Posted on 04/17/2024 7:23:03 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Sen. Rand Paul has directed a stern warning at former President Trump, cautioning that his continued backing of Speaker Johnson could alienate a significant portion of his base.
“If Trump supports this monstrous, unpaid for foreign aid debt buster, he will lose the very supporters who comprise his vanguard. Mark my words,” Sen. Rand Paul warned.
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Gaetz explained his reasoning in a recent interview. He said that when he called for McCarthy to be ousted, he had done the math and was confident it would be successful. He says that the situation today, with the GOP majority having dwindled, is different from back then and he’s not certain it wouldn’t backfire. MTG’s reasoning seems to be similar. Likewise with Trump.
It should be noted that, even conservative Republican Congressmembers seem to be chasing a red herring with the demand for border wall spending. I’ve seen no serious measures to pass a border security bill that would actually have teeth and force Biden to secure the border. I’m not even sure such legislation is possible. With the border crisis, money is irrelevant. You can throw all the money in the world at it, and not a thing will change except that Biden will have some more money to waste. If Biden (or whoever is running the show) is intent on ignoring the border, more money isn’t going to change that in the least.
Good point.
Ok thanks. That sounds like an admission the first time was a screw up, that left us in a worse position than we were, to the point we can’t do anything now but bend over and take it. Gaetz should have kept his powder dry for a moment like this, when it was truly needed.
Not necessarily. We’re certainly no worse off than we were with McCarthy, who would have brought these bills for a vote long ago. As far as replacing McCarthy with Johnson, I never said Johnson was the end all and be all, just that he was an improvement over McCarthy, which he was at the time.
Replacing McCarthy was a move in the right direction. It has shifted the House caucus’s center of mass towards the M
AGA coalition. A number of RINO’s announced their retirements soon after. Unfortunately some have tried to sabotage the party on their way out.
Not at all. We lost all our individual spending bills which were going to finally replace the Omnibus. And the last bill that McCarthy presented was the last one we’ve had with any spending cuts. It’s been all downhill since then with Johnson, and we’re now stuck with this loser since Gaetz already spent our one magic bullet.
This has actually been the worst Congress I can ever remember. If they wanted to get rid of McCarthy, they should have had it ironed out who would replace him, and not with this clown.
“This clown” was the best they could do at the time. Does anyone seriously believe that McCarthy could have been replaced at the time with someone like Biggs or Massie, let alone MTG or Donalds?
That was always unrealistic. Johnson is a place holder whose election to the speakership can’t be judged on legislation alone. McCarthy was as establishment as they get, and had way too much power in the GOP. He was the band-aid that had to be ripped off if things are ever going to improve. He’s been replaced with someone who started out well, but who’s turned into a RINO almost indistinguishable from McCarthy. But that’s only because people ignore the kind of destructive power McCarthy wielded behind the scenes.
Replacing McCarthy with Johnson was just the next step in the battle. His time to be replaced will come. It may even happen in the coming days or weeks, but if it does, it will happen behind the scenes and only become public when Johnson announces his retirement. But, forcing a House vote at this time, would be tactically foolish. Rand Paul and those cheering him ignore such considerations.
That's concerning. Do you have a link to the page, etc?
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