McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part VIII

By Rich Kozlovich

Well, waddayaknow. I'm gonna finally be able to end this series, and it only took eight parts. The Republicans have now finally picked a Speaker of the House.  Imagine that. 

I've seen over and over again claims that Gaetz worked McCarthy's ouster with the Democrats.  Well, there seems to be a lot of smoke, and yet, I don't see a fire.  Not one Democrat has come forward to claim Gaetz tried working a deal with them.  Not one Democrat has claimed they were in cahoots with Gaetz and the Heroic Eight.  Not one!  Why?  If there was an ember of truth in these claims of a Gaetz/Democrat collusion to dump McCarthy why hasn't it burst into a conflagration of media outrage?  Gaetz certainly couldn't offer them anything because he didn't have the power to offer them anything, and they knew it.

The big knock on the Heroic Eight was they didn't have a plan.  That's false. I do wish everyone would walk away from this irritating meme, because, actually, they did!

On the other hand, we do know there was a McCarthy/Pelosi collusion for her to support McCarthy, and as Speaker, he could offer the Democrats a lot, and he would have because they would've owned him lock, stock,  and barrel.   What was McCarthy's plan, who's the traitor?  

After Steve Scalise Jim Jordan was chosen as their nominee but lost after three votes because  25 Republicans blocked him.  Why?    Because Jim Jordan is a threat to the "Swamp", the system of reckless spending, borrowing, regulations, and "the traditions, the hierarchy, and the old-guard beliefs'"  So, were those 25 traitors?  That's what Patricia McCarthy called them saying:  

The uniparty, that deep state bureaucracy that rules over us all, determined that the people should not have the Speaker of their choice.   A clear majority of Republicans wanted Rep. Jim Jordan to replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy for good and obvious reasons.  But twenty-five members of the House GOP revealed themselves to be petty, sniveling, chumps who decided that the people should not have a say.  

•  Some of the Republicans Who Voted 'No' to Jim Jordan as Speaker May Have Vested Interests to Keep Him Out 

Traitors was what the Heroic Eight were called when they voted to kick McCarthy out.  Everyone says: Be Reasonable! But their definition of being reasonable is to go along to get along. If that really was the definition of reasonable, I would like to see one time when being reasonable ever overcame deeply entrenched and determined forces.  In short "to be reasonable" is to surrender!  But they were only eight votes.  Remember, it was the Democrats who voted him out, and that's really rich.  I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that.   

Then Patricia McCarthy discusses  Tom Emmer, a major RINO and Never Trumper who: 

"As head of the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2022, he reportedly implored Republican candidates in the midterms to distance themselves from Trump. And he’s been telling GOP donors that he won’t support Trump’s 2024 presidential primary campaign. “You can’t have the majority leader of the Republican Party being very anti-Trump and against his agenda,” one source close to Trump tells TIME. “That’s just not going to work. There’s no trust there.”

And he had the nerve to call President Trump for an endorsement.  Four hours later he dropped out.  

•   Trump Opposes McCarthy’s Stooge, GOP Whip Emmer, for Speaker

However, one has to ask, why was this RINO chosen in the first place?  Kevin McCarthy!  

Ex-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is conspiring with Establishment Republicans to install an anti-Trump, anti-MAGA Speaker. The former House Speaker has thrown his support behind Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) in the speakership race. McCarthy and Emmer worked together to pull funding from pro-Trump congressional candidates – a move that many blame for the 2022 midterm disaster. What was supposed to be a red wave turned out to be a trickle.

Make no mistake, Congressional Republicans are at war with their base.  And Matt Gaetz even claims  Kevin McCarthy Worked Behind the Scenes to ‘KNIFE’ Other Speaker Candidates.   So, who are the traitors?

Now, the Republicans have finally chosen a Speaker, Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, and now,  after voting against McCarthy, and all the glee the Democrats expressed is now coming back to haunt them.  It's hard to understand just how stupid and petty these nutrolls actually are.  I'm guessing like most people, I've never heard of him, and as it turns out, it appears he's as conservative as Jim Jordan, but not as flamboyant. 

Trapper apparently knows him and has followed him for many years saying his ‘ideology is very far to the right’.  Which brings me to ask, did you hear all those explosions?  What explosions you ask? 

When Mike Johnson claimed this was part of God’s plan, leftist minds exploded all over the nation, and they've gone into melt down mode, "with Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign strongly condemned the election of Johnson.....“MAGA Mike Johnson’s ascension to the speakership cements the extreme MAGA takeover of the House Republican Conference,” Ammar Moussa, a spokesman for the Biden campaign".

• Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) called Johnson an “insurrectionist.”
• Rep Ilhan Omar (D-MN) labeled him a “MAGA Extremist” and wrote that his “achievements” include seeking an “abortion ban” and voting “against LGBTQ+ rights.”  
• Schiff discouraged voters from doing their own research and googling the new Speaker.Let me make it simple: Johnson is a hard-right, pro-Trump, leading election denier in the House,” he wrote. “Sadly, this is what passes for Speaker material in the Republican conference.’   
• “Introducing extremist GOP Speaker nominee Mike Johnson,” wrote Ocasio-Cortez. “He was a key architect of the Jan 6th strategy to overturn the US election.”

They really dislike him because as "political analyst Gloria Borger" claimed:

"You know, I think he is a person who’s hard to demonize. You know, it's very easy to demonize somebody like a Jim Jordan, who’s a firebrand. He's out there, he's fighting. And then Donald Trump can demonize an Emmer because he didn't believe the election was rigged. 

But you had this kind of, I don’t use the word 'milquetoast,' that's not quite the right word, he's a serious person, who is not prone to getting in big, huge fights with people. He is known as a listener, I was told. He is hugely conservative, but he doesn't wear it on his sleeve all the time. So he can get along with moderates and listen to them. And it will be interesting to see what happens with Ukraine aid, for example. But, you know, he’s not the devil incarnate."

So, they really hate him because they will find in hard to demonize him?  Remarkable, but neither, truth, honesty, morality, integrity, or hypocrisy ever stood in the way of the Democrats.

He's been called one the smartest and most principled members of Congress, and he's got his hands full with all that's on the table.  Will he compromise?  Yes, but there's a difference between compromise and capitulation.  In a compromise both parties get something of real value.  The McCarthy wing gets almost nothing and amounts to a capitulation.  Is this is the end of the McCarthy, Ryan, and Boehner, era of Republican Speaker?  We'll see. 

In my opinion, this was the only outcome that could occur.  The real benefit to all his is now the nation is far more insightful of who stands for what, and many of the Republicans have been exposed as CINO's, Conservatives in Name Only, and I'm expecting to see a lot of them primaried in 2024.

