Gingrich on House Republicans Voting to Oust McCarthy: ‘They’re Traitors’

Breitbart ^ | 10/04/2023 | Jeff Poor

[ChicagoConservative27]

During an appearance on Tuesday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Hannity,” former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich declared those Republicans who voted to remove Kevin McCarthy from the House Speaker’s post earlier in the day to be “traitors.”

“I think it’s a very sad day because I think Kevin McCarthy is one of the most talented leaders I’ve ever worked with,” he said. “I think that he accomplished an amazing amount for having a small majority and being — having to take on both the Senate and the White House. And I think this is really a tragic outcome. This was a leader who both gained seats in 2020, gained seats in 2022, increased the number of women members, increased the number of veterans, increased the number of minority members, and he had a vision for a better future. And let’s be clear here, Sean. You know, if the University of Georgia Bulldogs, who are the number one team in the country right now, if you started a game and four of the members of the offensive squad decided they were actually on the Alabama side and began tackling your own people, you probably get them off the field.”

[Boogieman]

Yeah, McCarthy did a great job. For the Democrats.

[central_va]

I’ll bet a lot of HOR GOPers are glad valley boy McPoofy Hair is gone but hid behind Matt and the “gang of 8”. They let Matt take the kill shot.

[SaxxonWoods]

“Split the Republicans, so they cannot do anything!”

“99% of failures come from people who make excuses.”
-George Washington.

Most Republicans don’t want to “do anything” conservatives want done, and that is their main accomplishment.

[1Old Pro]

and the results of McCarthy are that Joe Biden and the Democrats got everything they wanted, and the base of the party got nothing.

Exactly, they forgot about the base, the people who voted for them. THE VOTERS need to come first, not the conference, not your mega donors, not nobody but the base.

[Boogieman]

“And where were the spending cuts he advocated?”

A RINO promising spending cuts is like an alcoholic promising he’ll stop drinking. It’s always next week, next month, next year.

[bert]

Balderdash

[Boogieman]

Could be, but that still means they have no spine. And people with no spine usually don’t stay true to any principles for very long either.

[jmaroneps37]

Please stop Newt your bootlicking has saved your gig with Faux news.

[al baby]

Newt and Pelosi sittin on a couch

[fabjr60]

“Talented?” I’ll lay you eight to five that Gingrich cannot name one McCarthy accomplishment that does not involve kissing Joe Biden’s ass and supporting the fascist proxy war in Ukraine. McCarthy made deals with Biden. He was not elected to make deals but advance a Conservative agenda. He lied, he betrayed and he failed. Who is inconvenienced by his comeuppance?

[SaxxonWoods]

Democrats act. Their actions are visible in the federal govt, every state and city, even inside every citizen’s home. Republicans dither, make noise and do nothing. Has Newt still got his Climate Change couch he sat on with Nancy?

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Newt is just making sure his FOX paychecks keep coming.

[PetroniusMaximus]

This from Mr. NAFTA!

[Bratch]

Kevin McCarthy Tells Republican Caucus He Will Not Seek Speakership Again – Here’s My Thoughts

October 3, 2023 | Sundance | 607 Comments

According to multiple DC media sources, a quiet effort is underway by members of the professionally republican mindset to kick Matt Gaetz out of the House Republican caucus.  However, the advocates worry they will be primaried by voters in their district, as the population of Republican voters supports Gaetz.  It is a duplicitous dynamic.

Meanwhile, Kevin McCarthy has told his Republican conference that despite prior statements, he will not attempt to become the House Speaker again and will instead retire to his home district in California.

No one is quite sure what comes next; what is clear is that Gaetz has channeled the frustration of the Republican/MAGA base into an actionable result.  This should not come as a surprise to the GOPe, although many of the cloistered clan continue pretending not to understand the dynamic at play.

Allow me to provide some simple clarity.

♦ In 2009 72% of the country, and an even larger percentage of the Republican voters, did not want Obamacare.  The govt takeover of healthcare was along purely ideological grounds.  For the 2010 midterm election, the professional Republican apparatus campaigned on this single issue – repeal Obamacare.  The voters destroyed the Democrats and flipped 67 seats to Republican control.  The professional Republicans wanted the House, frustrated American voters gave it to them.

The Republicans did nothing.

♦ In 2012, the professional Republicans campaigned on retaining the House and asked to begin a process of taking down the Democrat control of the Senate. Remember, it was a 60/40 Senate when the Obamacare boondoggle was begun.  Keep the House, help us take Senate seats, and we will repeal Obamacare and balance the budget.  That was the call of the 2012 professional Republicans.  The voters delivered.  The GOPe kept the house, took 6 seats in the Senate and introduced a wave of fresh Republican blood.

