About 40 days out from another spending bill is due?
The House went home for a week….
And?
The WingNuts aren’t going to want to give an inch after they just got rid of their parties House Speaker….
Who the Speaker is doesn’t matter….
Passage of ANYTHING in the chamber WILL HAVE TO get Democratic VOTES….
A Republican on MSNBC just said The Republican Party operates BETTER as a Minority, which they will most probably be come 2025….
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is already taking aim at Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-N.C), saying that he should not send lawmakers home for the next week.
“I do have to offer some pretty sharp criticism of the new pro tem of the House, Patrick McHenry,” Gaetz said on Newsmax’s “The Balance” with host Eric Bolling on Tuesday. “We met tonight, and he sent us home until Tuesday of next week.”
“We should be here tomorrow, working to elect a new Speaker, getting onto our appropriations bills and engaging in a negotiation with the Senate to get the government funded, but instead these people got to go home and cry for a week,” he continued. “They’ve got to go do a week of hand-wringing and bedwetting over the fact that Kevin McCarthy isn’t Speaker anymore. This institution is about more than one man.”….
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Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) announced late Tuesday that he will file paperwork to nominate former President Trump to be the next Speaker of the House.
“This week, when the U.S. House of Representatives reconvenes, my first order of business will be to nominate Donald J. Trump for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives,” Nehls said in a statement. “President Trump, the greatest President of my lifetime, has a proven record of putting America First and will make the House great again.”…
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Former President Trump on Wednesday appeared to rule out serving as Speaker after some House Republicans suggested him for the role, but he declined to back any particular candidate to replace Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) after his ouster.
“Lot of people have been calling me about Speaker, all I can say is we’ll do whatever is best for the country and for the Republican Party,” Trump told reporters at a Manhattan courthouse, where a fraud trial involving his business empire is taking place….
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Matthew Yglesias: “I just reject the Republican establishmentarian spin that the real issue here is Democrats’ refusal to bail McCarthy out. My advice to Democrats was to not drive a hard bargain here — be a cheap date, want to get to yes. But if McCarthy wants Democrats to do something for him, he has to do something in return.”
“I understand he felt that he couldn’t offer any concessions for risk of further increasing the size of the rebellion, but that’s just another way of saying that the GOP caucus is dysfunctional. And people need to know that. Joe Biden is old, but he runs a competent professional administration. Republicans are running a shit show.”
“Importantly, the shit show is bigger than the handful of rebels. The rebels are absolutely part of it, but given that, the mainstream wing of the party has no choice but the cauterize the wound and make a deal with Democrats to keep McCarthy in the Speaker’s chair.”
“That means mainstream Republicans need to suck it up and offer Democrats something. They don’t need to like sucking it up, but that is the position the rebels put them in. And they just refused. That’s a top to bottom dysfunctional Republican caucus. People need to see and understand that.”
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Former Speaker Newt Gingrich told Fox News that the eight Republicans who voted to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy were “traitors” and called for them all to be primaried and “driven out of public life.”
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“Republicans in the Problem Solvers Caucus are weighing quitting the bipartisan group after Democrats opted against helping former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) keep his leadership position on Tuesday,” Axios reports.
“GOP members in the group are furious at their Democratic colleagues who voted to remove McCarthy. The Republicans say he was punished for “doing the right thing” after advancing a stopgap funding bill on a bipartisan basis.”
“Frustrated members said that Democrats in the group, which is aimed at finding bipartisan solutions, sparked chaos for political gain despite many Republicans in the group having faced primaries for crossing the aisle and taking difficult votes.”
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Playbook: “Kevin McCarthy’s reign as House speaker is finished. But the chaos and infighting that plagued his brief tenure isn’t. In fact, it might just be beginning.”
“As it stands, the plan is straightforward enough: Take a week, elect a new speaker, and roll merrily along. Acting Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, McCarthy’s hand-picked interim caretaker, told fellow House Republicans behind closed doors last night that he plans to hold a candidate debate Tuesday, with votes to follow Wednesday.”
“We can tell you this morning, there isn’t much sense inside the House GOP that it will be able to heal its bitter divisions and coalesce around a new speaker anywhere near that soon.”
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John Harris: “McCarthy’s ouster is dramatic evidence, if redundant, about the state of the modern GOP. A party that used to have an instinctual orientation toward authority and order — Democrats fall in love, went the old chestnut, while Republicans fall in line — is now animated by something akin to nihilism.”
“The politics of contempt so skillfully exploited by Donald Trump is turned inward on hapless would-be leaders like McCarthy with no less ferocity than it is turned outward on liberals and the media.”