin them if he wins. As Emerson put it, “When you strike at the king you must kill him” (politically, in this case). May it be so.
Left is doing its best to stir up division on the Right. of course i am not comforted by the history of R’s - who manage to squander many opportunities.
Why does the minority party have a vote for the majority leader?
Why the editorializing in the story? It is all set in procedure. Procedure is not chaotic. From the article.
“...it could result in a chaotic floor fight...”
On the one hand, McCarthy is a spineless Establishment RINO - exactly the kind that needs to be removed from power within the Republican party.
On the other hand, because their majority is so small, the Establishment RINOs have no choice but to rely on MAGA representatives. That means they were able to hold McCarthy’s feet to the fire and extract a lot of concessions out of him - such as launching several investigations, throwing radical Leftist Democrats off of committees etc. I’m sure McCarthy didn’t like being forced to play hardball with his Democrat masters but he has no alternative. So as lousy as he is, he has to do at least some good things in the next session of Congress.
It looks like the choice is between Andy Biggs (MAGA-AZ) and Kevin McCarthy (GOPe-CA) for the soul of the party.
America first or same old same old.
This puke will win because he will have paul ryan and his ilk behind him
Conservatives could save the Republic and refuse any action for two years
NBC wet dream
Another Paul Ryan as I see it,nothing of real importance will get done regarding the blatant corruption of both sides.
I see no chance that anyone but McCarthy wins the job.
The GOP can’t even win huge with an economy like this with a terrible president.
How are they going to get someone other than a RINO in as Speaker of the House?
The best we can hop for is that the republicans posture as much as possible to stop Biden’s agenda, but I’m not betting on it.
They talk tough but are short when it comes time to actually deliver.