House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appeared on Face the Nation and Fox News to respond and defend himself from the UniParty accusations of Matt Gaetz. As McCarthy stated in both interviews, he believes his job is not to represent Republicans, but rather as House Speaker he is to represent the interests of all Americans, including communists.
McCarthy knows the Democrats will protect him, as long as he continues making secret deals with them. This is his shield against the removal threats of Matt Gaetz and other MAGA republicans in Congress. Speaker McCarthy knows how to fly the UniParty vulture with both wings flapping in unison. However, the Democrats visibly supporting him may present a problem, thus the next element of his discussion.
To retain his America-First Bonafides, McCarthy now links any Ukraine funding to the border security position. McCarthy’s connection of the two issues is not related to a strategic legislative effort to get the border secured, but rather as a mechanism to allow him to fund his Ukraine priority. Attaching border security measures gives him the cover, to provide the Ukraine funding. WATCH:
MARGARET BRENNAN: Good morning and welcome to Face The Nation. Congress has done it once again. They’ve kicked the proverbial can down the road passing a 45 day funding bill to keep the government running. Now the deadline for getting spending bills passed is November 17th. Joining us this morning, the Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy. Good morning, you’ve had a heck of a week.
HOUSE SPEAKER KEVIN MCCARTHY: Yeah.
MARGARET BRENNAN: There is a lot to get to with you. I want to start though, on the news this morning from Congressman Matt Gatez, who says he’s going to seek a motion to vacate. He’s going to try to oust you as Speaker of the House.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: That’s nothing new. He’s tried to do that. From the moment I ran for the office. Look–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –Well this time he says he’s going to keep going, may not get there before the 15th ballot but it took 15 for Kevin McCarthy. He says he’s coming for you, can you survive?
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Yes, I’ll survive. You know this is personal with Matt. Matt voted against the most conservative ability to protect our border, secure our border. He’s more interested in securing TV interviews than doing something, he wanted to push us into a shutdown, even threatening his own district with all the military people there who would not be paid only because he wants to take this motion. So be it, bring it on. Let’s get over with it and let’s start governing. If he’s upset because he tried to push us in a shutdown and I made sure government didn’t shut down, then let’s have that fight.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You need 218 votes to vacate. Has Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader said that he will–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –No, he hasn’t said–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –No what?
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: He hasn’t said anything about what he’s going to do, look–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Will Democrats-Democrats could cross over and follow Gaetz’s lead on this–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –Yeah, he he–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –His–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –Look, Gaetz is trying to work with Democrats. He’s reached out to Swalwell, to AOC and others. But if that’s the way we’re going to govern, I don’t think America is going to be successful. Look, at the end of the day, think of everything we’ve been able to accomplish so far. Parents Bill of Rights, we passed the most conservative bill to protect our border, make America energy independent. We’ve been able to cut $2 trillion, and the debt ceiling, work requirements back in. The hard part we have right now–
MARGARET BRENNAN:–yeah–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –is the Senate has not passed one appropriation bill. Each body is supposed to pass 12. We’ve passed more than 70% of the discretionary spending already.
MARGARET BRENNAN: –But those–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –I thought it was appropriate–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –Surviving in the Senate and making it into law.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –Well, you said that–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –and we have 45 days to–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –you said that same thing when we, when we stopped the DC from decriminalizing everything. You said the same thing when we said we’re going to
MARGARET BRENNAN: –I don’t think I ever talked about those things–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –Well no–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –to be honest with you–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: you and, maybe the press would do think, why pass it because the Senate won’t take it up and won’t sign it. Most in the press probably thought we would have shut down yesterday too. But no, we did not.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Were you confident we wouldn’t shut down?
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: I was confident I could get something on the floor to make sure the option that we would not–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –But you weren’t–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –but our military–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –sure it was going to pass.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Well, well I wasn’t sure it was gonna pass. You want to know why? Because the Democrats tried to do everything they can, not to let it pass.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Democrats were the ones who voted for the–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –Did you, did you watch–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –and a large number of Republicans to keep the continuing resolution alive
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –Did you watch the floor yesterday?
