According to multiple DC media sources, a quiet effort is underway by members of the professionally republican mindset to kick Matt Gaetz out of the House Republican caucus. However, the advocates worry they will be primaried by voters in their district, as the population of Republican voters supports Gaetz. It is a duplicitous dynamic.
Meanwhile, Kevin McCarthy has told his Republican conference that despite prior statements, he will not attempt to become the House Speaker again and will instead retire to his home district in California.
No one is quite sure what comes next; what is clear is that Gaetz has channeled the frustration of the Republican/MAGA base into an actionable result. This should not come as a surprise to the GOPe, although many of the cloistered clan continue pretending not to understand the dynamic at play.
Allow me to provide some simple clarity.
♦ In 2009 72% of the country, and an even larger percentage of the Republican voters, did not want Obamacare. The govt takeover of healthcare was along purely ideological grounds. For the 2010 midterm election, the professional Republican apparatus campaigned on this single issue – repeal Obamacare. The voters destroyed the Democrats and flipped 67 seats to Republican control. The professional Republicans wanted the House, frustrated American voters gave it to them.
The Republicans did nothing.
♦ In 2012, the professional Republicans campaigned on retaining the House and asked to begin a process of taking down the Democrat control of the Senate. Remember, it was a 60/40 Senate when the Obamacare boondoggle was begun. Keep the House, help us take Senate seats, and we will repeal Obamacare and balance the budget. That was the call of the 2012 professional Republicans. The voters delivered. The GOPe kept the house, took 6 seats in the Senate and introduced a wave of fresh Republican blood.
The Republicans did nothing.
♦ In the 2014 midterm election, the professional Republicans campaigned on retaining the House and now flipping the Senate with more GOP seats. Keep the House, give us the Senate majority, and we will repeal Obamacare and deliver a balanced budget. The voters again delivered. Beginning in January 2015, the Republicans controlled the House and the Senate majorities for Obama’s last two years.
The Republicans did nothing.
Worse still, even with professional Republican control of both chambers of congress, President Obama never had to use his veto pen.
♦ In the 2016 election, after the professional Republicans could no longer stop/block candidate Donald Trump, they said if we get the White House, retain the House and retain the Senate, we will repeal Obamacare, return to regular budgetary order, and balance the budget. Stunningly, against all the odds, the voters yet again delivered. President Trump won the election; Republicans now held the White House, the House and the Senate – as requested.
The Republicans did nothing.
Worse still, the professional Republicans acted as if they were the dog that just caught the car. Now they had no excuses, and as a result there was an exodus of retirements announced from the caucus of the professionally Republican to begin in 2018.
Simultaneously, the professional Republicans passively allowed the targeting of Donald Trump by a fully weaponized intelligence apparatus and justice system to commence. To say the professionally Republican were willfully blind would be polite and generously honest.
In the background the RNC did nothing. The California ballot harvesting operation of 2018 reflected a complete lack of action by the RNC or CA GOP. We all well remember how that operation expanded nationwide in 2020, again with the RNC doing nothing.
This is the reality of what took place between the elections of 2010 and 2020. Every ask of the professionally rRpublican apparatus was delivered by voters. Every ask of the voters in return was ignored. Effective January 2021, Obamacare still exists, no budget was ever produced, the borders were unsecured, the economy tanked due to Biden policy, energy and printing presses. Crises, along with insufferable government mandates, amplified and expanded from coast to coast.
The Green New Deal was passed by Republicans and Democrats, and the collapse of the economy came with it.
Clear enough?
Suddenly, as if there was no background of repeated broken promises and a complete failure to deliver on any key request, Kevin McCarthy and his legion of professionally Republican supporters pretend they cannot fathom why the base voters are more than happy to support Matt Gaetz.
WASHINGTON DC – Kevin McCarthy will not seek the speakership again, marking a devastating end to his time in GOP leadership.
The California Republican informed his members behind closed doors Tuesday night that he will forsake another attempt to win the top job after his ouster on Tuesday, according to seven people familiar with the remarks.
His announcement comes amid intense anger over his ouster by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and seven other GOP members, who voted with House Democrats to eject him earlier Tuesday. Most Republicans vocally opposed his eviction.
McCarthy told his conference that he would return to California to spend time with his family. In his stead, the House will be run by Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), his hand-picked choice as acting speaker. House Republicans have no plans to return to session until next week, scrapping their plans to try to pass party-line spending bills.
The vacancy atop the House is sure to set off a scramble among ambitious Republicans — one that’s likely to get dirty and dragged-out, particularly if McCarthy’s deputies try to ascend. The GOP agrees that the most obvious choices are Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) and Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), all of whom had publicly backed McCarthy until he bowed out.
