Posted on 12/07/2022 8:25:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) has announced he will run against current minority leader Kevin McCarthy for the position of House Speaker.
“It is time for new leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives,” Biggs wrote in an op-ed in the Daily Caller announcing his candidacy. “People are thrilled that Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s reign of Leftist extremism is ending. The question is whether we will be treated to the status quo that will move us along the same path, though perhaps more slowly.”
In the aftermath of the disappointing midterm elections, Biggs has called for a complete overhaul of the GOP’s leadership. “We cannot let this all too rare opportunity to effectuate structural change pass us by because it is uncomfortable to challenge the Republican candidate who is a creature of the establishment status quo, or because the challenge is accompanied by some minimal risk.”
We will never defeat or change the status quo, which is taking us to the Leftist’s vision of America, by selecting a status quo candidate as the third most powerful person in the government. The Republican candidate was created by, elevated by and maintained by the establishment.Is this not the pivotal point of our generation? What will two more years under the Biden Regime look like if we do not have a leader who will stand up to its objectives? Or, If Republicans don’t use every available tool to preserve our rights and defeat the assault by Biden?
Biggs previously challenged McCarthy last month in a vote among the Republican caucus, in which McCarthy was elected by a vote of 188 to 31 to be the party’s nominee. McCarthy needs to garner 218 votes to win.
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No, I don’t think he can win. However, in the past when these things come up in both parties,the question is “Who will replace him?”
SOMEONE has to make some noise, perhaps only to be available for some future opportunity if not now.
Biggs is a good man. He is worthy of support, now and in the future.
I like it a lot. If nothing else, this is a negotiation of terms that hopefully favor MAGA. I say push McCarthy to the brink. We have nothing to lose and stand to gain a lot of power.
Worst comes to worst, the dems hold on to the speakership. I say so what. McCarthy will stab us in the back, dems punch you in the face. Not much difference.
McCarthy deserves to lose. He didn’t do anything about our elections.
They should put up Tulsi Gabbard and see if she can get some lefty votes too. McCarthy is going to suck and it’s obvious. I don’t think it’s the right fight but go ahead. As long as you don’t grt outplayed and leave us with a never Trumper who wants to destroy Trump as their only reason of being
Biggs obviously has no shot, this is just posturing to force McCarthy to either give up choice assignments in the House to the conservative wing members, or choose to openly partner with “moderate democrats” to get the votes he needs for Speaker to keep the RINO’s running the committees. The closer we get to the vote, the sooner McCarthy will have to show his cards he plans to play.
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy nut — It is almost as if the Republican leadership sets up these phony challenges knowing they will go nowhere.
I saw Biggs get grilled on Bannon’s War Room yesterday. He did exceptionally well, more impressive to me than MTG, Jordan and others. I was surprised at how strong, serious, informed, experienced, and tested he was.
In my assessment, he outshines McCarthy by a mile.
But McCarthy controls the Oligarchy $$$, McCarthy is the House GOP money manager. McConnell is the same for the Senate.
Unfortunately, $$$ gets the votes. Either a member needs it for campaigns or they fear it will be deployed behind an opponent and their attack ads full of lies and half-truths. For example. GOP establishment poured millions into the AZ primary for Mike Pence endorsed gubernatorial candidate Karrin Robson against Trump endorsed Kari Lake.
There’s an outside chance Biggs can succeed if he continues speaking out and getting exposure like he did yesterday.
So we’ll probably end up with the guy who voted to impeach Trump instead of McCarthy.
When a House Speaker is elected, how long is the term?
Can there be a recall or impeachment or mutiny or some such, if they go bad?
RE: When a House Speaker is elected, how long is the term?
The term ends on the expiration of the Congress in which he was elected, unless he has resigned, died, or been removed from office. Deschler Ch 6 Sec. 2. During the 104th through 107th Congresses, the Speaker’s term of office was limited for four consecutive Congresses.
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We cannot have a Speaker that rejects the “motion to vacate the chair” rule—a rule that allows members to remove the Speaker if they are not performing well.
Any leader should subject themselves to that accountability.
McCarthy opposes this rule and that’s a problem.
Gaetz is always very well spoken as well. I’d take any of the holdouts over McCarthy for Speaker, but as you said, McCarthy controls the $$$, and as such, he probably has well over a hundred that won’t vote for anyone else, period.
So I believe as I said above, this is more about posturing, which is different from theatre, where Biggs and Gaetz are trying to get better conservatives on the committees. That guy who replaced Nunes as chair of intelligence is a prime example of who needs to go.
Made this post so I was in the thread before the first post in this thread that Gaetz and Biggs are Deep Stage stooges and Democrat lackeys
There is no such thing as impeachment in the Houses of Congress. They control who sits there and their behavior, recalcitrant members can be removed from their respective bodies by 2\3rds vote. (So, it rarely happens!)
If a “caucus” forms and can command a majority that want the speaker removed, he\she will be removed. Basically, someone files a motion for removal, and it’s voted on. that doesn’t mean “the speaker” is kicked out of the House, he\she is demoted back to being a member. (Similar procedure for all the “positions” roughly the same action in the Senate!) Most resign if that happens, if I remember this right something like that happened to Gingrich.
Who of any stature is in the house GOP cacuse voted to impeach trump? All those RINOs and D with an R were flushed in 2018, 2020 and 2022. THe House fight is more style of combat choice than anything else. The chairs of the major committees are serious people.
You might have a disappointment in the senate with 10+ GOP members and most of those are chairmen and chairwomen. The power of a chairman in the senate is of a different kind than the house. Anyone can take a fight to the Senate floor and mess up the schedule for weeks, it serves as a moderation that has served the nation well for 230+ years.
Looks like you made it in time. It is interesting, however, that Jim Jordan and MTG, both of which have been historically in complete lockstep with Gaetz and the Freedom Caucus, are supporting McCarthy for Speaker.
The conspiratorial accusations by some RINO’s against Gaetz are that he is possibly doing this at the behest of the DOJ, to prevent any charges against him for sexual matters, however frivolous (or setup by foreign spies) those charges may be.
However, I saw MTG being pressed about her position with regard to who the new Speaker would be, well before the election during a discussion about the supposed incoming red wave, and she was already quite vocal in her support of McCarthy, which the interviewer (and I at the time) found not only interresting but peculiar.
Only time will answer these questions, but for now, my money is on what Gaetz and Biggs are doing as being more helpful to the conservative cause, much more so than the supposedly new and improved MTG. However I think it’s important for everyone to keep a close eye on things, so no one pulls any shell game fast ones in the end, as no politician can ever be fully trusted.
I read somewhere else Fred Upton, even though he is retiring he could still do it. The question is, what happens if the Democrats all coalesce around a Democrat, and Biggs has split the Republican vote?
It’s all a bit like watching a train wreck
Thanks, all.
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