MARGARET BRENNAN: Oh. Yes–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Okay then–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –90 Republicans voted against it.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Okay, so let’s walk. Let’s walk through what actually happened. First of all, the Democrats stood up and did dilatory actions asked to adjourn. So it was that supporting to adjourn? Then they used the Magic Minute. They went as far as pulling the fire alarm not to try to get the bill to come up. Look Democrats stick together, but they did not want the bill. They did not, they were willing to let government shutdown for our military not to be paid. No, I wasn’t. We’re going to make sure we keep it open while we finish the job we’re supposed to do.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You got 45 days?
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: That’s right.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –Well, technically 47. But–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, Senator Cornyn said of you last night, you pulled a rabbit out of the hat a couple of times. I mean, he’s acknowledging this was tough. Are we going to be staring down another shutdown?
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Well it all comes down to the Senate, the Senate hasn’t done one thing.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But in the House, are we going to be facing another shutdown November 17?
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: No, because the House is doing their work. We’ve already done more than 70% of it. So compare this to the Senate. The Senate hasn’t passed one bill. The Senate didn’t pass anything about the shutdown. The Senate hasn’t passed anything about securing the border. The Senate hasn’t passed anything about $100 a barrel–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –The House hasn’t passed anything about the border that could actually could become law–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –Yes we have–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –not that could become law.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: That’s your opinion. The House is its own body. The Senate is his own body. We’re not going to surrender to the Senate. We passed what the American people want. I will tell you each and every day- and don’t take my word for it. You’re going to have the governor of New York on it, who told people to go somewhere else. The New York City Mayor literally says destroying the city–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –Will you have–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: No, let me answer your question since you said we wouldn’t do something. Do you know the governor of Massachusetts has declared a state of emergency? This is one of the number one crises
MARGARET BRENNAN: Absolutely.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY:–as far from the border as you can see. This is killing Americans every single day–
MARGARET BRENNAN: There was no border funding in the continuing resolution that passed last night, but let me ask you–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –No no no, But that’s not fair to just say that–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –Well there wasn’t.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Okay, well, let’s- let’s educate the viewers why there wasn’t because the day before there was, but Matt Gaetz and others
MARGARET BRENNAN: –yup–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –denied that and voted no. So we could have had border security.
MARGARET BRENNAN: –okay–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –I went all the way through everything we could to the last moment–
MARGARET BRENNAN:–yeah–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: And you know what? We’re going to be able to win that.
MARGARET BRENNAN: When will you be able to bring a vote on Ukraine aid? The White House says that you have-are going to do this quickly.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Look, the priority for me is America and our borders. Now, I support being able to make sure Ukraine has the weapons that they need. But I firmly support the border first. So we’ve got to find a way that we can do this together.
MARGARET BRENNAN: What do you mean the border first, because the White House briefed Congress that 45 days, they don’t have enough money–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: They have more–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –Allow them to get–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: They have more than three, they have more than three billion dollars right now, to be able to help them get through it. If they have some challenge, we can sit down, and we can talk about that. But the American border matters and more–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Of Course.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –more Americans are dying on our border than Americans are dying in Ukraine.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So you are explicitly right now linking any Ukraine aid vote to a border bill–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY:–I’m telling–
MARGARET BRENNAN:–it won’t be a stand alone Ukraine bill?
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: I’m telling you that the American border matters. And that is our priority to make sure we secure that–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –So that has to move first?–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –I’m going to make sure that the weapons are provided for Ukraine, but they’re not going to get some big package if the border is not secure.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But you haven’t figured out yet the vehicle through which to move that Ukraine aid or a date by which to do it?
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: We will work with people in need. But the one thing the White House has to understand, they better be prepared to secure American border.
MARGARET BRENNAN: What does that mean, specifically? What are you looking for there?
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Well, the- the bill you think that won’t go anywhere could easily do it, H.R. 2. Remain in Mexico, finish the wall. You’ve got to change asylum to be able to secure this border.
