Posted on 10/01/2023 8:34:06 AM PDT by aperez77
I think he has alienated just about everyone in his caucus with this behavior. There seems to be a lot more daylight between Gaetz and other Freedom Caucus members these days.
Jacqui Heinrich is also reporting this morning that she is hearing from members of the House GOP there will be a move to expel him if the Ethics Committtee investigation comes back with a negative finding. At the very least, they will use it to clip his wings.
We had 10 republicans put up as speaker. Most didn’t want the job. The others got very few votes.
Republicans fighting Republicans
Freedom caucus v Deep State
a fight worth fighting
unless you want more of the same
Oh, look...it’s the ‘flaccid RINO guns’...
Extremism did not help us in the 2022 midterms and in the 2020 presidential election. We must be more more moderate conservatives.
the number of comments in favor of the status quo is surprising
McCarthy and his fellow democrats are disgusting... The only way Gaetz should hold off fron vacating the chair is if MCCarthy uses prosedural tactics to prevent Ukraine funding from ever coming to a vote.. stop the war now... fire this McC traitor later
kinder gentler conservatives?
ghwb is back from the dead
“Exhibit A in why America is collapsing, with an enormous assist from Republicans.”
I agree.
The term “The Stupid Party” doesn’t just pertain to politicians.
The only possible alternative to McCarthy is Hakeem Jeffries, the idea that a Speaker acceptable to the tiny conservative minority is ridiculous.
You have to elect 218 conservatives to get a conservative speaker. You don’t have 20.
Dem Speaker-in-Waiting: https://jeffries.house.gov/about/
Don’t want McCarthy? Get ready for Hakeem.
You mean a Conservative Nancy Pelosi.
..and then, magically, the democrats do something where gaetz says he just can’t do it and mccarthy stays.
We have heard this one before.
Conservative republican fighting a Rino democrat you mean.
Democrats purged the Dinos years ago. Republicans are just getting started..
the only way mcarthy stays is with democratic votes.
he might get them too
Gaetz is only concerned about Gaetz. I hope someone challenges him in his Primary next year and the republicans get rid of him.
Gaerz has long been one of my favorites.
However, in this case, he seems to have cut off his nose to spite his face.
Two reasons. Frist, the spending bill he blocked did cut spending significantly, up to 8% domestically I’ve read. That’s clearly not enough, long term, but it’s better than what we ended up with now with the CR, which is no cuts.
Second, they have as promised broken up the Omnibus bill into the different appropriations bills for each department, which is a huge win. But rather than be happy with that achievement as well, we get stuck with the CR which
Is in effect a short term Omnibus again, with no cuts.
A CR of some sort was probably a requirement, due to delays in creating those individual appropriations, but the one we had lined up had budget cuts in it, that Gaetz blocked.
McCarthy starts with 212 Democrat votes. He needs six Republicans to stay.
Amazing how easy the moderates on this site reveal themselves, isn’t it?
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