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)
Battered Conservative no more!
Luckiest man alive? To have been Speaker?
Wow, what a low sense of worth.
Luckiest people alive are the American-born who are anonymous to their own government. Land of the free, pioneered by the brave, still waving the flag, and living by the Bible’s counsel. To be left alone to live one’s life among the moral and free, those are the luckiest.
Serial adulterer declares himself luckiest man alive.
Retiring to spend more time with his scorned spouse.
Winning?
😜
What about his “roommate?”
Crazy weird thing to say. Rather unfortunate.
Has he been sleeping with Luntz again?
Worse.
PS Do these people know how horrible our comments are? LOL!
I hope so.
Family is the number one excuse of any elected official when they need to become a distant memory.
I would imagine he has been given the “thank you for playing” letter, by the power brokers.
They are going to a plan B. I get the impression it might be scorched earth. If a Democrat ends up speaker, don’t be surprised.
I suspect as Speaker he got a bump in pay and a cushy pension. What a parasite.
And more opportunities for payoffs and graft.
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Surely Paul Ryan will get him a gig at Faux.
McCarthy really likes to hear himself talk.
Did he make a stop on K Street while on is way out of town?
AMEN evergreen AMEN
Maybe he has ALS. He lives in an echo chamber…Today…today…today…I consider myself…myself…myself…and visions of grandeur.
That POS Kevin (Charlie) McCarthy stole Lou Gehrig’s line.
Lou gave it as part of his “Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth” farewell at Yankee Stadium in 1939. The seemingly indestructible Gehrig was going home to die. He was thanking the fans who backed him during his career.
Charlie McCarthy, by the way, was a woodenhead ventriloquist doll used by Edgar Bergen. Just like Kevin McCarthy is the dummy used by the wealthy globalists.
And Kevin (Charlie) is now a plaigiarist stooge, like the other woodenhead Pedo Joe.
I don’t believe any of them have ever had an original thought. They are all (but a very few) wooden-headed marionettes who are happy to have their strings pulled by their masters. Disgusting. I am ready to begin filling the tumbrils with these jerks who think they own us. We. Will. Be. Free!
Maybe he’s referring to MTG… speaking of… I wonder if she dumps Kev now that he’s lost his special parking spot up front…
My rep, hageman voted with the professional republicans to keep mcFailure.
She lost my vote.
That’s upsetting.
They got to her quickly.
I think she was gotten before she was elected. She and liz were pals before liz showed her true colors. Her efforts to distance herself from liz were somewhat anemic.
She talks a good talk, but when the rubber met the road, she ran away.
How often have we seen the same among those who love to spew the party line? The whole corrupt house needs to be pulled down.
Either before or after their initial election, they are made aware of the (Uniparty) machine that controls election outcomes.
IF they have aspirations of a CAREER in politics, if they enjoy the graft, and want to keep it flowing, while building up a great retirement plan, they will do as they are told.
It really isn’t that complicated, and doesn’t require blackmail, per se.
Just massive and pervasive greed, Dutch. I for one am SICK OF IT.
Sundance has told us time and time again that Dems want POWER and GOP want MONEY!
100%
I believe both Republican and Democrat politicians want money and power.
The money comes from big donors with strings, always strings. Therefore the priorities of politicians are those of the big donors. Both parties give lip service to their ‘constituents’ but they vote for donors interests. We are Fed up, big time!
We do not support open borders, we do not support war expenditures in Ukraine, we do not support the UN agenda, we do not support the green new deal, we do not support eliminating ICE vehicles in favor of EV’s, we do not support censorship, we do not support forced Covid vaccinations, we do not support globalism.
We support putting the best interests of America and Americans.
Listen up
Politicians. You are supposed to work for us.
They forgot that – if they ever acknowledged it.
Or the DS/IC controllers of those election selections:
“Money or a bullet”
Money from grift and bribes, job security, sexual deviations satiated, and a retirement when we’re done with you;
Or,
Blackmail/extortion destroys you, disenfranchised, assets seized, shame, imprisonment, accident, ‘suicide’ or murder.
The Fourth Branch controls them all and that is how they do it.
She plans to be in Sundance WY Oct 9. Some of us may make the drive to say hello.
Please do, and ask why.
Please tell her we all all of US are watching her
Hopefully, a discussion will ensue…
Give her the Flimsy Graham “welcome”!
Please go if at all possible and make her defend and explain Wyoming T.
Would love to see the look on her face. Lizzy 2.0, anyone?
Oh man, what a surprise. Ugh!