The Republicans did nothing.

♦ In the 2014 midterm election, the professional Republicans campaigned on retaining the House and now flipping the Senate with more GOP seats.  Keep the House, give us the Senate majority, and we will repeal Obamacare and deliver a balanced budget.  The voters again delivered.  Beginning in January 2015, the Republicans controlled the House and the Senate majorities for Obama’s last two years.

The Republicans did nothing.

Worse still, even with professional Republican control of both chambers of congress, President Obama never had to use his veto pen.

♦ In the 2016 election, after the professional Republicans could no longer stop/block candidate Donald Trump, they said if we get the White House, retain the House and retain the Senate, we will repeal Obamacare, return to regular budgetary order, and balance the budget.   Stunningly, against all the odds, the voters yet again delivered.  President Trump won the election; Republicans now held the White House, the House and the Senate – as requested.

The Republicans did nothing.

Worse still, the professional Republicans acted as if they were the dog that just caught the car.  Now they had no excuses, and as a result there was an exodus of retirements announced from the caucus of the professionally Republican to begin in 2018.

Simultaneously, the professional Republicans passively allowed the targeting of Donald Trump by a fully weaponized intelligence apparatus and justice system to commence.  To say the professionally Republican were willfully blind would be polite and generously honest.

In the background the RNC did nothing.  The California ballot harvesting operation of 2018 reflected a complete lack of action by the RNC or CA GOP.  We all well remember how that operation expanded nationwide in 2020, again with the RNC doing nothing.

This is the reality of what took place between the elections of 2010 and 2020.   Every ask of the professionally rRpublican apparatus was delivered by voters. Every ask of the voters in return was ignored.  Effective January 2021, Obamacare still exists, no budget was ever produced, the borders were unsecured, the economy tanked due to Biden policy, energy and printing presses.  Crises, along with insufferable government mandates, amplified and expanded from coast to coast.

The Green New Deal was passed by Republicans and Democrats, and the collapse of the economy came with it.

Clear enough?

Suddenly, as if there was no background of repeated broken promises and a complete failure to deliver on any key request, Kevin McCarthy and his legion of professionally Republican supporters pretend they cannot fathom why the base voters are more than happy to support Matt Gaetz.

WASHINGTON DC – Kevin McCarthy will not seek the speakership again, marking a devastating end to his time in GOP leadership.

The California Republican informed his members behind closed doors Tuesday night that he will forsake another attempt to win the top job after his ouster on Tuesday, according to seven people familiar with the remarks.

His announcement comes amid intense anger over his ouster by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and seven other GOP members, who voted with House Democrats to eject him earlier Tuesday. Most Republicans vocally opposed his eviction.

McCarthy told his conference that he would return to California to spend time with his family. In his stead, the House will be run by Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), his hand-picked choice as acting speaker. House Republicans have no plans to return to session until next week, scrapping their plans to try to pass party-line spending bills.

The vacancy atop the House is sure to set off a scramble among ambitious Republicans — one that’s likely to get dirty and dragged-out, particularly if McCarthy’s deputies try to ascend. The GOP agrees that the most obvious choices are Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) and Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), all of whom had publicly backed McCarthy until he bowed out.

“I might have been given a bad break, but I’m still the luckiest man alive,” McCarthy said, according to multiple people in the room when he revealed he would not, as he’d vowed, keep trying to stay speaker.

[…] Republicans are willing to admit one thing: No one knows what the coming days, or weeks, will bring. (read more)

Battered Conservative no more!

[Pete Dovgan]

Newt.
Was a huge fan but your really not getting it.

I know you will never read this message, but if you get it in another form or somebody else, you need to think hard on it.

Your a business as usual guy, in a time when business as usual for Congress is destroying the Republic. The safety net of Social Security, the safety of the nation, the actual currency itself, and the economics of the actions of the Bribem Administration endanger the Constitution, legal system, and future of every American. The Republicans who voted against McCarthy stood up for Middle Class America. They stood for fiscal responsibility and accountability. The stood for enforcing immigration laws. The stood against corrupt FBI, DOJ, and FBI and elections manipulation by government.

You made a contract with America. Had you lied to the Republicans, and broken your contract, I would have wished the same on you as McCarthy. McCarthy broke his contract, he no longer supported the people that have voted for Conservatives.

[OKSooner]

Traitors to whom, Newt?

[bobbo666]

What is needed is someone who keeps his word to his supporters and is also willing to fight. McC was neither of those.

[dfwgator]

[Zathras]

Neut had his chance to extend the Reagan Revolution.
He could have used skills to educate voters and promote conservative thinking.
Instead he did what Pelosi told him and poof he was gone.
Just like McCarthy.

[Qiviut]

Et tu, Newt?