In his article, Are We Winning or Losing?, Jeffrey  Tucker states: 

"The past four years have taught us much about the workings of the world that we did not know. The real rulers of the political social order who once hid in the shadows came out into the open".

He couldn't be more correct.  This Israel/Hamas War, and the Battle For Speaker of the House has done a lot of good exposing organizations and people for who and what they are.  Heterodoxy isn't for the faint of heart. It takes guts, smarts, tolerance, patience, knowledge, a really tough hide, and the willingness to be unliked for long periods of time. That's what we saw. Gaetz and his group were the Heroic Eight. Everything else is a red herring.

If Gaetz is re-elected he's going be one of the most powerful men in the House, even if the House goes Democrat. I know three things for sure.  Persistence, courage, and the willingness to be unliked as long as it takes will take a toll on their adversaries.  All of whom lack all three. 

Leaders lead, and often times that means challenging the conventional wisdom, and those who've benefited from that "wisdom" are outraged when someone like Gaetz and the Heroic Eight stand as rocks in the current.  CINO's need the support of the group, the man rowing against the tide needs only truth, and guts, and Gaetz has exposed just how badly McCarthy and the RINO's have been conducting the "peoples" business. 

This Israeli/Hamas War is going to drive a lot more people to the right as they're seeing just how contemptuous and disgusting the Democrats and the left in general are over the horrors heaped on the Israeli civilian population, especially the children.  That's heartbreaking, and that heart break is going to translate into change, and that change of heart is going to benefit people like, Gaetz.  

We need to thank Gaetz, because no matter what happens now, McCarthy is gone because of him, his power is gone, his ability to sway events is gone, and his Never Trump RINO supporters are badly diminished.

• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part I
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part II
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part III
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part IV
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part V
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part VI
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part VII

McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part VII

By Rich Kozlovich 

 Derek Hunter, is a writer for Townhall.com for whom I have little respect. He's a snot, and I think his analyses are at best shallow.  He wrote this piece, The Party Of Idiots, outlining just what a disaster Biden has been to the nation, then went on to criticize those who wanted to do something about it saying:

The “geniuses” behind ousting the Speaker of the House didn’t think anything beyond their personal fundraising and cable news appearances, and even that might be giving them too much credit.  

If you want something to happen, you should have a plan to make it happen.........Not Matt Gaetz, Nancy Mace, and the other morons who saw an opportunity but didn’t have the cognitive skills to decide whether they should take it.............. Does anyone believe either of those people have thought through the consequences of their actions at any point in their lives, or do they strike you as the “I don’t care, I want to do it anyway” type? If you’ve heard the stories, you know the answer.

 

"Gaetz, Mace, and the other morons who saw an opportunity but didn’t have the cognitive skills to decide whether they should take it.......... Does anyone believe either of those people have thought through the consequences of their actions at any point in their lives, or do they strike you as the “I don’t care, I want to do it anyway” type? If you’ve heard the stories, you know the answer."

 

He went on to further insult Gaetz and the Heroic Eight, and he's not the only one.  I picked Hunter because I think he ranks among the most shallow and obnoxious, and consistently so.   But I see this pattern over and over again by seemingly conservative writers on seemingly conservative news sites, including Michael Barone who in this article, The Gathering Storm, outlines what a disaster Joe Biden and his administration has been to the nation, including this Israel/Hamas War (which will be far reaching down the road) but just can't help himself and slams the Heroic Eight saying:

 

America is bitterly split on partisan lines, with a narrowly Republican House (which nonsensically ousted its speaker).....

 

It was nonsense? Really?  Well, that's part of the problem with intelligent people who made a career of being a Washington insider.  Loss of perspective, with an inability to be the rock in the current against the conventional wisdom, which unlike traditional wisdom, has yet to stand the test of time.  

 

"Now isn't the right time", is an unendingly and irritating meme I've heard forever dealing with every controversial issue that surfaces.  Well, I keep asking: If not now, when?   For those who spout that, the right time is never.  And, since I didn't see a lot of people jumping into the boat that's rowing against the tide, so, I think it wise to ask:  If not Gaetz, who?  For these detractors, just as there is no right time, there is no right person.   And finally, was it necessary?  

 

The answers are as follows: Now is the time, Gaetz was the only one with the courage and willingness to take the beating and do it, and yes, it was necessary!

 

The detractors claim the Heroic Eight didn't have a plan.  Is that true?   No!  Their plan was to force McCarthy out and force the House Republicans to do something about the Republican leadership that can only be called less than stellar in their performance in stopping this spending, borrowing, regulatory insanity Biden, the Democrats, and the CINO's (Conservative in Name Only) in the Senate and the House have permitted to go on.  All of whom were more than willing to allow all that to get worse. Chaos?  No!  National bankruptcy is chaos, not fiscal restraint and the willingness to get rid of those who fail the nation. 

 

Did they have a planned conclusion? No, but they did have a hope this would set the stage for a positive conclusion.  There are always unintended consequences in any effort no one can plan for, so a solution was going to have to be up to the Republican caucus, and attributing false motives to them is nothing more than a cheap shot.   

 

The fact is, if you can't, or won't define things properly, you can't have understanding. If you don't have understanding, you cannot have a common vision.  Without a common vision, you have chaos, and chaos wasn't created by ousting McCarthy.  Ousting McCarthy is what exposed the chaos that already exists.

 

The Heroic Eight created a crisis, and crises force evaluations.  Evaluations force conclusions, conclusions force action.   With that in mind, let's do just a little history here as to who really is responsible for all this starting with the fact McCarthy betrayed the deals he made with conservative members by wanting to pass a Continuing Resolution that would continue to fund an outrageous and massively bloated 2023 budget.  

The Freedom Caucus kept warning they were in opposition to that, and he had nine months to work at passing legislation to avoid another last minute CR to avoid shutdown.  He didn't do that because he was far more comfortable making backroom deals with the Democrats than he was with his own party.  Make no mistake about it, as we've seen by their reaction to his ouster, a large number of Republican CINO's were more than happy to go along with that.  All more than willing to carry the water for the White House, and the Democrats, and in most cases in violation of what they promised their constituents.  There outrage is contemptible. As Bob Maistros states: 

 

This is not moderation, it's venality, duplicity, and corruption......Because even the hopeless libs at Brookings admit our budgetary trajectory is “unsustainable” – a fiscal IED with mid-century interest payments projected to exceed even the unfunded megatrillions for soon-to-be-insolvent Social Security and Medicare.

