Posted on 11/14/2023 7:53:45 PM PST by NoLibZone
Kevin McCarthy’s 269-day tenure as House speaker was spoiled by his frequent reliance on bipartisanship. At least that’s how some of his fellow Republicans saw it. The eight rogue GOP lawmakers who voted on Oct. 3 to remove the Californian from the speakership repeatedly complained that he too often turned to Democrats for help passing key legislation. The Bakersfield Republican relied on Democratic votes to suspend the nation’s debt limit in May and to stave off a government shutdown in September.
Replacing McCarthy with Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson was supposed to solve that problem — and result in more conservative governance.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
LA Times really sucks.
Speaker Johnson will not be like McCarty.
I just read at Conservative Treehouse that Trump is livid with Mike Johnson over this.
Let there be anarchy in Washington IMHO this nonsense of constantly spending money we don’t have is utterly insane.
Johnson came into his position with very little time left to accomplish anything in this matter. So he gets one pass from me on this. No more.
He’s already being like McCarthy.
Time to vacate the chair again.
Conservative Treehouse? LOL!
Maybe so. When it only takes a handful of Republicans to crossover and vote with Dems to remove a Speaker, then any Speaker is in jeopardy. The difference these days is that Republicans will actually conspire with Dems to undermine fellow Republicans.
Who the hell is McCarty?
one of the beatles
Agree, he got left with MCarthy’s crap sandwich.
Consider the source. Consider it worthless junk.
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The Republicans are going to run on cutting spending and fixing the border next time.
Deja vu
The article starts with a false premise. McCarthy was not removed for "frequent reliance on bipartisanship" he was removed because he broke his agreements with GOP House members.
I'm sure everyone is shocked that a Mockingbird Media propaganda rag like the LA Times would get that wrong.
They’ve compared, now contrast.
Meet the new boss. I’d vote to take him out.
[Fox News Chad Pergram:] A) Note that for all intents and purposes, Johnson unveiled a two-month CR. This is precisely what prompted Republicans to evict former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the Speaker’s suite.Not exactly.
McCarthy had months and months to work the funding bills, but he dawdled until the crisis was upon him. That's what prompted his eviction.
Johnson is stuck cleaning up McCarthy's mess. He's trying to minimize the use of CRs by "laddering" the spending into separate "clean" short-term CRs based on budget due dates for departments because there is no time for the back-and-forth of reconciliation committees between the two chambers.
This looks like a stop-gap plan to get past McCarthy's bungled budgets, in order to get to a place where regular order can start.
But we all have to recognize that Schumer is going to use the Rules for Radicals #4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules" against Speaker Johnson.Schumer is going to reject each and every one of the department-specific budget bills while Jeffries keeps demanding omnibus bills from the minority, until the "government shutdown date" starts looming.
Then the LAAP-dog media like Pergram will dutifully report that Johnson is doing "precisely what prompted Republicans to evict" McCarthy, trying to foment dissent in the Republicans' slim majority. Then the rest of the media will get Capitol hallway interviews with people like Gaetz, Jordan, Donalds, Greene and Boebert pushing them to explain why this is different -- setting up their reporting of a "Republican hypocrisy narrative.
And all of this will have had nothing to do with what Johnson is actually trying to do.
Johnson is trying to move to regular order by staggering the spending bills by due date (what he called "laddering" them). He's allowing a CR now for the nearest spending crisis, while working to get regular order funding for the spending that's further out.
It's the LAAP-dog media and the Democrats who will try to block Johnson so they can continue to write hit-pieces like this to keep the Republican party in disarray.
-PJ
the LET TRUMP be livid! I support and follow and would vote for Trump in a heartbeat over any other candidate, but criticizing one of the best speakers we have had in a LONG time is wrong... period!!
I have very low expectations for Johnson because my view of politicians is they’re all funded by the same money & donors, regardless of their conservative voting record and region.
The same thing happened to Trump with his appointments. He appointed Republicans that had served or would’ve served in other Republican administrations and those decisions became another smear by Trump hating partisans.
“Trump can’t pick anybody good.”
“Trump really knows how to pick them.”
“Trump is terrible at picking people.”
The truth is this, if the Trump Presidency was named Bush, McCain, or Romney, none of his picks would’ve been backstabbing malcontents. Their misbehavior and alliance with the democrats and media wouldn’t have occurred, it only happened because Trump was President, was a political outsider, and they felt they could get away with sabotage.
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