Ouch, she seemed like a keeper, now, not so much.
We all should be looking closely at that vote. Mike Ezell betrayed South MS….He won’t get my vote again.
We need to stop being surprised, no matter how great their rhetoric sounded on the campaign trail. If they’re running as Republican, assume the worst unless after two terms (which should be their limit!), they’ve consistently proven otherwise. Only 8 House Republicans voted McCarthy out. Reps like Gaetz are an anomaly. And I’d argue that will likely never change unless until the 17th Amendment is repealed (Pipe dream), Term Limits, Campaign Finance Reform, etc.
My rep, Brian Mast, voted against the CR, but not against Kev. He’s not one for taking a strong stand on controversial matters.
He will NOT speak strongly against nation-ending issues, like invasion, like the budget, like losing the reserve currency status, the debt, and the constant, excessive spending.
Ugh.
These manipulative swamp rats know exactly what they’re doing. The playbook is pretty straightforward.
They will only “take a stand” when it is a meaningless one, and they already know they’re outnumbered and their vote won’t make a difference. When their vote DOES make a substantive difference they will not take a stand or rock the
boat.
WE SEE THEM NOW.
TERM LIMITS – nuff said!!!
So did mine Boebert.
Like you said jus wundrin, she has lost my support.
I will be asking her point-blank tomorrow how she voted – she is my rep, too, and I had not heard if/how she voted. If for McC, I will be very, very disappointed.
I suspect that there are a number of those who would usually vote with us, but are not strategic or tactical thinkers. They fear what they don’t know more than what they do…
It will take a miracle for us to get a good, experienced, tough new Speaker. Between the devil and deep blue sea..
I suspect Matt has more up his sleeve and that he has thought this out carefully, all available options. He would not have taken this step just off the top of his head.
Oh they know. They just don’t care about what the country wants. RINOs are angry that McCarthy didn’t retain his seat and they will go after Matt Gaetz, but never believe they don’t understand. They just don’t believe they have to answer to the American people anymore.
Given the blatant fraud in the 2020 election, they may be right in their assessment that they don’t have to answer to the American people.
The final straw for me was when Mcmealymouth was seen grinning ear to ear after the debt ceiling sell out. He was just laughing at us–like he just expected us to bend over and ask for another.
Trump for Speaker
Won’t happen. The man is bit busy right now, running for President in between the malicious kangaroo court trials by the crime gang.
I believe he can still run the House while campaigning and the rest.
This might be wishful thinking but doesn’t the speaker have immunity? If so does the legal bullshit go away?
The RINOS would never accept him.
That kind of says it all right there doesn’t it?
Make them vote nay.
Make them vote and no bathroom breaks, even if they pull something.
Like the fire alarm…?
Someone really needs to flush that ignant oaf.
Yes. They are really exposing their true agenda, aren’t they. As long as We the People were complacently buying all their bs and supporting their campaigns and not calling them out on their lies, they had everything their way. The uniparty has kept us divided and distracted for a long time. People are finally waking up, and not a moment too soon. Now we must find a way to unite and ACT. They–the self-appointed elitist jerks who think they own us–will never actually represent us. They are too busy looking after themselves and their delusional masters who think they are gods.
Let them go on record as voting against Trump for Speaker then.
They would have to if they want to get some DEALS DONE
…let alone the Demonrats. You’d see their heads spinning around. But President Trump does love to troll them. {;o)
The Speaker does have full immunity from prosecution, both civil and criminal.
Good point.
Plus, they aren’t at work much.
That’s not accurate at all. You’re referring to the Speech or Debate clause of the US Constitution (Article 1, section 6). It says Congress is immune from ARREST (not from indictment or from having to answer subpoenas), ONLY when participating in session, and with three specifically stated exceptions to the immunity – Treason, FELONY, and Breach of the Peace. The idea of Parliamentary Immunity is a limited protection intended to assure that members should not be detained just to prevent them from voting.
This limited protection extends to all members, and since 1972, also to Congressional aides. The Speaker gets no extra immunity above the others, and by both Dem and GOP caucus rules, a felony conviction automatically strips them of any leadership positions. The assembled body can also vote to expel them.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S6-C1-2/ALDE_00013354/
What the Speaker says on the floor of the House cannot be questioned in any other place. A great opportunity to unload ALL the Demo Dirt DJT has amassed.
Congress barely works part time. Ron the Meatball manages to be the Governor of FL while campaigning.
People have to let go of their fan-fiction fantasies.