“I might have been given a bad break, but I’m still the luckiest man alive,” McCarthy said, according to multiple people in the room when he revealed he would not, as he’d vowed, keep trying to stay speaker.
[…] Republicans are willing to admit one thing: No one knows what the coming days, or weeks, will bring. (read more)
At some point the RNC is going to have to start dumping the establishment clowns that have ruined the party. They have to grow a pair and start making good on promises. It’s too late for the incumbent jackasses that have talked big and done nothing. It’s McCarthy’s own fault he lost his seat. He has managed to bargain it away to the democrats. When democrats are in power they use it. Republicans try to loose it. The base was easy to loose. It follows the people like Trump and Gaetz. The republicans got good at being losers. They had nearly 100 years to learn how. Wonder how long it will take them to learn to keep their promises.
Stop pretending the GOP or RNC gives a hoot about “winning” anything.
Reality Check is dropping truth bombs.
The RNC are the RINO’s. It is a private club run by RINO’s for RINO’s
The whole Congress is a private club, and we’re not in it…they care not a whit for the people, they just want the votes to stay in power. And they have shown that the votes can be manufactured to that end – who needs the peasants?
There is a hard truth in the ending of your post, but the time for throwing out our trash is in the primaries.
I’m always amused when I read/hear people refer to weak-kneed (or worse) Republicans as “RINOs.” RINO is an acronym for Republican In Name Only. That isn’t a factual or accurate description of these people. That is exactly who “Republicans” are and have always been. Sundance is correct in referring to them as GOPe or as the Professional Republican class, as that is who/what they really are. The Republican party has always been the party of rich elitists, interested only in whatever further enriches them. The conservatives that joined the GOP to create the Reagan Revolution have had to settle for using this party to try to advance conservative ideas or agendas – and nearly always meeting with resistance, half-steps, or outright defiance. The country club class is never going to pursue a conservative or populist agenda. NEVER. Conservatives are the real RINOs, since we are members of the Republican party only because the other options are completely unacceptable.
You are not actually wrong, but I’m old enough that I campaigned for Reagan in 1976, against Gerald Ford. We didn’t have the term RINOs yet, we called them Rockefeller Republicans for the liberal billionaire governor of New York, or country club Republicans. The point was they cared about big businesses especially Wall Street, but we’re a lot less interested in individual liberties, culture, or small businesses. I think that is still a basic characterization of many we are facing in the GOPe, it isn’t the complete story of course, because there are some genuine left wingers who have infiltrated our party. Adam Kinzinger and Mitt Romney being very good examples. They would hope you mistook them for mere country club republicans, but they are far too disloyal to every principle the country has.
I would say that capsulizes the last 13-14 years rather eloquently and concisely. Thanks for continuing to do what you do, Sundance.
There’s a conspiracy theory circulating that Matt Gaetz is a closet NeverTrumper and that he ousted McCarthy on behalf of DeSantis…
I have trouble believing that, but we do know that Matt Gates claimed to have talked with Trump and that Trump was supporting him, only to have it come out that Trump did not support what he was doing.
I fear we may have fallen for another Ray Epps, and end up with Hakeem Jeffries as speaker, or a ‘republican’ chosen by him. We would have a very hard time digging our way out from under that.
If you dangle a treat in front of a dog to get him to play tricks but then pull the treat away before he can get it, the dog will eventually figure the game out and stop playing. GOPe voters are dumber than dogs.
“Mitch should be next and no waiting”
Golden words!
Wrong. If they lose in 2024 it won’t be because Speaker was ousted. Only 8 people listened to their voters screaming. McCarthy gave 2 Dems the best offices over his own party. Idiots were loyal to him bc they got paid millions- NOT because he did anything voters demanded. THE ISSUE – BIGGEST ISSUE IS FREEDOM- LIBERTY. J6 IS THE ISSUE AND HE DID NOTHING. He could have said I’ll do a deal if ALL J6 go home. He never said squat. Never intended to show tapes. Never intended to call off militarized IRS agents Never cared 30million illegals are here. Every cartel every South-central American gang is here in every major city. Never cared that Chinese military are here in hundreds of thousands. He believed he could have power by betraying basic morals and his word meant nothing. He took millions from FTX and gave to Dems to beat conservatives so he could be Speaker. Cocky Smug suckup. Paul Ryan arse kisser. Lost in 2015 and should never have won. Gaetz was up against all of House and finally agreed. Stop listening to fear MONGERING fake GOP. ONE PERSON DOES NOT MAKE AN ELECTION FOR 400+ districts. The NO voters should all go. It’s a putrid joke the Scalise and any McCarthy YES vote should even run. THEY DON’T GRASP – We DESPISE them. Chip Roy hadn’t seen his kids this month- wash. Military would say that’s a short time away- try one or two or three years. My dad went to Vietnam 3 times! Shot down once. Went back again. Grow up Chip- better yet RESIGN.
