Gaetz on Speaker vote: ‘Long live Speaker Scalise’

The Hill ^ | 10/11/2023 | TARA SUTER

[ChicagoConservative27]

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) celebrated the House GOP’s nomination of Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) for Speaker on Wednesday.

“I’m excited for him,” Gaetz said in a video clip posted to C-SPAN’s account on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I can’t wait to go vote for Steve Scalise. Long live Speaker Scalise.”

Gaetz previously said he would be pleased with either Scalise or House Judicial Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as the nominee for Speaker. However, he didn’t officially endorse either contender.

“I want to hear both of their specific plans on spending and on single-subject appropriations bills,” Gaetz said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

Well how about them apples

[gov_bean_ counter]

Not so fast…

[TBP]

Scalise is just a baby step more conservative than McCarthy, no noticeable improvement, and now we don’t have the January agreement.

[Reno89519]

I would like to hear a bit about aid to Ukraine.

[AnthonySoprano]

[Lurker]

“and on single-subject appropriations bills.”

McCarthy promised that. Didn’t happen.

L

[Joann37]

They might as well have nominated Mitt Romney.

[Joann37]

I saw you posted that that on the other thread. Wow! did that ever change my mind about Scalise – – I didn’t know that much about him before but that picture alone should be a dealbreaker.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Seriously I dont get it..Scalise is McCarthy 2.0..heck Kinzinger already endorsed him saying he will be “Good for Ukraine” cause ya know, Ukraine is obviously the most important thing ever/sarc..so how long will it take for Gaetz to go after Scalise and throw him out of the leadership I give it a week

[hcmama]

FR for the past two weeks:
"Matt Gaetz: Savior of the Republic!"

LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!

[MNJohnnie]

Well now we need 113 primary opponents

[hcmama]

"They might as well have nominated Mitt Romney."

Or kept McCarthy!

[FreeReign]

Scalise is just a baby step more conservative than McCarthy, no noticeable improvement, and now we don’t have the January agreement.

As if the January agreement would have mattered, if we weren't going to use it in the case of McCarthy?

[Alberta's Child]

It’s bad enough that Gaetz sold out to the GOP establishment here.

What’s going to piss a lot of Freepers off more than anything else is how little (if anything) it cost to buy his support.

[Yo-Yo]

Jim Jordan offers to nominate Steve Scalise for speaker on House floor

[Williams]

Do you know that Justice Scalia’s best friend in the world was Justice Ginsburg?

[AnthonySoprano]

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That can’t be explained away.

He’s definitely not Pro-Trump.

I have other troubling statements made by Scalise.

[Jane Long]

👍🏻👍🏻

[Williams]

Oh for God’s sake you only had 8 Republican votes against McCarthy how much instability do you think we can stand.
The entire Republican party does not consist of Matt Gaetz and even he is going to support Scalise.
We only have the tiniest majority and we’re putting it at risk it’s time to govern and stop playing games.

[Williams]

Well then you better do a lot more work to elect extremely conservative republicans because right now we don’t have them.
And as for Steve Scalise this man took bullets for the republican party and conservativism and that’s enough for me.