By Rich Kozlovich
Well, here we are, Part VI, and I thought this was all done by Part IV. At this point Steve Scalise has dropped out entirely and Jim Jordan has been chosen as the Republican nominee. There were news reports there was a big blow up between Scalise and Jordan, which appears to have been false, and my guess that was an effort to smear Jordan.
Now Jordan has to consolidate his nomination with 217 votes. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer wants to consolidate support for Jordan, but would consider running only if Jordan can't get the necessary votes, and and it's looking like another battle.
There are interesting side bars playing out here.
McCarthy is now working to "clear the way for Jordan since he won the nomination on Friday, too, formally endorsing him and making calls on his behalf for the Judiciary Committee chairman to take his old gig." McCarthy has predicted confidently that Jordan will be able to consolidate the requisite 217 votes after members cool down over the weekend and spend time with their constituents and family members."
On the other hand, according to J.D Rucker, "RINOs Like John Rutherford Will Go Against Trump and the American People to Spite Matt Gaetz" quoting Rutherford aying:
"I'm a no on allowing Matt Gaetz and the other seven to win by putting their individual in as speaker."
His ilk all hate Gaetz and are still wanting McCarthy to be returned to the Speaker's chair. So, since they're a minority in the party, are they now rebels who need to be kicked out of the caucus and primaried? That's what was said about the Heroic Eight who voted against McCarthy. Well, Rucker surely thinks so saying:
Any GOP member of Congress who is against Jim Jordan, Donald Trump, and the American people must be censured by their district’s party and primaried next year. Their allegiance is to McCarthy and the Swamp, not America.
The emerging speculations over all this are amazing. What if the Republican can't get together? Is it possible the McCarthy wing can rig a deal with the Democrats and get him re-elected as Speaker. I don't think so because that would make the Democrats look like fools, after all, they initially, via Nancy Pelosi, swore they'd support him, and then stabbed him in the back. And McCarthy was shocked, shocked I tell you. Imagine that.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries offered " to enter into a bipartisan coalition to run the House of Representatives", which I thought was hilarious yesterday. I'm not so sure it's all that funny today.
The fact is, they want one of their own as Speaker, and if Republicans can't get their act together, America may get a Democrat Speaker, with a Republican House majority. If that happened, all Chairmen of all the House Committees would be taken over by Democrats, and all those investigations would disappear like the morning fog in sunlight. If you doubt that could happen, take this issue in the Texas legislature as an example of what happens where the Speaker works against the majority.
Real conservatives despise Democrat rule, but one thing everyone has to acknowledge, they know how to rule, and they rule with an iron fist allowing no dissension in the ranks. For Democrats, that's not hard because they're all leftist lunatics who all have the same totalitarian vision of high taxes, big spending, big government and massive and intrusive regulations allowing them to control every aspect of our lives.
The Republican party has no shared vision. While legitimate conservatives have a shared vision, the so-called moderates by their fence sitting nature can't define a vision, and the leftist might as well be Democrats for their vision of high taxes, big spending and big government. The party is incapable of property defining what it stands for. As a result they lack clarity, and without clarity they are incapable of a uniform vision in any form.
Again, there's reason Republicans are called the "stupid party" and the "useless party". They earned it.
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