Posted on 12/15/2022 1:06:13 PM PST by Red Badger
A caucus of moderate House Republicans — have threatened to tank a new House rules package if Kevin McCarthy is formally challenged. A number of House Freedom Caucus members — including U.S. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Bob Good (R-VA), among others, have mounted a significant challenge to McCarthy in recent weeks and have indicated that they will not hesitate to put forward a motion to vacate the Speaker’s chair on January 3. Of the 44 members of the self-styled “Republican Governance Group,” six voted to impeach President Trump while five were promptly voted out. A number of others voted for the commission of Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 committee that has been used to target conservatives.
Wearing “Only Kevin” buttons, the moderate Republican group met with McCarthy and threatened to preserve Pelosi era House rules if a deal is cut with GOP “hardliners” on reforms popular with the Republican electorate.
“The Republican Governance Group met w/ McCarthy this morning & told him they’d support him on multiple ballots for speaker,” wrote CNN Capitol Hill reporter Melanie Zanona in a tweet Wednesday. “But they also had a warning: if he cuts a deal with hardliners on the motion to vacate the speaker’s chair, they will not support the rules package.”
Republicans opposed to McCarthy have routinely cited his refusal to do away with Pelosi’s House rules as a primary motivation for their opposition. For the House Freedom Caucus, banning earmarks has become a top focus, though the Republican caucus voted against banning the practice during a conference meeting earlier this month.
“After the House elects a speaker, the chamber then adopts a rules package, which is where we could see some of the concessions, if any, McCarthy makes to win more speaker’s vote,” Zanona wrote in a follow-up tweet. “So this warning could further complicate things for McCarthy.”
The Republican Governance Group is threatening to preserve Pelosi era House rules even though their members performed terribly in GOP primaries when compared with the “hardliners.”
Of the 44 current members, U.S. Reps. Tom Rice (R-SC), John Katko (R-NY), Fred Upton, (R-MI), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Peter Meijer (R-MI) and Jamie Herrera Beutler (R-WA) will not be returning to Capitol Hill in January. The common denominator among these members is that they all voted to impeach President Trump, which made them incredibly unpopular among the voters who put them in office.
Rice, Meijer and Herrera Beutler were defeated at the ballot box, while the others opted to retire rather than face certain defeat in a GOP primary.
A number of other Republican Governance Group members — including Reps. Nancy Mace (R-SC), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) faced difficult primary challenges over their votes to commission a Democrat-controlled Congressional committee to investigate the January 6 Capitol protests.
Despite their unpopularity with the GOP electorate, the Republican Governance Group is again giving ground to far-left radicals in their quest to spite the “hardliners” of the Republican Party.
Looks like they're winning.
There are no actual political parties now, only fundraising groups with specific targets for obtaining money.
Some espouse conservative ideals in public, our opposites espouse socialism/communism in order to get donors to send money.
NONE of them give a damn about how our government functions, the Constitution, or the rule of law.
Get used to it.
Nowhere do we see or hear the GOP including attributes like "Constitution", "freedom", or "liberty" in any of their strategies, plans, or actions...
Their actions, ultimately, mostly include attributes like "cowardice", "incompetence", and "impotence"...
Do with Pelosi’s rules/policies/ideas, what Biden did with Trump’s rules and policies and ideas: reverse all of them, no matter if they were good or bad or indifferent.
If I vote for Democrats, I end up hating myself. If I vote for Republicans, I end up hating them.
America is going to end up either Pinochet or Khrushchev. The world’s finest republic was fun while it lasted.
“... The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
The right thing to do is let the incoming legislators vote for the speaker too.
“treason’......................
From: 45 COMMUNIST GOALS
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
It’d be nice if they reported what the rules they demanded remain are. The article mentions one rule they oppose, a ban on earmarks. That sounds odd; it helps Democrats but hurts them.
With or without the rules, whoever the Republicans put in will not be able to pass anything major given that the Democrats have the Senate and White House.
Might as well have the leader be someone entertaining or articulate—aka not McCarthy. I was hoping Trump’s major announcement was that he wanted to be Speaker.
There’s little difference between McCarthy and Pelosi. Omnibus spending will abound . Deficits will soar. Inflation will skyrocket. McCarthy is a uniparty piece of shit. He has been a proven liar that will say anything to maintain his power and only to turn around screw the Republican base. I will only have respect for reps that vote against McCarthy. Quite honestly, I rather Pelosi as speaker than McCarthy. That way America can fail faster so we can get to rebuilding things sooner. McCarthy just manages decline. He is a sadist that enjoys pain to be long and drawn out.
I can see no reason for anyone to join a political party save to gain privilege that one wou!d not otherwise possess.
There is no rebuilding... Once America is gone, no return to freedom or prosperity unless the World & our enemies get upended and removed entirely.
And by the way the new wall is ready
No matter what they’ll F’ it up. It’s amazing that the only thing they can really run is their mouths.
>>Rice, Meijer and Herrera Beutler were defeated at the ballot box, while the others opted to retire rather than face certain defeat in a GOP primary.
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Incorrect phrasing. Correct phrasing is “opted to retire in disgrace rather than face . . . .”
Please identify all 44 members, names and States.
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