But just as important, reclaiming the power of the purse at any cost is vital to confronting straight-on the radical progressive and elitist cabal and avoiding the endless series of train wrecks toward which it has set America barreling...........To advance this overthrow of democratic norms, the ruling cabal has blockaded every conceivable political, economic, social, cultural, and judicial avenue for reform. Including, yes, elections. After the certifiably unlawful tactics employed in the 2020 contest and the equally suspicious sputtering of the anticipated 2022 “Red Wave,” can anyone count on the 2024 vote to turn the tide?

Resistance must start someplace – and a good place to start is Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s maneuver to unceremoniously force McCarthy from power via a motion to vacate, rinsing and repeating if necessary until the desired effect is achieved.

I was heavily involved in my industry's trade associations, and over the years I've been a bit confrontational.  I prided myself in always being unfailingly polite, but never unwilling to be the rock in the current.  I was often told I needed to be reasonable.  And my response has always been; "When have I ever not been reasonable?"  The problem with that?  Definition!  The dictionary defines reasonable as having sound judgement based on facts, reason, and logic.  Detractors defined it as the willingness to go along to get along.  Then, if that's the accepted definition, name one time when being "reasonable" ever overcame monolithic corruption.

So again, I ask:  If not now, when?  If not Gaetz, who?  Answer?  Now was the time, and Gaetz was the man needed. Liked or disliked, he did what needed to be done, and he's paid a heavy price.  But, as in all things, there are surprises.   

It appears McCarthy blames his ousting as Speaker on Democrats and if there's chaos, it's the Democrats who caused it. Surprise!  And furthermore ...... surprise again....... McCarthy is supporting Jim Jordan and says he'll do an excellent job and is "working........to get it done, " saying he is confident the Ohio congressman will secure enough votes to win in a floor vote."

He also told reporters that a new House Speaker will be elected “shortly” and that things are “going well.”  “They tried to make a motion in there to bring me back, and I just told them, ‘No, let’s not do that. Let’s walk through this and have an election,'” McCarthy said. “And I think Jim Jordan would do an excellent job.”

Okay, now, I think I've properly defended the action to dump McCarthy, but this is Washington, and nothing is ever as it appears, and no one can be trusted.  We seem to have a fly in the butter, actually two flies.  Surprise! 

While a couple of days ago I thought it was hilarious when House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries offered to "help" the Republicans by creating a "bipartisanship" leadership, all for the good of the nation to prevent "extremists from dictating the agenda".  Remarkable!  A radical extremist calling someone extreme, and I'm not laughing now, because it seems that's actually being discussed with Republicans, and according to him, today they're going to "formalize" those discussions.  With whom?  

Well first of all, we do understand, a discussion isn't someone mumbling to themself.  There has to be more than one party to a "discussion", and political discussions follow outlines of logic, reasoning, and setting standards of one kind or another.  It's also clear there are sufficient CINO's in the Republican party, and the House of Representatives, who would be willing to entertain anything the Democrats offer in order to make that happen.  

In point of fact, there are sufficient CINO's in the House to actually elect a Democrat, which is what Jeffries really wants.  It's a mess, and make no mistake, if the Republicans agree to this the 2024 Republican primaries will be filled with people who will be joining Liz Chaney and Adam Kinzinger in retirement.  Unless they decide to run Chaney or Kinzinger for Speaker of the House, and that might not be all that far-fetched.   I think the Democrats would vote for either of them en-masse.  

To get elected the Speaker needs 218 votes, and there are 212 Democrats.  How hard would it be to get six Republican CINO's to roll over and betray their party, their constituents, and the nation?  Even changing party affiliations and becoming Democrats?  I'm betting it wouldn't be that hard at all!   

If you're wondering how that would turn out take a look at what's going on in the Texas legislature, where a Republican legislature has been totally unmanned by a corrupt Republican Speaker of the House who gave chairmanships to Democrats and undermines every conservative effort by the legislature.  It's not a pretty sight.  

As Jim Hoft states:

If this happens it will be the end of the Republican party.  The conservative base of the party have put up with neglect and abuse from lawmakers for years. If the elites nix Jim Jordan’s vote for Speaker – that will confirm the party’s disgust for its conservative voting base.  

Surprise!!!

• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part I
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part II
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part III
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part IV
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part V
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part VI

The House Speaker Conflict Has an Upside

Sometimes it's worth the fight.

By Leesa K. Donner October 14, 2023 @ Liberty Nation News

The prevailing narrative regarding Republican infighting over choosing a new House Speaker is that the GOP is a holy mess. Once Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was given the boot, there was a lot of backroom brawling to elect a new leader for the lower chamber with all due haste. It appeared and was announced that the party would be willing to coalesce around Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA). However, the hue and cry got louder when that went down in flames: “Why can’t the GOP get its act together and be like those in the Democratic Party?” Republicans did eventually pick another speaker candidate, Ohio’s Jim Jordan, but they’re far from unified behind him.

Here are a few reasons and a bit of analysis as to why the seeming chaos may serve a good purpose. As everyone’s mother used to say, “Comparisons are odious.” This is undoubtedly true when assessing the two major US political parties. They believe and espouse different things and are dissimilar at their core. Painting with a broad brush, one could say the Democrats more often elevate the collective while Republicans place more emphasis on the individual. This is not absolute, but the argument can be made that those who put an R after their name think, act, and respond to situations in a distinctive way.

It’s easy to criticize one side when a food fight is underway, but it’s crucial to remember why the battle was joined in the first place. Many have speculated it was a personal vendetta between Florida’s Matt Gaetz and McCarthy. We cannot know if that is true, but we can look at what Gaetz said regarding why he wanted the California Republican out.

The Florida Republican said he was sick and tired of “continuing resolutions” and felt strongly that the House should be forced to do its job and put together a comprehensive budget as they are obliged to do by law. Speaking on the House floor, Gaetz said:

“A vote for a continuing resolution is a vote to continue the Green New Deal, a vote to continue inflationary spending, and the most troubling of fashions, a vote for a continuing resolution is a vote to continue the election interference of Jack Smith.”

Gaetz and his compatriots sought single-subject spending bills instead of bloated omnibus packages. As Liberty Nation’s Jim Fite clarified, “To them, the way to force both sides of the fiscal and political fence to balance the budget is to only vote for single-subject bills and simply refuse to support anything else, no matter the cost.” Since the US is currently 33 trillion (and counting) in debt, this does seem to be a noble cause.

House Speaker: The Pitfalls of Unity

The national media has primarily aimed its guns at the fight and avoided the reason for it. This type of superficial coverage is their stock and trade. They maintain the Democrats are organized and unified. Well, that can be said of all dictatorships, can’t it? Unity doesn’t necessarily make for good policy; it just means that everyone is willing to go along with others in their group. Viewed another way, this kind of Stepford Wives behavior is unsettling. Why think for yourself when all you need is to do what you are told?

