I Don't Think the House Fight Worked Out the Way Matt Gaetz Thought It Would

PJ Media ^ | 10/04/2023 | Paula Bolyard

[SeekAndFind]

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) successfully led a coup against now-former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday. He managed to eke out a “win” by rallying the entire Democratic caucus and eight Republicans to oust him. It’s the first time that has happened in U.S. history.

And it’s a total clown show.

Not only does it distract from the already tense budget negotiations, but it makes a laughingstock of the GOP—and the U.S.—and gives Democrats even more leverage to push through their radical policies.

Gaetz got a win, but at what cost? Sure, he’ll raise a lot of campaign money from this—he’s already sending out emails and asking for money on Fox News— but is there a plan going forward? Of course not. The two congressmen whose names have been bandied about as potential House speakers—Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Steve Scalise (La.)—both spoke on behalf of McCarthy ahead of the vote and then voted to keep him as speaker. McCarthy announced tonight that he will not seek reelection as speaker. Gaetz stated emphatically that he doesn’t want the job. At publishing time, Scalise had sort of thrown his hat into the ring, and some are floating Trump as the next speaker, but none of that will be sorted out quickly.

House Democrats and Republicans have been at a stalemate over budget negotiations. The continuing resolution will expire on Nov. 17. There will be another showdown and possible shutdown as the country races toward the proverbial fiscal cliff. Instead of working on that problem, Republicans will be squabbling over the speakership. How does that help the country?

Gaetz, whether intentionally or ignorantly, overplayed his hand. He’s being celebrated in some circles as the brave defender of all that’s good, but not everyone is on board.

[House Atreides]

“ Now, instead doing any legislating and solving the budget problems, Republicans will spend all the time on trying to find a speaker.”
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This is OCTOBER…WTH were the House Republicans doing ALL-YEAR-LONG to solve “budget problems”?

[Bayard]

Author is a Tool.

[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!

[CodeToad]

“And it’s a total clown show.”

The author says that as though the House and Senate aren’t already a clown show, a literal clown show with the likes of AOC, Fetterman, et al.

[Leaning Right]

Trump is wrong here. McCarthy wasn’t fighting the “Radical Left Democrats” when he was ousted. He was dealing with them, to the detriment of the country.

We need a Trump-like MAGA Speaker. Odd that Trump himself cannot see that.

[Bayard]

Agreed,

Literal freak show and dog and pony show for a long time.

[Manic_Episode]

Nonsense. The plan is to bag RINOs and it is work8ng our beautificatiously.

[Robert DeLong]

Ridiculous analysis, as he lied continually & didn’t honor his commitment that he made. He never intended to keep those commitments whatsoever. Because he fully expects voters like you to ignore his commitments to begin with.

[McGavin999]

Whoever is the new speaker needs to immediately announce there will be no 4 day weeks until all appropriation bill are ready for floor vote. They need to get those passed before the 30th of October so there is time to go to conference with the senate.

[lurk]

Gaetz is not a college sophomore. Yes, he just drove the van off the road, but I’ll wager a sandwich he’s got the next five steps written down.

[delchiante]

McCarthy out as Speaker and McCarthy’s buddy Pelosi, given an eviction notice..

Well done

[tennmountainman]

“I thought he made a very good showing for himself”

Maybe that Good Showing Will Help Him Get a Job With His Buddy Paul Ryan
at Fake Faux News.

[Rockingham]

McCarthy won the support of support of Gaetz and the other dissidents when he was elected Speaker. McCarthy lost that support through lying and lack of performance on clear and specific promises -- and then McCarthy dared Gaetz to pull the trigger.

The dummy in that equation is McCarthy, not Gaetz. Rather than perform on his promises to GOP colleagues, McCarthy foolishly believed Democrat promises to back him up in stiffing the GOP. Hilariously, payback is now being delivered by evicting Pelosi and Hoyer from their coveted Capitol hideaway offices.

[TomGuy]

the entire Democratic caucus and eight Republicans to oust him. It’s the first time that has happened in U.S. history.

It may be the first time a speaker got voted off the island, but numerous speakers have been forced or coerced into resigning.

[T.B. Yoits]

Gaetz was right and a Speaker of the House should face the same vote every day Congress was in session. Make it part of roll call.

McCarthy broke the deal about single-subject spending bills. Burying spending in other bills is how the globalists have gotten korrupt bureaucrats to rip off taxpayers to pay for the globalists' agenda for DECADES.

McCarthy broke the deal about no bill coming up without 72 hours to review. Sending up bills without sufficient review is simply a crime.

These conservatives know that the RINO half of the Uniparty will continue to sell us out if they could.

Let no one forget that the RINOs wanted Hillary Clinton as President in 2016. They had their boy Yeb all lined up to take a dive like Romney and McStain had done versus Obama. Just let that sink in. The RINOs wanted Hillary Clinton to win. They despise President Trump because he ruined their plans.

Kudos to Matt Gaetz for standing up and fighting.

[FreeReign]

The article is filled with poorly developed arguments. Almost all of them.

[AZJeep]

were the House Republicans doing ALL-YEAR-LONG to solve “budget problems”?
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Fighting Brandon and Chuckie!
Remember, they passed budget a long time ago, but Chuckie stopped them cold. And if that was to be passed, Brandon would veto it.

It is hard to accomplish anything if you barely control one third of the government.
The only thing they had going on for them was the thread of shutting down the government.
That’s goner now thanks to Getz and company.

[xkaydet65]

Repudiation ?? Republicans voted 210 to 8 in favor of McCarthy.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

PJ Media is part of Townhall Media, which serves as a mouthpiece for the GOP establishment.

[FreeReign]

Trump took to Truth Social to berate Republicans for their disunity, writing, “Why is it that Republicans are always fighting among themselves, why aren’t they fighting the Radical Left Democrats who are destroying our Country? Hardly a ringing endorsement of Gaetz’s strategy (if he even had one).

Hardly a criticism of Gaetz either. It was neutral. Which has been Trump's position all along.

Trump CAN'T fight every battle.