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Kevin McCarthy: I’ll ‘fight to win’
WMAL.com ^ | September 29, 2015 | CNN, via WMAL.com

Posted on 09/30/2015 4:07:11 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is pitching himself for the role of the next speaker of the House and says he’s the leader who will know how to pick his battles — and bring everyone to the table.

McCarthy laid out his vision for the speakership Tuesday in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead,” saying he wouldn’t shy away from a fight, but he wouldn’t enter one that was futile.

“I’m willing to fight but I want to fight to win,” McCarthy said when asked about the call by some Republicans to force a government shutdown fight in an effort to defund Planned Parenthood.

McCarthy said he supports a “bottom-up” approach to leading, where Republicans first put forward their policies and plans, use committees to do the groundwork, and then let that effort result in winning a vote on a policy.

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The California Republican, who is currently John Boehner’s No. 2, has a large base of support in his effort to win the speakership and is the clear front-runner for the position.

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He has been conducting a disciplined outreach effort to recruit support for his run, and he’s positioning himself as an inclusive leader.

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He continued to say that the “culture” he’d set as speaker is that “everybody gets a voice” — even the opposing side.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: clone; congres; congress; gope; kevinmccarthy; mccarthy; republican; speaker
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All kinds of red flags with Boehner's clone, but once again, it looks like the fix is in.
1 posted on 09/30/2015 4:07:11 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
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Kevin is now a confirmed liar... and with such ease.


2 posted on 09/30/2015 4:08:26 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Timber Rattler

It is incredible that this adulterer thinks he has any business being speaker or that anyone would support him. He is the worst of GOPe and should instead be asked to resign from Congress.s


3 posted on 09/30/2015 4:08:32 AM PDT by Reno89519 (American Lives Matter! US Citizen, Veteran, Conservative, Republican. I vote. Trump 2016.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Win for who? Democrats, that’s who.


4 posted on 09/30/2015 4:09:23 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Reno89519

His “base of support” is made up of Boehner’s cronies, who don’t want to change a damned thing.


5 posted on 09/30/2015 4:10:37 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Timber Rattler

Deja vu all over again?


6 posted on 09/30/2015 4:10:45 AM PDT by ryan71 (Bibles, Beans and Bullets)
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To: Reno89519
Yep, and how anyone cannot see that as a recipe for blackmail is beyond me:

Is Member of Republican Leadership Kevin McCarthy Having An Affair With Rep. Renee Ellmers?

7 posted on 09/30/2015 4:14:05 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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Yep. Far too many supposedly conservative congressmen are not conservatives at all. They vote for guys like this and then meekly play to their base by speaking and voting in a different direction.


8 posted on 09/30/2015 4:14:24 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Timber Rattler

what’s the difference between majority leader and speaker?


9 posted on 09/30/2015 4:15:46 AM PDT by dp0622
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The majority leader is the head of the Republican Caucus, while the Speaker is the head of the House of Representatives as a whole, and second in the line of succession for the presidency (after the Senate President Pro Tempore) in the event that the president and vice president are both incapacitated during an emergency.

Speaker of the House of Representatives

10 posted on 09/30/2015 4:27:29 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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Dem lite?
Boehner lite?
McCarthy is not the answer, and if the party establishment tries to foist this clown upon us then we will continue to buck the establishment within the GOP.
Ya want this idealogical war to ccontinue?
McCarthy will do just that.


11 posted on 09/30/2015 4:28:25 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: dp0622

I can’t help but laugh at all politicians when they use the term “fight”, “I’ll fight for this, I’ll fight for that, I’ll fight to win, etc., etc.. IF they fail to fight to WIN, why the hell get into a fight in the first place. Most of that is pure rhetoric anyway.


12 posted on 09/30/2015 4:29:34 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Timber Rattler

Kabuki Theatre. Hey, Kevin, if you have to SAY that you’ll fight, you’ve already lost. A true fighter doesn’t have to ‘prove’ it with words.


13 posted on 09/30/2015 4:35:11 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: DaveA37

F.A. Hayek wrote about politicians who say they will “fight” for you. It means that the government is taking your money, and the politician is promising to go to the capital and get pork for his state or district.

The answer, of course, is for the government not to take the money in the first place.


14 posted on 09/30/2015 4:36:06 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (Beau Biden's funeral, attended by Bp. Malooly, Card. McCarrick, and Papal Nuncio, Abp. Vigano.)
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To: Timber Rattler

The Establishment has not learned a DAMN thing!


15 posted on 09/30/2015 4:36:52 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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what’s the difference between majority leader and speaker?

Speaker of the House.

Majority Leader.

One heads the entire House.

The other heads the majority party.

16 posted on 09/30/2015 4:37:27 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: . IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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NOW I get it. took a while to sink in :)

boehne did a terrible job of leading the whole house.

are they trying to replace him with another rino?


17 posted on 09/30/2015 4:41:59 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: Timber Rattler

The Republican Playbook is nothing more than a collection of cliches.

Meaningless


18 posted on 09/30/2015 4:44:04 AM PDT by Peter W. Kessler
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To: Reno89519

And she’s not even that good looking. If you’re gonna sin, at least go all out.


19 posted on 09/30/2015 4:46:38 AM PDT by dp0622
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are they trying to replace him with another rino?

McCarthy appears to fit that definition.

20 posted on 09/30/2015 4:47:54 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: . IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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