House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) warned on Sunday that the small but mighty chorus of MAGA-aligned holdouts opposing his speakership bid could squander the slim majority House Republicans have if they don’t come together with the rest of the caucus and support him.
Dems in Disarray.
“If people don’t come along, that’s going to delay our ability to secure the border,” McCarthy added. “That’s going to delay our ability to become energy independent. That’s going to delay our ability to repeal 87,000 IRS agents.
Qevin can’t “repeal” anything without the Senate and Biden’s signature. Or is this some high-level logic I never learned about in college?
There’s no subpoena that can go out until that gets done.
The real pitch to the MAGA caucus.
No McCarthy. No subpeona’s for Hunter Biden’s d*ck pics.
Po’, po’ Quevin.
“Right now, it’s actually delaying our ability to govern as we go,”
Wrong. There is no ability to govern until the new Congress is seated in January. Right now he’s just House Minority Leader.
“People sell their soul in such small quantities - a seemingly trivial compromise here, a rationalization of a minor evil there - that they don’t realize what they’re doing until it is too late.” ― Mike Klepper
Guess what Qevin, it ain’t going to get any easier from here. Remember that God has a profound sense of humor, and right now you are the joke.
Headline: McCarthy wants to kill 87,000 jobs.
We know what is coming. We just can’t let it affect the Democrats. The GOP is after chaos and inter-party conflict while trying to snooker people into looking at it as “governance”.
No, Kevin can’t repeal anything, nor does he really want to. The whole point of this is fund raising off the “we can’t do anything as long as the Democrat Party exists” talking point.
They were hard pressed to repeal anything when they had a Republican president, the Senate and the House. They’re more or less impotent with the coalition government he’s cobbling together, now.
And disillusion is all they will accomplish with the mouth-breather arm of their base.
our ability to govern
Oh, but for these people, government workers are like parasites who, apparently, do nothing whatsoever with the salary Our Tax Dollars pay–they just hoard and hoard and hoard it, never needing to buy food or clothing, or pay a mortgage or rent or utility bills, or . . . or . . . or . . .
Doesn’t that presume they intend to govern at all? Sounds more like they intend to obstruct and stand in the way of any governing. I’m sorry, but investigations into Hunter and Joe and the J6 committee participants and Garland, and all the rest, doesn’t sound much like governing to me.
I’m not wrong on this.
Nope, he’s the punchline.
“Right now, it’s actually delaying our ability to govern as we go,” McCarthy said on Fox News.
Kevin will not be speaker first vote. The crazies will ensure at least that embarrassing event as a demonstration of power.
Kevin may get to be speaker after that. If the crazies insist, I expect Speaker Scalise.
Your party has no interest in governing, you’re actually threatening them with having to work. What you need to tell them is that it’ll hurt them next election and the donors will turn off the spigot.
so any five members can hold us up for achieving.
For achieving over the next two years just means maximum obstruction. A dawdling, directionless America, a second-best alternative to the MAGA autarky dream.
If McCarthy loses more than four Republican votes in the election scheduled for January 3, he will likely fall under the 218 votes he needs to become the new House leader.
It’s not that simple. Speaker is elected via majority of ballots naming a candidate. The democrats have 212 votes. So any republican total reaching 213 or more wins. Only way just five magatwerps can throw the election is if all five vote for the democrat (which would be a 217-217 tie), and that’s not going to happen.