Posted on 12/06/2022 10:12:40 PM PST by RandFan
The opposition to Mr. McCarthy’s ascent to speaker is driven by a group of five Republican lawmakers. Despite the absence of a viable alternative, they are determined to use their leverage in a bare Republican majority to make it difficult, if not impossible, for Mr. McCarthy to win the 218 votes needed to secure the speaker’s gavel on the opening day of the 118th Congress.
Republicans are poised to govern with a five-seat majority, which means just a handful of rank-and-file lawmakers could thwart Mr. McCarthy’s election.
Rep. Andy Biggs, Arizona Republican, is leading the effort to depose Mr. McCarthy, 57, who has headed the Republican conference since 2019 and before that served five years as majority leader.
Mr. Biggs, a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, told The Times that Republicans need “a change agent.” He is throwing his name into the mix as a candidate for speaker when Congress convenes on Jan. 3 despite losing overwhelmingly to Mr. McCarthy in a closed-door vote last month.
“Kevin doesn’t have the votes,” Mr. Biggs said in an interview. “I know he doesn’t have the votes. I know he knows he doesn’t have the votes. The reality is the pressure is on Kevin. It’s not on me.”
On Tuesday, Mr. McCarthy was not sweating about winning the 218.
“We’ll get to it,” he told The Times as he walked through a Capitol hallway.
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🙋 Call your peeps in Congress
Burn down that switchboard
McCarthy , fer shure , ready & willing
to do with McConnells approval- Turtle
neck already signed him in .
Imho McCarthy is a dolt... he wants the POWER he can have with this office because he knows all the perks, & that will raise his public persona.I do
believe this Rhinorat is awaiting for the gold dripping & dropping right into his pocket.
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+1
Biggs or Jordon for Speaker.
..imho he is relying ion McConnell to get the votes from the ‘rats.
The old turtle loves to make desls with and Mickey Mikey McMacky is on bended knee & washing the Old Turtles bum.
Kevin McCarthy is a Paul Ryan toadie. He would be a terrible Speaker.
This is interesting and all, but right now we need to focus on the Senate, specifically Manchin. He has to know he won’t win the dem primary next election after having been a thorn in the dem party. If he switches to republican now he would have time to solidify himself in the rep party and probably run unopposed for the republican ticket. Every day he waits to switch lessens that possibility. This is the only way he could remain in office after 2024. If we had decent leadership in the Senate and RNC they would be offering Manchin the promises he would not be able to resist. Like instead of being put to pasture in Jan 2025 he could likely head up any prestigious committee he wanted as a republican Senator. Problems is we don’t have any decent leadership in either the Senate or RNC.
i believe that was a state dinner. so why not.
he’ll never switch.
The one option that is always off the table… is that establishment GOP support the conservatives choice. You are saying the GOP would literally throw in with democrats rather than deal with the freedom caucus.
By the way, when has that seat at the table done anything for us? Obamacare still here. Wall still not built. Etc.
But he is Trump’s hand-picked choice for Speaker.
“You are saying the GOP would literally throw in with democrats rather than deal with the freedom caucus.”
Clearly the case. Witness the PRyno wing of Congress refusing to fund Trump’s beautiful wall.
I live in Colorado (and unfortunately not in Boebert’s district). I have no representative.
I’m hearing that Biggs is not a conservative.
Yes, they do and will use if to increase conservative influence in the next congress.
Deposing McCarthy only ensures a worse choice and the rebels don't dare be held responsible for that . Holding him to promises extracted will be a challenge, but some conservative pundits believe:
“There are dozens – perhaps as many as a hundred – populist conservatives joining Congress at the beginning of next year.”.--JR Dunn, AmThinker
Re: 17 - Good post that lays out the most likely outcomes.
Biggs not conservative ? Who the hell says that ?
This Arizonan wants to know. They’re wrong or trying to defame.
Scumbag was at the ceremony praising the DC police, he just pissed on Ashley babbits grave
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