Posted on 10/06/2023 10:56:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
Liberal Republicans and Democrats and RINO Republicans are working together to expel Rep. Matt Gaetz (FL) from the U.S. House in the wake of Tuesday’s successful ouster of Kevin McCarthy from his role as Speaker of the House, according to an exclusive interview Rep. Lauren Boebert gave National File on Thursday.
“The threat to expel Matt Gaetz is definitely real,” Boebert told National File’s publisher Noel Fritsch via telephone. “The next House Speaker needs to make blocking any expulsion vote of Gaetz a primary piece of their platform for the gavel,” Boebert said.
“I fully support Matt’s move to use a privileged motion to vacate the Speaker. While I may have had disagreements with Matt on timing, it is important to note that without my fighting so hard in January to add the one-member Motion to Vacate back into the Rules package, Matt would not have been able to file the motion,” Boebert told National File.
“A lot of our colleagues in D.C. were pushing back against us, telling us the Motion to Vacate was a distraction, and so I told them that with all of the other demands we were going to be making, we absolutely needed to have an accountability mechanism to give teeth to our efforts,” she explained.
“Without my working so hard for the Motion to Vacate in January, this would not have happened,” she said.
In focusing on stopping an expulsion vote against Matt Gaetz, Boebert is adding another keystone item to conservatives’ wish-list for a new House Speaker.
Other top-tier demands include ending the funding of the Ukraine war and defunding the Jack Smith prosecution of Donald Trump, releasing the January 6th political prisoners, and more broadly stopping the weaponization of the DOJ.
Jim Jordan, who was installed by McCarthy as head of the Judiciary Committee, quickly announced his candidacy for House Speaker. Jordan was supposed to have been heading up the effort with the Weaponization Committee to end the Biden administration’s weaponized D.O.J. Whether Jordan’s his lack of success in stopping the Biden administration from weaponizing the DOJ against Trump will help or hurt his newly announced bid for House Speaker.
The rules for the expulsion vote are provided for in the Constitution.. Two-thirds of the members of each the House and the Senate may vote to expel a member for what the rules call “disorderly conduct.” Whispers around the idea that the House may vote to expel Matt Gaetz have been bubbling up since the Florida representative began making public statements about the failed leadership of McCarthy in September.
But the threat to expel conservative house members goes back into the last Pelosi-led Congress, sources have told National File. “That threat hangs over the member like a sword of Damocles,” one senior staffer told National File. “The second the 100 or so RINOs begin teaming up with the 210 Democrats to kick us all out of Congress, it really will be over for the Republic,” another senior staffer said.
As far back as early 2021, McCarthy was working with Pelosi to use the dreaded expulsion vote to off-load troublesome members, such as those who led the initiative to object to the fraudulent electors sent to D.C. by states like Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan.
Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of the top targets of the Pelosi-McCarthy expulsion bargain from the outset of her first term in 2021, according to multiple sources on Capitol Hill.
Now, despite having voted against Donald Trump for House Speaker in January, Marjorie is telling the world she supports Trump for Speaker. The current House Rules, which Taylor Greene voted for actually bar Donald Trump from being House Speaker. Donald Trump has said he is willing to serve as House Speaker, but it would require a change of the House Rules.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s stunning one-hundred-eighty degree turn toward McCarthy had everything to do with the McCarthy-Pelosi threat to expel her after her comments about Israeli manufactured space lasers, according to multiple sources near the Greene camp. Noel Fritsch
How can democrats vote to expel Gaetz for doing what they did?
O0ops apply that to Pelousi. Apologies.
Thats easy, all but the eight that voted to vacate the chair.
And where’s Mittens on this “chaos”?!
What about saving “muh Democracy” now?
Oh that’s right - our political dictators of the uniparty don’t care and are showing their true colors.
We need more politicians like Matt Gaetz and fewer RINOs.
It has to come out of the committee. If there are ethics violations, of course they will work to kick him out.
He took a shot at the king, and succeeded. But he did not remove the “royal” family. McCarthy raised a lot of money for a lot of people. They are not happy about it.
Trump won’t let Gaetz be expelled.
P.S. — This is how leaders in Congress buy their support.
It’s not really Gaetz at issue. It’s the motion to vacate.
In the eyes of the Swamp, this ties the hands of a Speaker to advance legislation that does not have a majority of his own party. In the view of the Swamp, anything of this sort that threatens the process of “keeping the wheels turning” is a huge threat.
The superior answer is to simply define legislation to get that majority support. If it doesn’t have that, it doesn’t get a vote. Why should that be different? Because in the eyes of the Swamp, that threatens the wheels turning.
It also applies pressure to the Senate they would like not to have. In the past the could rely on the “wheels turning” imperative to force the House to surrender. The motion to vacate rule erases that. There IS no imperative to keep the wheels turning.
Boy, a LOT of that bunch needs to be tried for treason and hanged. I have heard WAY too much that pushes me in that direction. They have COMPLETELY corrupted the process and are running the country soley for their OWN benefit, everyone else be damned.
all of em, except the eight hard right MAGA ones
As long as there are fire alarms in the House there should be no votes on removing Matt.
and this is why more people are going independent, BOTH sides are corrupt as hell just the GOP is better dressed. Notice no Dem would EVER even consider doing this, EVER to one of their own, but the GOP goes to the side that wants anyone they disagree with “Deprogrammed” and beg for help
Expel Nancy and Jefferies.
There are two sets of rules. One for the acts of corruption and the other which will put you in jail, for freedom and righteousness.
‘may vote to expel a member for what the rules call “disorderly conduct.”’
Except what Gaetz did was perfectly orderly, following the rules that were adopted by the House.
What would be “disorderly” would be trying to misuse the expulsion power against Gaetz. That would be conduct meriting expulsion for everyone that attempts it.
Totalitarian government is at the doorstep.
Also, if they do manage to expel Gaetz, it would set him up pretty nicely to get the VP nod, except that he’s from Florida, so he can’t. Guess he’d have to settle for some cabinet post.
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