There is a point to be made in favor of holding to one’s principles, even if it means a battle must be joined. Yes, conflict can be chaotic and ugly. The easy thing to do is focus on the battle rather than the reason for the war.

The founders of this American experiment purposely set up a system that is often slow and messy. They constructed several branches of the governance tree for good reason.  Efficiency and group think are often enemies of reason and logic. Yes, a republic can be plodding and unweildy – but perhaps that’s as it should be.

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McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part VI

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. 

• Part I,  Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V 

McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part V

By Rich Kozlovich

So far I've published four pieces on this, Part I,  Part II, Part III, and Part IV.  When I finished Part IV I was confident there would be no Part V because Steve Scalise looked like he'd be their pick. He has an impressive record, and as far as can tell, he's well liked among Republicans, and is in no way as divisive as McCarthy.   

Well, now, here we have Par V, and there may even be a Part VI, and more.  As I'm watching this unfold I couldn't help but think about Obama saying you can never underestimate Joe Biden's ability to screw things up!  Well, chuckling, rolling my eyes, and shaking my head:  Never overestimate the Republicans ability to get things done.

Initially Scalise won the nomination with 113 votes, but even though Jim Jordan ended up supporting Scalise, he received 99 votes, and it appears there are too many, surprisingly, too many "never Scalise" members.  By Thursday, it was made clear he couldn't win a floor vote, so, according to Rebecca Downs it appears Steve Scalise is dropping out of the speakers race saying:

"It’s been quite a journey. And there’s still a long way to go. I just share with my colleagues that I’m withdrawing my name as a candidate for the speaker designee,"....... "This country is counting on us to come back together. This House of Representatives needs a Speaker and we need to open up the house again. But clearly, not everybody is there. And there’s still schisms that have to get resolved."

Now it's being reported Republicans will meet today at 10:00 AM to discuss what to do, and it appears Jordan is back in the race, but it also seems clear there will be no vote this week. There's a reason why the Republicans are called the "stupid party", and the "worthless party".  They earned it. 

 

McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part IV

It's the Governance Stupid!

 

By Rich Kozlovich

 

I discussed in Part I how all this talk about dumping McCarthy would create chaos was a load of horsepucky, and why.  Then Part II dealt with all the actual chaos that was created by these McCarthyite and McConnell CINO's (Conservative in Name Only).  I think Part III was especially good as I think I clearly established all the rants against Gaetz were immaterial logical fallacies and none of what was said abrogated the facts regarding the charges against McCarthy.  McCarthy's actions were the issue, not anything else. If Gaetz lied about what McCarthy did or didn't, then they should have exposed him, they didn't.  McCarthy was guilty as charged.  That was the issue, and everything else was a red herring fallacy.  

 

As a result its been posited Rep. Gaetz might lose his seat in Congress in the next election over this.  Make no mistake, the CINO leadership is going to do all it can to dislodge him. His reaction?  If he loses his seat, the that's okay because ousting McCarthy is ‘absolutely’ worth it. 

 

While those eight Republican heroes who voted to oust McCarthy are being called rebels, they view McCarthy and his ilk as the rebels.  After all what else would you call those who ignore the Constitution, and violate the trust of the base with their twisted agenda. 

Promises matter by John Green says:

The lesson is that in a system which depends on good-faith negotiations, integrity is important, and promises matter. When men working within that system lack honor, agreements aren’t agreements, and deals aren’t deals. Without honor, the system can’t work -- and hasn’t been working for many years.

McCarthy learned the hard way about Democrat promises, which I think is remarkably telling.  Nancy lied to him!  He was shocked, shocked I tell you. 

 

How could he have been in Washington all these years, and in leadership roles and not know the Democrats lie....a lot.... because they have no stable moral foundations, and they will never let hypocrisy stand in their way. 

 

 Now we're seeing a new battle emerge for Speaker.   There were two top contenders, Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise, both far more conservative than McCarthy.  As for talk McCarthyites were going to bring him back ...well..... the beauty of America is you can dream any dream you like, but the rest of the world doesn't have to share it, and even after saying he wouldn't run again, he backtracked saying if they wanted him he would graciously accept.  Now that's dreaming.  

Top conservative leaders in the House and Trump endorsed Jim Jordan for Speaker, but now Jordan says he will vote for Scalise, and they wisely told Fox News they wouldn't have a public debate over this as it was an in-house Republican issue, to be dealt with in-house. Have no doubt, Fox would have worked to make them look like a dysfunctional family and incompetent legislators. 

 

So, with Jordan supporting Steve Scalise, who has an impressive record, who faced an attempted assassination, and is now fighting cancer.  I think he feels if his life is going to be cut short, he wants to make sure he leaves something behind that is meaningful.   

 

So, now he's the Republican choice, and he actually wants the job as I don't think Jordan really wanted it.  He's the hard driving debater type who loves going after the left, loves showing his knowledge, intellect, and logic to defeat them, and if Speaker, he'd have to give that up.  The truth is, both Jordan and Scalise are strong conservatives, unlike McCarthy. However, there are problems.  

 

There are at least twenty House Republican who say they won't vote for him.  So, using the logic used against the Heroic Eight, are they "rebels"!  And will all those who railed against the Heroic Eight call them out as "rebels"?  How about those 45 CINO's who sent a letter condemning Gaetz?  Since there are 221 Republicans in the House, and only 45 signed that letter, that means 176 didn't agree.  So, are they "an arrogant minority" and "rebels" also?   Will Gaetz's detractors call them out for that?

 

Of course the Democrats are going to put up their own candidate, but they know they will lose, but even so, they're willing to be gracious, and have offered to enter into a bipartisan coalition to run the House.

 "House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Democrats were ready to enter into a bipartisan agreement to run the House of Representatives........... “To the extent that my Republican colleagues are unable to resolve the ongoing Republican civil war, we’ve made clear as Democrats that we are ready, willing and able to find common ground, to enter into a bipartisan path forward. So, we could govern the House in an enlightened fashion that ensures that bipartisan priorities that have significant support from Democrats and Republicans in the House can receive an up or down vote. So that we could move forward and get things done for the American people as opposed to allowing the extremists within the House Republican conference to continue to dominate the agenda.”

Imagine that!

• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part I
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part II
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part III

McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part III

By Rich Kozlovich

This is Part III in this series.  Part I, I outlined how everyone went insane over McCarthy's ouster, and saying:

Now we're hearing ..... Chaos, Chaos, Chaos, without McCarty we have chaos.  Really?  Ya gotta be kidden me! Why is it getting rid of a guy who was given a "F" rating by Conservative Review for his votes over the last six years, who loved more spending, more debt ceiling increases,....... massive spending and debt increases I might add, ......... abandoned every conservative principle he claims he believes in, was cozy with Democrats with back room deals is chaos, yet all that capitulation to the left isn't chaos? 

In Part II, and in support of Gaetz's move to oust McCarthy I state:

 

Good decision making is a serious problem for Republicans.  There's a reason they're called the "stupid party", they earned it......And I got kickback on this which surprised me, from conservatives.  Well, this week has been a fiasco of inane intellectual blabber ...... from conservatives!  I've been aghast at the ranting from those who claim to be conservatives over Gaetz's successful ousting of McCarthy, claiming we'll now have chaos without McCarthy, which I will cover in Part III. Can they all be that foolish?  Apparently they can!  So I will run a series of pieces to clarify all of this for them, because it's clear a lot of conservatives are in some serious need of some clarity, and clarity starts with defining things properly.  This the second in my series, and the theme will be, Gaetz, whatever his flaws, is the hero in this story. 

Let's start with those who are condemning Gaetz:

 

Laura Ingraham was seemingly "aghast" that such thing could happen, according to her, their reasoning was unsound.  

Mitch McConnell says, “I think [McCarthy] has much to be proud of,” McConnell told reporters Wednesday, a day after the vote. “We avoided a government shutdown. We did the inevitable with regard to the debt ceiling, and I’m one person who’s extremely grateful for his service.....I have no advice to give to House Republicans except one, I hope whoever the next speaker is gets rid of the motion to vacate."  

 

Why? Because he says it's impossible to govern with such a system. I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that.

 

Mark Levin really surprised me with this load of clabber claiming, "Let's cut to the chase. Gaetz is a POS demagogue who repeatedly lied during the House floor debate yesterday, and then, of course, simultaneously was fundraising and collecting email lists on behalf of the people."  

 

Wow, am I shocked.  No politician ever did any of that before!   Did they?  I'm not going to try and dispute his claims because it's most likely I can't and they're accurate.  But, this is where we need clarity? Does any of that obviate the facts about McCarthy as a RINO failure who never saw an expenditure he couldn't embrace, or a hike in the debt limit he couldn't accept?  That he betrayed conservative base, the Republican party and the nation?  All of which Levin seems to have either ignored, failed to recognize, or dismiss.  All of which reflects poorly on Levin, not Gaetz, irrespective of his flaws.  

White House Press Secretary Krine Jean- Pierre, called this "shambolic behavior that we're seeing from House Republicans............ The White House insisted that Biden is willing to work with Republicans bipartisanly......(sic)

 

Their real concern?  As this Dem. Senator makes clear..... billions of unaccountable dollars for Ukraine.  Well, they may find there's a new concept of bipartisanship distinctly opposite of the invertebrate "governing" by McCarthy and McConnell, in the future.   

 

But here's my favorite, Newt Gingrich:

 

Newt Gingrich who called those eight Republicans "traitors.....and said all of them "should in fact be primaried" and "be driven out of public life............"What they did was to go to the other team to cause total chaos. We ought to be focusing on Biden, we ought to be focusing on the economy, we ought to be focusing on the border," Gingrich lamented. "Instead, you're going to get a week or 10 days of the media focusing on Republican disarray........."It's an astonishingly destructive behavior by a handful of egocentric people who think they're superior to 96 percent of the conference," Gingrich went on to emphasize.

 

Now I think that's really amazing!  Why?  I have a long memory, and a big file on everything that goes on in the world.  In 2011 I wrote this piece, The Power of Science, with that infamous video with Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi sitting on a couch spouting nonsense about global warming.  I went on to say:

 

After getting beaten up over this incredible stupid act, Gingrich confessed the Pelosi ad ‘the dumbest single thing I’ve done in years’. Newt owns up to his participation in this infamous climate ad with Nancy Pelosi, but despite his confession is he out of the woods regarding green issues? He may now be sorry for this lack of insight for doing this incredibly stupid alarmist ad, especially with a person who is clearly a fruit cake, but one wonders if he regrets this because he has all of a sudden become enlightened and more clearly informed; or is it just because this issue isn't the popular cause célèbre it was a couple of years ago.  

 

The fact is he either believed what he was saying, and then took the cowards way and backtracked, or he didn't believe what he was saying and was a dishonest coward.  And he's calling these eight Republicans traitors, and unfit for public service? 

 

Ya just gotta be kidden me!

But the worst demonstration of stupidity and invertebracy was the  45 House RINOs Sign Letter Calling Out 8 GOP Reps for Voting to Remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, and they listed them in this article.  One of them was my Representative Dave Joyce, but truth be told, I didn't have to look to know his name was there.  

Gingrich shot off his mouth saying they should be focused on Biden, not McCarthy.  Okay, but where was their RINO outrage at the vast expenditures by Biden, all of which they voted for, going to illegal aliens. Is it any wonder there are those who think the Republican party isn't only the "stupid party" it's the "worthless party" and is part of the "uniparty" destroying America beyond repair? Apparently that was okay, but firing the man who helped make all that happen is outrageous and chaos!

• Where was their outrage at one of the most evil people in America, Hillary Clinton, with her vile and outrageous claims about the Russian collusion and her commissioning of the Steele dossier?  
• Where was their outrage at her successful efforts to "get election laws changed to benefit Democrats". 
• Where was their outrage at the media's collusion in all that?  
• Where is their outrage now that she's demanding America set up "re-education" camps, just like Mao?
• Where's they outrage at over the new FBI’s task force created to target Trump supporters?  You know, like those radical Catholics who want their mass in Latin.  
• Where is the letter from these 45 misfits telling the world that's unacceptable? 

This gets even better yet.  Where's the outrage over Biden using s $83 million covid relief funds for a new John McCain Library? All of which they voted for, and as far as I can tell, this was on McCarthy's watch.  It get's better.  Cindy McCain, who despises Trump, and thinks Biden is just grand and deserves to be President, also thinks character counts, but the Biden/McCain history isn't exactly an example of integrity or character, unless it's low.   

One thing is clear, all RINO's have a serious issue with, cognitive dissonance.  They fail to define things properly, fail to see the logical fallacies, fail to understand the long term consequences, and have a serious failure in verterbracy.   They fail to define things properly, thus lack clarity.  But no matter, this is the reality.   The status quo has changed, the conservative base is outraged, and they just refuse to recognize that.   