MARGARET BRENNAN: That is the bill, the border bill, that you want passed–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –Yes–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –and you are now–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –not want
MARGARET BRENNAN: –it sounds like attaching it to Ukraine aid–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Not that I- Not that I want it passed. It is passed and the Senate has done nothing. So let’s see where the Senate–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –You just said you wanted border first. So you’re not talking about holding a new vote in the House on the border. I’m trying to clarify what you’re talking about here.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Okay, not to be- but how it works is the House passes a bill, the Senate passes a bill, and you go to conference. The House has already done their job
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: the Senate-and we’ve done this in Approps. The Senate has done nothing. So what I am saying is when you saw government funding, there is a need for Ukraine. I support being able to provide the weapons to Ukraine
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yup–
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: –but America comes first.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, so you’re not sequencing the bills or was- weren’t meaning to suggest that in your comments earlier.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Yes.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right. Okay. I want to make sure I understood that. How much harder did your job get when Donald Trump came out and said that Republicans should shut down if they don’t get everything they need? And are you going to endorse him explicitly?
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: Look, I think- I think President Trump’s going to be our nominee and President Trump’s going to win because President Trump’s policies made America stronger. We didn’t have inflation. We had a secure border–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Are you endorsing him now?
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: We didn’t have $100 barrel oil. So what I totally find is the president is going to be our nominee, the president is going to win reelection, President Trump, for the basis that we want to make America stronger. And the other thing too is look what’s happening in foreign policy today. You’ve got five American embassies that had to be evacuated. You’ve got this new axis of power growing against- you’ve got a challenge when you- our own allies are now turning towards China. It’s a lack of leadership, not just in foreign policy within our border and everywhere else. This president has been in elected office for 50 years. Do you know he has spent more dinners with Hunter Biden’s business associates than he has visiting the border? Yeah, don’t you think that’s important though? One time in 50 years. Do you know how many people will die today from fentanyl coming across our border?
MARGARET BRENNAN: It’s a scourge.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY: It’s the equivalent of an airliner crashing every single day in America and they refuse to even visit it or do something about it so we are going to make sure this border becomes secure.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We will watch for what that means legislatively. Speaker, thank you very much for your time today.
Kevin’s new boss.
Isn’t that sweet? Just look at them. You would think they have been in bed together all their lives!
Be careful, Frank Luntz may not like that.
I’m surprised DeSantis isn’t using Luntz for his fake focus groups,
since the Cruz team, now the DeSantis team,used him for that.
i’m gonna cry,,,
Forevermore know as a ‘Uni-Party Group Hug’. Mike looks like he’s savoring the moment.
A match made in HELL!
Who’s “Mike”? Hakeem Sekou Jeffries or Kevin McCarthy?
Excellent!
Trump 2024
In hindsight – such a linkage should have been obvious to me.
The government will never fix itself from within.
The military and LEO’s will side with their employers.
“The military and LEO’s will side with their employers.”
More and more people are starting to realize that.
I call it Pensions before Principles
Especially when all those young military-aged men invading our border enlist to gain citizenship. there will be only one criteria question asked – “Would you shoot an American citizen at point blank range when ordered?”
There is a limit to at least significant proportion of us. We know not what that percentage is, but we are armed with the truth, rooted deeply in our spirits
Comforting to know Kevie’s boyfriend Frank Luntz is calling the shots in the House. Everything Kevie drools is BS to appeal to the rest of DC and his uni-party pals.
US is toast. Prepare.
Indeed, I don’t want to be a pessimist but if conservatives aren’t prepared for what I see as an inevitably violent conflict they’re not being responsible.
McCarthy is a scumbag of the lowest ethics. Lies and broken promises.
Get him outta there…. for America’s sake.
McCarthy was incoherent during that interview. He is a liar and a fraud. Moreover, he KNOWS that RINOs and Dems will protect him on the vote to vacate. He is the rat that can’t be trapped.
That’s it, in a nutshell.
I think he is unravelling. Imagine the stress he feels.
Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer, Waters, AOC, are hired to entertain the crazy among us. Their role is to play the part of the enemy. That’s easy and natural for them.
