Posted on 01/09/2023 7:47:27 AM PST by JonPreston
Kevin McCarthy reportedly agreed to spending caps that would limit future aid to Ukraine as part of the deal with ultraconservatives that enabled him to finally be elected as House speaker on Saturday.
Mr McCarthy, a Republican, secured the position in the early hours, following a historic five-day 15-vote fight that brought Washington to a standstill.
His Right-wing opponents from the chamber’s Freedom Caucus, dubbed the “Taliban 20”, wielded their opposition to US aid for Kiev as part of their justification for voting against him in the first 14 votes.
Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, one of the most hardline aid sceptics, led the charge against Mr McCarthy’s candidacy for speaker before eventually yielding after an extraordinary confrontation in the chamber.
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Ultra conservative? What about super mega conservatives?
He damned well better cut aid to Biden’s prime source of millions.
Cool, next aid package will be $39.5 billion instead of $40 billion.
Good.
Let the EU pickup the tab
Good!
The propaganda never stops-—If you don’t give money to corrupt leftists then you’re deemed “Ultraconservative, Nazi, white supremacists” .
We’ll see. I have my doubts. I will only be happy if we spend somewhere between 0 and 0 more dollars on Ukraine.
Cut? Eliminate would be the correct answer.
The kind of BS one would expect from “Ukraine Today”. I especially liked “ Freedom Caucus, dubbed the Taliban 20” line. Nobody called them that.
:)
I’ll go one further and lobby for funds to start shelling/droning that greasy little POS Zelensky.
I don’t want it to just stop - I want revenge.
It makes a real MAGA conservative feel warm and fuzzy inside being slandered by these DC globalist stooges. I wonder if the FR Biden PR team is going to start referring to the Freedom Caucus like this? I guess they’ll wait for their big guy’s lead.
LOL
Must be why that little grifter Z called Kevin up right after the vote. LOL
“What about super mega conservatives?”
That’s us.
“I don’t want it to just stop - I want revenge.”
That is a rational, appropriate point of view.
Yeah, no big deal: my half-Hispanic children used to call me racist for not giving them what they thought they deserved. Now that they’re older with kids of their own, they understand…lol.
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