Over at Canada Free Press Jack Gleason in his article, Kevin McCarthy, Rewriting History, asks:  How do you see Kevin McCarthy now? As a victim of a personal vendetta, or a sleaze ball whose lies finally caught up with him, saying:

How quickly we forget.  To hear the screaming scalded cats on Fox, Kevin McCarthy is the tragic victim of a vindictive Matt Gaetz, who dislikes him so much he would end McCarthy’s speakership just to settle a personal score.  Kevin McCarthy is a snake, a smooth talker, and definitely not a conservative. He’s the ultimate swamp creature, he pretends to want “what’s best for the country,” but really wants what’s best for himself...........“It's clear that he's no friend of conservatives. His "Liberty Score" is an F. He and his dark money allies systematically undermined MAGA candidates in the 2022 GOP primaries and even in the general election. 

Rank and file GOP members didn't want him, and only 36% of likely voters think the country is on the wrong track.............McCarthy has spent his career putting special interests ahead of those of the American people in favor of lobbyists, government bureaucrats, the military industrial complex, and has done nothing to control our borders, oppose the drug cartels or oppose Chinese expansion.”

Now I think it's time to present those who are lauding Gaetz.

On October 5, Over at Frontpage Magazine Robert Spencer published this piece, Bravo, Gaetz, At last, a politician stands up to the establishment uniparty, saying:  

“Gaetz has very few friends in the conference,” said his fellow Florida Rep. Carlos Gimenez. “Gaetz maybe has a couple of friends in the delegation. But I’m not one of them"..............even patriots who are sympathetic to Gaetz are saying that he has jeopardized the Republicans’ slim majority in the House.........Gaetz himself is not a candidate.....So the whole thing was a disaster, no? Gaetz should have left well enough alone, right? Wrong. In fact, Gaetz has won a rare victory for the American people, and should be congratulated and thanked accordingly............For years now, indeed, for decades now, and with very few exceptions, the far Left has set political policy in the United States. On occasion, patriots have refused to go along, but almost every time their opposition collapsed into capitulation, with a few minor details adjusted but the larger principles of the Left’s initiative left intact. This capitulationism has been the hallmark of the Republican Party since at very least 1952.........Gaetz added: “Speaker McCarthy made an agreement with House conservatives........

Another of my favorite writers is Patricia McCarthy over at American Thinker.  On October 5th, she posted this article, Matt Gaetz is a hero saying:

So, eight conservatives have successfully ousted Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House and much of the conservative punditry is angry!   What does that tell us?   It tells us that all those RINOs who voted to retain McCarthy are not conservatives.  That any member of Congress can and does vote to perpetuate the brutally irresponsible spending of the uniparty that runs the swamp which should be a wake-up call for all Americans............

The vote to oust Kevin McCarthy should be an epiphany, the realization that neither political party gives a damn about the American people.  Their own personal power, their re-election, the wealth they accrue by being in Congress is the goal.  They vote, again and again, to spend wildly more money than actually exists.  And only eight Republicans had the fortitude to vote against them.   Again, those eight Republicans are brave heroes.  They will surely be punished for their courage but they should give us hope for the future.  Slim hope, to be sure.  Eight out of 435 is a sad commentary on the state of our nation.

What exactly was Gaetz demanding that McCarthy failed to do, and so outraged those 45 RINO's? 

• He demanded that elected representatives of the people keep their promises to the electorate.
• He demanded that Congress control tax dollars.
• He demanded a detailed budget for the federal government.
• He demanded an end to blank checks written to the Administrative State in the form of Omnibus Bills.
• He demanded rogue agencies that used the Judicial system to punish political opponents be funded no more.
• He demanded the IRS be downsized in accordance with its mission.
• He demanded the termination of plans to expand the IRS as a compliance apparatus to shake down political opponents.
• He demanded accountability for the Billions of taxpayer dollars to fund a far-off and covert Ukrainian war.
• He presented our demands as an elected representative of the American People.

None of that is out of sync with the views of real conservatives, all of which McCarthy, and the RINO's in both houses have failed to do.  

That brings us to the crux of the matter!  Who will be the new Speaker of the House, and let's not forget Matt Gaetz isn't putting himself forward.  And didn't for two reasons.  One, most of the House doesn't like him, so he's even less popular than McCarthy was when it took 15 votes to get him elected.  And two, if he did so it would have thwarted what needed to be done.  And that was getting rid of McCarthy!  So, no matter what's being said about Gaetz, it was clear none of this was about him, it was the mission that counted.  

Currently there are two viable candidates,  Jim Jordan, and Steve Scalise, which I really find enjoyable since that nitwit, Rep. Austin Scott claimed the next House Speaker won’t be anybody as conservative as Rep. McCarthy! Guess what Scott, you have a screw loose. 

While Congressman Troy Nehls wanted to nominate Donald Trump for Speaker, and the Constitution doesn't require the Speaker to be a member of Congress, so that was possible, albeit stupid, but Trump has endorsed Jim Jordan.

Now, if you really want confidence that Jordan is the go to guy, take the comments from these two misfits,  Liz Cheney, who claims Jordan would overturn the Constitution, and Adam Kinzinger who claims Jordan is "very dangerous for the nation", because he's a Christian, and a nationalist.  

A Christian, Oh No!!! Oh, wait, wasn't it Christians who were the writers of the Constitution?  And wasn't it New England religious leaders who inspired the Bill of Rights?  Are those the kind of people he's talking about?  If those two pus filled pimples are against him, that should fill every conservative in the nation with confidence for him as Speaker.

• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part I
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part II
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part III

McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part II

Definition leads to clarity, clarity leads to understanding, understanding leads to good decision making.  

By Rich Kozlovich 

Good decision making is a serious problem for Republicans.  There's a reason they're called the "stupid party", they earned it. I posted this piece, McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, saying:

Before this vote to dump McCarthy everyone was laughing at Gaetz, and now, ....and now...., this is going to change things as never before.  First, everyone said his efforts were going nowhere.  Then it was said the ethics committee was investigating  him, and by all accounts at the behest of McCarthy, and could cost his is seat in the Congress.  He knows whether or not he's guilty and I doubt he would be pursuing this if he was, and we already know some charges brought against him were lies the media ran with. Now we're hearing ..... Chaos, Chaos, Chaos, without McCarty we have chaos.  Really?  Ya gotta be kidden me! Why is it getting rid of a guy who was given a "F" rating by Conservative Review for his votes over the last six years, who loved more spending, more debt ceiling increases,....... massive spending and debt increases I might add, ......... abandoned every conservative principle he claims he believes in, was cozy with Democrats with back room deals is chaos, yet all that capitulation to the left isn't chaos?  