Kevin, on the other hand s supposed to play the role of the good guy. His facade is unravelling. Gaetz may be punished, but he is sending ripples of resolve among many, yet unseen.
You never see the democrats willingly resign a well held seat. Republicans, however, must leave when they are discovered to be frauds: Gowdy, Corker, and many others who left in the last election. And it is getting harder and harder for Republicans to win the trust of their constituents, and harder and harder for them to cheat on elections, lie to their constituents.
The USS Titanic was doomed from the start, it just took the ever-worsening of western humanity to show its weaknesses. There is no unraveling the cultural slipknot that is hanging us.
I believe it was “RMS Titanic ” 😉
Very astute …
Experience teaches that rats to wily to be trapped are best poisoned.
Margaret Brennan made him look like a fool in that interview but then that probably isn’t the first time a woman has made McCarthy look like a fool!!! Apparently he cut some kind of back room deal with FJB, Shumer and McConnell to get Ukraine funding into the budget so Matt Gaetz is right he has lied straight to the American people’s FACE!!! OUST HIM! 🥴
I’m not sure sure he’s got all that in the bag. He seems shook. I think he’s not quite as confident as he pretends to be that he can survive Matt Gaetz putting the bullseye on his forehead. Matt is probably not the only Republican who’s not particularly fond of Ms Luntz.
McCarthy is not especially bright.
Unfortunately McCarthy wants to secure Ukraine’s border, not ours.
This is good. I will use it on the Ukie sympathizers in work.
Welp, they’ve cocked that up too…
At this point it doesn’t *seem* possible that things could be worse.
Still I wonder just how could those people screw up securing the US-Mexico border, if they tried to do that?
Accidentally give New Mexico to the Sinaloa Cartel? Not in underworld terms, but actually physically give away the whole state.
The bad news: This country is in serious trouble
The good news:
We still have an intact constitution.
McCarthy’s and many many more politicians true colors are still and exponentially coming to light.
The games and deception that is being play with us by many are coming to light in increasing measure to every individual, and to our population as a whole.
We the People are becoming more and more resistant to being fooled and played
As Sundance says: we are smarter than them.
We have Truth on our side
There are more of us than them.
Without our money and our labor they are seriously handicapped.
We are still a blessed nation, and God’s blessings still are in abundance.
The blessings of our Creator that really matter, can never be taken from us
For such a time as this, we were created. Like the Apostles, like the American Colonists
Sundance’s directives are true — be the best person you can be, one day at a time.
Whether we be Jews in Dachow, Isrealites in Egypt, starving in Ethiopia, economically spiraling in Venezuela, or Americans STILL in the greatest nation in the world thanks to the faith of our founders: Nothing that really matters to us eternally can be taken away from us.
To once again sacrifice our lives, fortunes, and sacred honor is a small price to pay. The bigness of our enemy is but an illusion, just as it was to David.
Our “enemy” IS us… the People are soaking in their selfishness, entertainment and greed, and none as obvious as our youth. If they were growing in wisdom and moral clarity I’d be hopeful but they’re not.
Amen. The People are MIA, as welded to their Internet chairs as the border gates are welded open.
The decades-long dereliction of self-governance obligations is coming home to roost.
totally.
worthless.
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If memory serves me correct, Enacting Clause
was supposed to be one subject matter written on the face of enacting clause,
versus of what they”enact” now totalling thousands of different subject matters.
Truly “Trillions are at stake” is why these “Rulers” refuse to abide by
the legality of individual subject bills or whatever they want to call it.
Honestly, they, throughout the many decades have become drunkards. The people have been running the distilleries for their vanities. Sad to say, and
Vice a versa…
…”take no oaths, for your yeas will be yeas and nays will be nays”…
Sure, tie border funding to Ukraine. I’m certain the Ukraine money will be spent. I don’t see the Biden administration spending border money. If they do they will spend it removing Texas razor wire.
He represents California, advised by California, scared to lose the meal ticket.
“This is personal.” His talking points are in lockstep with the MarxMerdia.