Let’s see who ends up as speaker of the house before we analyze the results.
BEYOND stupid and dumb.
Repealing Obamacare was never going to happen because specific provisions in the bill were a lot more popular than what falsely promised to the base.
(No kickoff for pre-existing health conditions was in Obamacare and it was WILDLY popular)
As for the “Green New Deal”?
WTF? 🤡🤭🤦♂️ 🙄🥴
What piece of legislation was passed called
“the Green New Deal?”
Trump said in campaign that he would get rid of state borders and force health insurance to compete. He got immediately lobbied by BigPharma and insurance and never touched it again. WHY? He never intended to give Americans FREE ENTERPRISE CAPITALISM HEALTH INSURANCE.
His hidden prescription plan that didn’t work was o my for Vets anyway.
True reform: eliminate VA completely fire everyone of them. Give Vets a card good at any doctor anywhere for any service. Best of the best in psych, legs, arms, burn victims all of it. IT WILL STILL SAVE BILLIONS of dollars. Have clearance agency paying doctor bills and be done w VETS getting shafted. Best way to enlist people is knowing they will be cared for w excellence.
NEXT: All insurance companies compete across USA. NO Corp saying come here we have great insurance. If companies want to pay yours, they can add it to your paycheck but you choose and get what you want.
PRESCRIPTIONS: One regulated and only one regulated companies. Yearly gross profit no more than 10%.
All prescriptions SAME PRICE FOR EVERYONE.
no middleman, (GoodRX, Cuban) mfg to pharmacy. No warehouses w special prices. Drugs same for everyone- sick, not sick, elderly, poor rich SAME PRICE. END OF GOVT INVOLVEMENT.
When conservatives demand this from Trump and their representatives the entire health industry will lose million dollar lobbyists, grifters, conmen and return to health care.
You can only lie to us just so many times before we know that we can’t trust a word you say RINOs!
So now McCarthy steals Lou Gehrig’s quote. The luckiest man alive runs away to California
To his home- go online and look at his home. TWO swimming pools. Indoor and outdoors! Cartels are all over his area- paying him millions to allow it.
McCarthy isn’t fit to shine Lou Gehrig’s shoes. He never was.
From whom am I waiting for approval?
Those of us who are veterans of intra-party warfare in Californa in the 1980’s and 90’s know all about McCarthy. He was the leading RINO organizer in the state. He did everything he could to defeat conservatives in the GOP primaries. At the time, he was COS for ultra RINO Bill Thomas, the most disgusting liberal Republican in the house who lead the charge against Reagan on virtually the entire Reagan agenda. McCarthy spent years tried to rid the party of conservatives so those of us who worked against him always knew that his role as speaker would be to stop the Trump agenda. Which he tried to do the entire time Trump was in office. Despite what Marc Levin, the RNC and the rest of the “mainstream” Republicans leadership is telling you on the various news channels, removing McCarthy is essential to ever pursuing any agreements with the Dems which are meaningful. Virtually all the deals McCarthy signed with the Dems screwed America and the conservative movement. Why? Because he hates us and has more in common with liberal ideology. Nothing new here folks.
This was a very significant event, when some of congress finally stood up on their hind legs and demanded to vote on each policy individually, rather than the imperial omnibus.
My instinct is the people should, and do, have their back, but expect the usual dirty tricks and scandals to unfold downstream.
They are trying to pass this off as a “populist” or “get more clicks” strategy, completely ignoring that the DC business as usual mode revolves around the issue Matt Gaetz and his cohorts have fingered as the main sin of the departed speaker, enforcement of the omnibus spending bill model.
Huge long bills pass everything the lobbyists ask for, in fact they usually write the bill.
This is what needs attention, not this or that political issue, but the process of spending decisions itself. Congress needs to re-assert glandular control, there’s no room for “DC business as usual” remaining, as we approach soaring debt levels.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1709400930482000060.html
Matt rocked the gravy boat.
Everything Sundance says here is correct. If all we care about is to send an emotion-laden message to the GOPe leadership, dumping McCarthy did that.
But I don’t know yet who will be chosen speaker on Wednesday.
We may find out that we were misled by another Ray Epps.
Brian C. Joondeph, M.D. refers to this piece by Sundance in his latest column for American Thinker:
Trump’s Not the Problem – He’s the Reaction to the Problem – American Thinker