Posted on 01/04/2023 10:58:37 AM PST by Fiji Hill
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has slammed Republican members of Congress who are opposed to electing Representative Kevin McCarthy as the next speaker.
Gingrich, a Republican, told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Tuesday that the 20 GOP members who voted against McCarthy were taking "the conference hostage" and appeared to compare them to "terrorists."
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I will give Newt the benefit of the doubt, and not call him a closet Deep Stater.
But one thing is for sure. Newt is one of those “we’ll fix later” Republicans.
Nope. The time to fix things is right now,
If McCarthy is unable to convince Republicans he’ll probably be unable to convince Democrats.
Tell Republicans why you can fix the federal government if made Speaker, Kevin McCarthy!
Nice guys tend to finish last in DC.
It’s never the wrong time to do the right thing.
You might like having a RINO surrender monkey in charge of the House and that’s your prerogative. If the conservatives can force McCarthy to commit to a GOP-first agenda...for real...I’m all for it. The only clowns will be the people who fall for the “I really, really promise” BS McCarthy is selling.
Two weeks from now everybody will have forgotten this is taking place.
“They can get rid of him later, if 5 ask for a ‘no confidence’ vote.”
That just means they get a no confidence vote, not that they succeed in actually removing him.
I disagree, I recall Bernie Sanders throwing a hissy fit because two of the Dems were holding the Dems hostage on the filibuster rule etc.
That’s not holding anyone hostage, whether it’s two Dems or 5 Republicans it is good that they aren’t always in lockstep.
God Bless them? More like screw em. Nobody knows what they want, I am not even sure they know what they want. All it will take is a few reps to get tired of this bullschit political theater and vote for Jeffries and we are all screwed. The thing is, there are idjiots in the freedom council who would be fine with that. In earlier times they were called zealots
Yeah, but what does Callista think about all this?
Newt buddy, you have a few cells that are not connecting upstairs! Time to hang it up buddy. Maybe you and old joe can go play some pickle ball with the other old folk!
It was fine when Manchin and Sinema stood up for their beliefs, but now it’s not fine when 5 Republicans stand up for their beliefs?? C’mon Newt
https://www.gingrich360.com/2021/10/19/newt-gingrich-audio-update-can-sens-manchin-and-sinema-hold-to-their-beliefs/
Just another I don’t care… I don’t care who is Speaker. And I can’t vote for THEM.
Exactly, it's really not a big win IMHO
So, who exactly do the Gang O’Holdouts have in mind today for Speaker (it seems to change hourly)? Is it anyone that has even a remote chance at 218 votes?
Throughout this entire process the Gang has not nominated a single person that comes close to being a consensus candidate. Just pissing and moaning about McCarthy seems to be the only plan the Gang has.
Best thing that ever happened.
Fight on.
Absolutely NOTHING needs to happen inside the U.S. House of Representatives at this time. We have had two years of non-stop destruction by that body.
Nobody is bleeding. No fire is burning.
There is NO EMERGENCY.
Even Newsmax is coming down hard on those 21 solons who will not vote for McCarthy.
All this should have been done long ago and now they just vote the Speaker but no BLAH BLAH BLAH
Get back to the Nursing Home Newt. Pudding is waiting for you.
“Your gonna get more 🤡s if this keeps up, and very possibly Jefferies, who is only 6 votes short will become Speaker.”
No republican will vote for Jeffries. And with only 202 votes, at least 11 Dems will have to vote present for McCarthy to get his 10%.
Sorry, Newt, but I’m still against open-borders McCarthy at this time. Now go say hi to Nancy and DeeDee for me.
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