And I got kickback on this which surprised me, from conservatives.  Well, this week has been a fiasco of inane intellectual blabber ...... from conservatives!  I've been aghast at the ranting from those who claim to be conservatives over Gaetz's successful ousting of McCarthy, claiming we'll now have chaos without McCarthy, which I will cover in Part III. Can they all be that foolish?  

Apparently they can!  So I will run a series of pieces to clarify all of this for them, because it's clear a lot of conservatives are in some serious need of some clarity, and clarity starts with defining things properly.  This the second in my series, and the theme will be, Gaetz, whatever his flaws, is the hero in this story.

Here's what the conservative base of the Republican party is concerned about, and what McCarthy and his fellow CINO's (Conservative in Name Only) in the Republican caucus failed to do anything about by continuing to fund everything the Democrats and Biden demanded of them.

1. Over eight million illegal immigrants have invaded America, and this administration, and the Democrats, along with some Republicans in Congress are complicit in that criminality, and yet their public stand is the "border is secure".  Which almost no one believes.
2. Biden wants the Congress to authorize borrowing another six to seven trillion dollars, money we can't pay back under the current system.  
3. Biden wants home mortgage interest rates to be raised to 7%.  
4. Inflation has caused basic essentials to cost between 25 and 30% more since he was fraudulently elected to office.
5. His foreign policy decisions have been disastrous starting with Afghanistan leaving billions of dollars of American military equipment to the Taliban, and now wants to fund Ukraine to billions of dollars we don't have - all unaccountable billions of dollars - and is depleting America's arsenal in support of Ukraine. 
6. His pandemic polices, along with the racist DEI demands he's imposed on America's military have devastated a once stable military into a crumbing mess right before our very eyes. These DEI generals and admirals, misfits all, can't fix the jet fighters, or the nation's submarines, but they fixed the gender and white supremacist issues that "plagued" the military. 
   
7. He's destroyed the nation's energy independence inherited from Trump,  drained the energy reserve to lower gas prices, and now America has to buy oil from the Middle East, and even of all places, Venezuela, with their heavily contaminated oil. 
8. Crime is skyrocketing in all of America's Democrat controlled major cities.  The result:
   
• Destroyed lives
• Bankrupted businesses.
• Forcing out the stable productive citizens, leaving these Democrat run sewers. 
• Turning these cities over to the thugs, murderers, drug addicts, bums, along with the poor and elderly who can't afford to leave, putting them at the mercy of monsters.   
  
• These leftist misfits refuse to prosecute criminals. 
• They've stripped the police, at least those who are left, of the power to deal with them, and the nitwits in the Democrat party and their catspaws in the media applaud all that.

Can the left wing journalists and activists, and even Democratic politicians, who all supported defunding the police, who have been refusing to prosecute criminals escape the consequences of the resulting crime wave, street violence, and the murderous predators they've turning loose on society.   They think so! How?  Because they claim there's no crime, it's all conservative propaganda being used to divide the party, and anyone who claims otherwise is nothing but an out and out Nazi racist.  

But does reality really trump fantasy?  Maybe, and maybe not!  Allegedly 47% of America approves of Biden, and presumably his polices and the Democrat party.  Is it possible that many people in America are that stupid?  Maybe, and that's frightening.  But what's really frightening is how many "conservatives" supported a seriously failed Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, who never saw an expenditure he didn't love or a debt ceiling he couldn't break through.  And they're concerned about preventing a government shutdown?  Ya gotta be kidden me. 

• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part I
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part II
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part III

McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins

By Rich Kozlovich

Before this vote to dump McCarthy everyone was laughing at Gaetz, and now, ....and now...., this is going to change things as never before.  First, everyone said his efforts were going nowhere.  Then it was said the ethics committee was investigating  him, and by all accounts at the behest of McCarthy, and could cost his is seat in the Congress.  He knows whether or not he's guilty and I doubt he would be pursuing this if he was, and we already know some charges brought against him were lies the media ran with.

Now we're hearing ..... Chaos, Chaos, Chaos, without McCarty we have chaos.  Really?  Ya gotta be kidden me!

Why is it getting rid of a guy who was given a "F" rating by Conservative Review for his votes over the last six years, who loved more spending, more debt ceiling increases,....... massive spending and debt increases I might add, ......... abandoned every conservative principle he claims he believes in, was cozy with Democrats with back room deals is chaos, yet all that capitulation to the left isn't chaos?  

This is a man who claims he won't run again because he won't sell his soul to the Democrats, and that all this was due to nothing more than personal animus against him by Gaetz. While the animus between them is palpable, and it's clear that's part of the story, that's not really the issue is it?  

Did he abandon all conservative positions on spending and other issues or didn't he?  Did he fail to honor his agreements with the conservative wing?  Yes, he did, and that's the real issue isn't it. 

As Rep. Nancy Mace noted:

"[McCarthy] has not lived up to his word on how the House would operate.” ............I came here to take difficult votes and do the right thing, regardless of the pressure and regardless of the threats (bc there’s been plenty of both). Today I’m voting against 95 percent of my party in the hopes of fixing how Congress operates,.............With the current Speaker, this chaos will continue. We need a fresh start so we can get back to the people’s business free of these distractions. I’ll work with anyone willing to do that and look forward to voting for a Speaker who shares this vision for changing Congress and getting us back on a path to delivering results for the people.”

The vote was a bit of a shock since only eight Republicans voted to oust him, which I think is truly telling of where the Republican party stands on all the spending and insanity of the Democrats.  It also shows what I think is an important point.  McCarthy's chumminess with the Democrats meant nothing when he needed them, and historically, Democrats will abandon everyone, anyone, or anything if it gives them a boost, even if its temporary.  That's history, and that should have been recognized by the most casual observer.  This piece about Pelosi's promises exemplifies that. 

The House won't pick a new Speaker until next week, and while there's no Speaker, legislation is at a standstill, and the nation's safe for at least a week anyway.  What kind of speaker will be picked?  This really gets rich.  Rep. Austin Scott claims the next House Speaker won’t be anybody as conservative as Rep. McCarthy! Why, is the House going to pick Nancy Pelosi?  

 

McCarthy's view of things are what you would expect claiming compromise is necessary and claimed:

 

"Doing the right thing isn't always easy, but it is necessary,"  [and he was] "proud of what we accomplished........."

 

So practically groveling to the left is "compromise" and raising the debt ceiling and spending like drunken sailors is doing the right thing and made him proud?  Is there any doubt he's not the answer, he's the problem, and he's just the tip of the iceberg.  All this to avoid a government shut down.  I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that.