Like I said “ wishful thinking. “
The professional republicans – led by Paul Ryan – intentionally threw the 2018 Hoise race with the specific intent of enabling impeachment of Trump.
I will never forget the look of total shock on McConnell’s face when the GOP gained Senate seats in the phony “blue wave” election. They were supposed to lose, which would have allowed Trump to be removed.
My only quibble is “they did nothing”. They did everything the could to block us.
The great victory of TRUMP was exposing the lies, outright lies, they told us for 30 years.
It’s not that they did nothing. It’s that they are backstabbing duplicitous traitors.
We no longer have to believe the lie.
“They were supposed to lose, which would have allowed Trump to be removed.”
How do you figure that?
They would never have achieved the 2/3 vote necessary to remove him.
It was never going to come to a vote, Ron B.
The “Insurance policy” concieved by McConnell and Ryan back in 2015, and relayed to Comey and the IC to implement, was modeled after Watergate.
Recall, Repub Senators never HAD to go on record, voting to convict Nixon, they just told Tricky Dick that they HAD the votes, and that “for good of party and country, you must resign!”.
Lindsey had been rehearsing the line for 2 years, as he was the designated messenger.
PDJT was SUPPOSED to fire Mueller team, making the need for any report irrelevant.
Ryan ushered 40 incumbent R House members, that could easily have won reelection out the door, gifting the gavel to Nancy, because R’s could not be SEEN as doing what Nanzi did, in setting up the bogus Impeachments.
And, the actives, Comey, McCabe, etc. would NEVER have set up the Insurance policy (in 2015/16) without assurances the House would flip in 2018, and ONLY Ryan could give that assurance.
Scumbags!!
I have one difference of opinion with you on this, Dutch.
I think the DS/IC through the CIA relayed to McConnell and Comey on what the plan was and directed on how to implement and what their roles would be.
Neither McConnell nor Comey were smart enough or individually powerful enough to pull that off from a strategic thinking perspective. Always remember, it was Brennan keeping Obama and crew briefed at the White House what was being conducted overseas and at home from 2014-15 all the way up to those infamous WH meetings January 2017 right before Trump took office. Comey nor McConnell were privileged to that.
McConnell nor Comey sure as Hell were NOT giving Brennan orders nor specifics on how and where to conduct his operations. Trump was perceived as a threat by the CIA way before McConnell even thought that Trump could possibly win and the IC were already up and running an op against Trump as a contingency plan as they felt threatened by someone who they did not and perceived they could not control.
It was the other way around. Guaranteed!
Thank you for this clear analysis of our recent political history.
And Black Knight….The whole scheme falls into place. Thank you both.
True, but I think they’d have delivered the needed votes.
3rd paragraph – you don’t know that for sure.
Has the D’s had a majority in the Senate, it would not have taken but a few R’s to cross the line and Trump could have possibly been convicted on an impeachment.
They would have needed 4-5 votes, which the Republicans would have happily sold them under the auspices of the “blue wave” mandate. Romney, Collins, Murkowski, +2.
and this oust only worked by taking advantage of your enemy’s greed (democrats and a few Repubs)
As Baris said, if McCarthy had done his job, maybe Trump could’ve made calls to save his ass instead of being stuck in court. Or better yet, not been in court at all. The GOPe for too long have cared about nothing their voters want the DNC uses the media to hypnotize their voters into the same kind of hive mind that has plagued history in the past.
The Democrats voting to oust McCarthy should come as no surprise to them, either. But I suppose it might just be for the cameras. Maybe they’re having cocktails later? While I’d like a shutdown, we know these people will find all of the pennies underneath our couches to send to Ukraine so it can go into their bank accounts.
After they take our pennies they’ll be yanking our gold fillings to send to the Ukraine money laundromat.
Biden needs to get his 10%.
There’s some hope over the horizon.
People are getting red pilled in the strangest way. Was talking to a female
coworker. Big, big, big, big time dem. Trump hater, but polite about it.
Was discussing the speaker being ousted.
“I hope whoever they put in doesn’t give one more damn penny
to Ukraine”.
Her words. I’m still scraping my chin off the floor from my reaction.
Folks are waking up, in the strangest ways.
If only we could get the same reaction to the fiasco at the border.
Try cluing her into their efforts to provoke World War Three, widen that crack.
I am just stumped about something….if Mccarthy broke his promises and he basically was a RINO….why did the democrats want him out? Am I missing something?
Gaetz called this earlier in the year. Jefferies as Speaker, the first black Democrat speaker of the house, would be historic for them.
