A piece in the New York Times goes back to reminds people that a former Republican Speaker of the US House of Representives started the ‘zero-sum’ brand of politics we may come to witness going forward in the majority led US House with Rep. Kevin McCarthy as the new Speaker….
Under Gingrich as will be under McCarthy legislation WILL be passed…
And?
Do to Gingrich’s hardline actions which included government shutdowns which resulted in House Republicans voter beatdown’s ….he was forced to quit the House Speakership and Congress altogether?
His history IS NOT blaring across the media , nor is probably in the minds of the Freedom caucus …But believe me?
It WILl come back to haunt Republicans and believe me….
This link on him in Wiki is gonna get a Lot of hits….
Do NOT believe the media noise that everything will stop and that there will be MASSIVE cuts in the US Budget….
Things do NOT work that way….
The Freedom Caucus will eventually be overruled by the need to get things done…..
Even ringwingnut Rep. Greene figured out dancing WITh McCarthy against revolting protagonist rookie Rep. Gaetz she would get over when the dust settled…
But?
Yes there IS going to be headaches and a lot of food for the media to spoon out ……
And YES….
House Speaker McCarthy IS on borrowed time….
Even Gingrich knocked the last few days circus….
Newt Gingrich was disdainful.
After watching days of House Republicans failing to elect a speaker, Mr. Gingrich, the most famous of all recent G.O.P. House speakers, vented about the hard-right holdouts, among them Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida.
“There’s no deal you can make with Gaetz,” Mr. Gingrich said in an interview Thursday night. “He’s essentially bringing ‘Lord of the Flies’ to the House of Representatives.”
In contrast, Mr. Gingrich said of his own speakership, which sought a revolt in the Republican Party and the way Washington does business, “We weren’t just grandstanders. We were purposeful.” He would be glad to show the current rebels how to do it, he said. “But anything that takes longer than waiting for their cappuccino, I doubt they’re interested in.”
History does not precisely remember it that way. It is true that Mr. Gingrich’s tenure from 1995 through 1998 produced several legislative accomplishments, including two balanced budgets signed into law by a Democratic president, Bill Clinton. But to both Democrats and Republicans, the jut-jawed intransigence of House Republicans opposing Representative Kevin McCarthy’s ultimately successful bid to be speaker did not materialize out of nowhere….
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“They’re employing the old Gingrich argument that you don’t get any benefit from cooperation or compromise, only from confrontation,” said Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland, until recently the Democrats’ House majority leader. Mr. Hoyer, who was sworn into office in 1981, two years after Mr. Gingrich, recalled the Georgia congressman “playing to the anger and disaffection of people who Nixon called ‘the silent majority’ a few years earlier.”
“Those feelings predated Gingrich,” Mr. Hoyer said. “But he took extraordinary advantage of them, just as Trump did later and just as this crowd’s doing now.”…
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As the G.O.P. dissidents huddled Friday with team McCarthy in search of a deal that would dilute the new speaker’s power, Ms. Greene observed that this was exactly the kind of back-room scheming that the group purported to abhor. “It’s pure ego,” she said of the Never Kevin brigade….
image….The Daily Beast