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
McConnell & McDaniel are Senators, they have nothing to do with the House..............
Nothing like blowing your own horn, eh Boebert?
Without MY vote..
Without MY effort..
Sheesh.
Funny how I didn’t hear them whine about their criminal cohorts when they were committing crimes against children:
Democratic Illinois Congressman, Mel Reynolds resigned from Congress after he was convicted of statutory rape of a 16-year-old campaign volunteer.
Democratic New York Congressman, Fred Richmond, was arrested in Washington D.C. for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old boy.
Democratic State Senator from Alaska, George Jacko, was found guilty of sexual harassment of an underage legislative page.
Democratic State Representative candidate for Colorado, Andrew Myers, was convicted for possession of child pornography and enticing children.
Democratic Illinois Congressman, Gus Savage was investigated by the Democrat-controlled House Committee on Ethics for attempting to rape an underage female Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire. The Committee concluded that while the events did occur his apology was sufficient and took no further action.
Personally, I think that this (ahem) lady is a loose cannon and should be avoided at all costs....
Please go back and read the article. Boebert was not talking against Matt Gaetz, she was warning that there is still a threat against him from the RINOS and Democrats..
“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.So, doesn't that make you the loose cannon going off halfcocked?
No fricking joke!
You seem to have forgotten that Mittens (The so-called Senator) condemned Gaetz’ actions as being disruptive and chaotic to the process and the GOP.
Now the GOP Rinos are moving to ally with the Dems to EXPEL Gaetz from the house.
Are you not up on current events?
Oh and while you’re here schilling for the uniparty would you kindly donate to the free republic so you can keep your paychecks coming? K-thx!
https://freerepublic.com/donate/
You seem to have forgotten that Mittens (The so-called Senator) condemned Gaetz’ actions as being disruptive and chaotic to the process and the GOP.
Now the GOP Rinos are moving to ally with the Dems to EXPEL Gaetz from the house.
Are you not up on current events?
Oh and while you’re here schilling for the uniparty would you kindly donate to the free republic so you can keep your paychecks coming? K-thx!
https://freerepublic.com/donate/
“How can democrats vote to expel Gaetz for doing what they did?”
Because that’s the way it works when they control every institution in the country.
“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,”
Why don’t they just do it, and make it official.
There is no “reforming” this Regime.
It needs to collapse so that something better can be built.
Gaetz has all the right enemies.
go away.
Only the voters can do this.
Pelosi voted against McCarthy. Let’s have a vote to expel her.
The swamp is panicked and I think the smell of desperation hangs heavy over the nation’s corrupt capital…
Try to find anything that I have stated on behalf of the uniparty. That has never happened a never will.
I donated $400.00 in the first quarter and that is enough for me right now.
Still like your party?
True, there are ways around it, as long as he relocates before the electoral college vote I think.
How do you expel a duly elected person when he has t committed a crime?
Kind of like trying to get rid of the sheriff. Unless they’ve done something criminal how can it be done?
Here’s a sad truth…..
Budgets only require a simple majority, right?
Republicans in the House could have actually done their primary job and in the 9 months that they had the majority, they could have come up with a fiscally responsible balanced budget, one that didn’t increase the deficit, no BS money on researching booze and Chinese hookers, one that the people could support.
Done it all without any I out from the democrats.
Presented it and then let the Democrats, the crooks in the Senate and Biden shoot it down.
They could have made themselves legit.
Nope. Status quo. Did nothing. And we are here.
Primary everyone.
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