 

Now the Democrats are crowing and preening themselves over what is clearly a problem for Congressional Republicans, in both houses, claiming .....laughably claiming..... they voted against McCarthy because “We're going to vote with Matt Gaetz because we are anti-MAGA".    But they "could hardly contain their joy at the dysfunction on the other side", because here's the real reason they voted against McCarthy.  They're trying to show Republicans are undisciplined and incapable of governing. 

 

So, that's how this story is playing out today?  There's a lot of anger being expressed by Republicans over McCarthy being ousted, including the Interim Speaker Patrick McHenry.

 

But J. D. Rucker defines this properly calling the GOP feckless, and wondering where was all this angry emotion over illegal aliens pouring across our borders, the debt deals that rose our debt to 33 trillion dollars, how the FBI has been politicized and is rounding up Trump supporters and throwing them into prison, or that the Justice department is clearly performing illegal acts involving election interference. 

Why is it all that's meaningless but kicking their RINO buddy, actually their CINO buddy, Conservative in name only, is outrageous, and that really makes them angry.   

 

Not the inflation their legislation generates, or the damage from the false pandemic narrative and mandates, not the blatantly criminal activity of the Biden Crime family, or the corrupt practices of Department heads of the Deep State. No, they're angry at Gaetz for making McCarthy accountable for his actions, all of which they supported.  

 

That's today, but remember, tomorrow is only a day away, and in Washington, tomorrow can become an era! Gaetz response to all the hand wringing and outrage against him:

"It's to the benefit of this country that we have a better Speaker of the House than Kevin McCarthy!.........We are breaking the fever now, and we should elect a speaker who's better”

But what this all really shows is the Congress is out of control and is driving the nation to ruin.  Now that's what I call chaos, and a good, and long shut down, would be a good thing, starting with laying off 80% of all the bureaucrats in the federal government, and start looking at eliminating them permanently.  

• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part I
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part II
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part III

House Breaks Logjam, Will Vote on Spending Bills this Week Bradley Jaye

Bradley Jaye 26 Sep 2023 

The House of Representatives finally overcame a procedural hurdle Tuesday night to allow votes on spending bills after defeating a similar motion twice last week.  The vote clears a path for a vote on an agriculture appropriations bill that was yanked from the floor before the August recess after a handful of Republicans indicated they would block it..........Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has promised to introduce a motion to oust McCarthy from the speakership if McCarthy brings a CR to the House floor. That motion to vacate the chair would be privileged by House rules and force the House to vote on the matter...............A successful motion to oust McCarthy would require the support of most, if not all, Democrats. The Democrat Whip laid out last week the price they would seek from McCarthy to save his speakership, including the termination of the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden.  ....To Read More....

My Take - McCarthy has been dancing with the Devil his entire career and this proves what I've been saying for years.  When you dance with the Devil you won't call the tune, you won't decide the dance, and you might not be able to leave the dance floor.     

One thing is sure, his days as leader of the House republicans is numbered.  No matter how the 2024 election turns out, he's toast, and who knows, since he's a California Congressman, and he's up for reelection in 2024, any legitimate conservative base is bound to be disappointed in his performance, his leftist constituents might even dump him for being too conservative.  California politicians should never be in a leadership role.

 

For Biden and Democrats, Payback Is the Pits

How far will Kevin McCarthy and Republicans go to even the score?

By: Tim Donner January 18, 2023 @ Liberty Nation News

For lo these many years, Democrats acted as if their reign of terror against the ever-dangerous Donald Trump and the rising MAGA movement would be free of consequence. They believed that the impunity and relentlessness with which they waged war against Trump from the moment he was elected president would exact no price. Joe Biden and company carried on as if their salad days of MAGA-bashing, reaching a pinnacle with the 2020 election, would know no end, and that they would never ultimately be held to account for their behavior. After all, Trump is just so easy to scandalize, and the Democrats all but control the media messaging that matters most. They still think they’re sitting pretty.

  Boy, are they in for a rude awakening. They will soon learn the same lesson most of us do at one time or another in life: Payback is the pits.

After controlling the narrative ever since the onset of the pandemic almost three years ago, allowing them to power-drive the final nail into Trump’s coffin, Democrats have now been stripped of their ability to sweep their actions under the rug. Sure, big media will do their best to shield this president from the political consequences of his metastasizing classified-documents scandal and the investigation cyclone Speaker Kevin McCarthy (D-CA) and House Republicans are unleashing as we speak. But even The New York Times will be forced to report in some way on probes into everything from Hunter Biden’s laptop to the scandalous collapse of the US southern border to left-wing censorship and the long-suspected but now-proven government collusion with social media.

Will Democrats Pay for Their Scorched-Earth Behavior?

Just days into his speakership, McCarthy has already established the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to look deeply into federal agencies — from the FBI to the military —  engaging in prohibited political activity. He has seen articles of impeachment filed against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and announced that the notorious trio of Trump-deranged Democrats – Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Eric Swalwell (D-CA), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) — will be removed from plum committee assignments.  And fittingly in these days of bitter partisan politics gone wild, there are even plans to form a committee to investigate a former committee — the Jan. 6 panel.

If McCarthy and his House caucus are looking to exact an eye for an eye and even the score for the Democrats’ full-strength, unending exploitation of their majority status, then they would answer yes to a number of questions: Would they impeach Biden over a phone call to a foreign leader they find unacceptable? Would they impeach him after he leaves office? Would they conspire with Elon Musk to censor left-wing content on Twitter? Would they assemble a one-sided Hollywood production to magnify the sins of Biden, as Democrats did to Trump with their Soviet-style J6 Committee? Would they support draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for naked political advantage in the run-up to an election?

The overarching question is whether Republicans will criminalize political differences as leftists have done to a fault. Will McCarthy and Republicans act like Nancy Pelosi and Biden and declare left-wing Democrats a threat to democracy? Will they classify tens of millions of voters who pulled the lever for their opponents as extremists? Will they call for an FBI raid on Biden’s home to recover the classified documents we now know are stored there, as they were at Mar-a-Lago? Will they demand the release of Biden’s tax returns, after Pelosi broke with long-standing policy and did the dirty deed to Trump on her way out of the Speaker’s office? Will they raise the specter of applying the 25th Amendment to remove the cognitively challenged Biden from the presidency as the Dems did with Trump?

Of course, the answer to these questions is no. But the fact that the Democrats’ answer was yes when they controlled the entirety of the federal government is all you need to know about the lengths they were willing to go to kneecap Trump and his movement — and the overwhelming temptation for House Republicans to now respond in kind.