Well, finally the situation is up to us. The algorithms can only tolerate so much deviation. The pressure is really on them, and even the inner city people are awakening. Focus, focus focus. Attend, politely disrupt, City halls and 15 minute Cites speech. School Boards and speak. Anything one is capable of.
Some house GOP members ready to rumble with Gaetz
https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/10/01/some-house-gop-members-ready-to-rumble-with-gaetz-n581699
HotAir, the work of Trump-loathing Allahpundit. That used to be my daily perch until SD set me straight.
If McCarthy gets money for the border they will use it to help immigrants come in, not secure it. So forget about it. No money for Ukraine or the border.
He’s tap dancing on a tightrope. Trying to please everybody.
The system’s inherent flaws have created this mess. We’re in rescue mission mode, recovering the traces of greatness DC had in the beginning. These clowns are never going to work for us.
A republic is a system of elected elites using us voters and taxpayers to create a cabal of insiders that get to make all the deals to their liking. Re-election is typically rewarded for playing along.
Just try and get even 50 of them out without them retiring. Once in they know how to network with the media lobbies to stay in.
It cannot function with these betrayers in place. It’s either us or them.
So what would be in the “Border Security” Bill that would put a halt to 100.000+ military age males a month invading?
What a charade. There are no ‘illegal aliens’ because there are no borders. The Declaration of North America (DNA) signed by Biden on January 10 eliminated North America’s borders. There are no consitutional rights. Those were suspended via Public Health Emergency. The overthrow of America is completely legal.
Now we await the Marburg outbreak.
The entire Globalists apparatus vs a single patriot.
David vs Goliath
Gaetz is playing this one brilliantly, as evidenced by the media’s uncomfortable response to his strategy. The media would love to report on Republican party in-fighting, but then Gaetz gets to expose the UniParty and that makes them cower. Gaetz is kicking ass right now.
I’m no fan of McCarthy or the DC establishment, but McCarthy did say the magic phrase: “I think President Trump’s going to be our nominee and President Trump’s going to win because President Trump’s policies made America stronger.”
What a weasel.
He would not come straight out and endorse Trump.
He’ll tie border money to Ukraine money.
Screw Ukraine.
Kevin McCarthy is a slimeball.
When you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
RINO scumbag.
McCarthy, Ryan and Cantor wrote “Young Guns” years ago. They were going to take over Congress.
We ejected Cantor and Ryan from Congress.
It’s time to do the same with McCarthy. I never trusted Gaetz, but he’s a useful tool right now.
Just like people whining about Blue Cities, Republicans need to STFU and deal with it
THEY wanted him, THEY elected him, THEY had many opportunities to stop this, but decided to back McCarthy instead
Right, MTG?
I am not bound by the bad decisions of MTG or Donald J Trump. I know Kevin is an enemy. Trump and MTG will just have to catch up.
Kevin McCarthy has taken sleaze to a whole new level.
I’m shocked, shocked!, that Frank Luntz’s roommate is dishonest.
Does Frank know?
He will after he takes a poll.
Border security means more money to sanctuary cities.
Another insurance policy is Kevin and his band of RINO’s losing the majority in 2024 and Jeffries becoming the speaker. This will impede Trump should he beat the cheat and win the WH. If Trump loses the Republic is lost with Jeffries as speaker and any democrat as president.
Lying comes so easy to this earwig.
The McCarthy – Lindsay Graham NEOCON’s will have their war the rest of us be damned.
If the American electorate doesn’t wake up, meaning some democrats and all of the Republicans, we will be in perpetual war while living in totalitarian America for likely the rest of my life – however long the Lord is pleased to give me.
I admit it is very frustrating to keep losing battles to the McCarthyites and Grahams but we cannot stop fighting. The leftist devils won’t stop and we’d better not either.
“We” haven’t even started.
When I now look at McCarthy, he looks smarmy to me. You know that kind of guy who’s incredibly phony, says what people want to hear, lies easier than cognating a statement and is totally void of morals, scruples and conscience. In addition he references family, children and wife while still closeted living with Frank Luntz an “out of the closet” gay. And, I bet he’s the catcher…