McCarthy is the probably the only possible Republican who can get elected Speaker without Democrat votes to put them over the top.
If people don't like McCarthy (bad as he is) , they are really going to hate whoever else gets elected, because it only goes worse after him . It's looking like the Freedom Caucus needs to face up to the fact that they need to get behind McCarthy and have a seat at the table or get. a disaster for speaker and be frozen out of power and marginalized for the next two years.
We live in a divided country and many Congressional Republicans will prefer to collaborate with Democrats than side with Conservatives. And enough House Republicans hate the Freedoom Caucus Republicans way more than they dislike their Democrat colleagues.
Sucks to be us, but that's the sad reality of the world we live in. We are dealing with the worst possible leadership at one of the most critical periods in American history.
An even sadder reality is that the US is looking frighteningly like Venezuela was at the start of the Hugo Chavez regime. With McCarthy, Conservative Republicans at least have a chance to push back as hard as McCarthy will let them otherwise, we may end up having guys like Peter Schiff running things despite the election and we will be really screwed.
McCarthy’s weakness is not so much as his positions but his firmness in fighting for them.
Andy Biggs fights, hard, and holds his ground.
I say rally around Andy. There is still a month to pick a leader, and I do mean a leader.
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