RINOs aren’t the friends of Democrats. RINOs aren’t the friends of Conservatives, either.
Many RINOs are friends of Democrats: McConnell and Biden are good friends from their Senate days.
Remember Orrin Hatch was good friends with Ted Kennedy?
By the term “friends,” I assume you mean punching bags for Democrats?
The GOPe and Dems are the right and left wing of the same vulture. The GOPe relies on the Dems enacting unconstitutional, fiscally ruinous legislation so it doesn’t have to take leadership on such…they are craven grifters.
Democrats thrive on Republican chaos.
Have you ever been in a relationship where the NPD does everything they can to drive you into a rage of anger, and then stand back and says – wow, you are unstable. That’s the D -vs- R continuum.
Sounds like Alinsky.
Or my Ex.
Hot dang, if you were ever mine…you would never, ever have had an X! ❤️
Are you blushing?
Une peu!
Moi aussi!
I get Addams family vibes from this exchange.
🤣🤣🤣
Ha mine too…its called “pushing their buttons” .
NPD? please spell it out….
Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
thanks
Which fits into “The Dark Triad”….of which has been studied as it is prevalent amongst CEO’s and politicians of all flavors.
Narcissistic personality disorder…
Jinx!
NOPE, ” OWE ME a Beer ( or Drink of Pop ) ”
GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE, SOME ARE Faster with the Keyboard or Internet Connection –
thanks
Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Read all about it….
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder
thanks
Don’t have to. Was married to it for just short of 30 years.
😕
Sort of jumped the gun. Actually she was Borderline Personality
Disorder. There’s some similarities on how they attack people, and
why. She got the proper drugs and leveled out. We were pretty happy
the final two years. She’ll be gone 3 years come February.
Narcissistic personality disorder
Yeah, I did a search on it, and Narcissistic Pers. Dis. is what came up. Makes sense now!
Accurate summation of the Ukraine event as well.
Best advice I’ve ever heard… “There’s no point to getting angry because half the people don’t know and the other half don’t give a…
My father in law says “She’ll get over it or she’ll die angry about it.” He spends a lot of time in the garage or woodshop.
I am now emailing everyone on my Republican list some very bad things.
Stop resisting!
Resisting what?
If you’re talking about our MAGA efforts against the GOPe, then you got another thing coming.
No pushing for Bobby sucks today?
👁️👁️👁️
NPD=narcissistic personality disorder.
Thank you
absolutely.
NPD 101 – provoke a situation to claim victim status for the NPD.
“i called you a fat, ugly, liar and now you’re yelling at me? how can you be so mean?”
actual perpetrator then gets away with the bad behavior,
plus a sadistic bonus of painting the actual victim as the bad guy.
it’s manipulation on a grand, and very disturbed, scale.
Because they couldn’t be seen by their base as supporting a Republican? That’s how clueless their base is, not having yet caught on to the reality of the Uniparty.
I don’t know.
They would rather be dead in a ditch than vote for a Republican.
Because Gaetz played this masterfully. Uniparty dems wanted to throw McCarthy a lifeline, and McCarthy fully expected it, but doing so would too vividly expose the full extent of uniparty collaboration.
If you watched the vote, Pelosi was a no-show for the expulsion vote – she just couldn’t do it to her partner.
She is being expelled from her office, in spite, for not following thru with the Uniparty assist she likely committed to earlier.
Last-minute, they decided the risk to Uniparty rule wasn’t worth saving McCarthy’s hide. The backdoor Ukraine deal would have exposed it all.
Sounds Possible
Good theory. Makes sense.
The death of the backdoor Ukraine deal is more satisfying than McCarthy going back to Communist California.
We will be taking names on the Ukraine War vote.
Hey, what happened to MTG, Bobaert, Ana Paulina Lina, Zinke, Byron Donalds? I have a long memory.
It would have been a vote of certification for the Uniparty. Can’t have that. Still pretending. This is one closet nobody’s coming out of, yet.
You are correct. This was a goal of Gaetz…if they lost it would be because the democrats would have saved him. The uniparty would be exposed to all who have eyes.
Gaetz actually said this very clearly and explicitly in his answers to questions from “the press” after he made the motion to vacate.
I agree. If you listen to the proceedings the man conducting the festivities calls for just a voice vote.
All of the “yeas” were really soft and barely heard. (Uniparty doing what the uniparty does).
All of the “nays” were loud and commanding.
The man declared the “nays” the winners and KMac still Speaker of the House.
THAT is when Gaetz called for a roll call vote.
When the other side is digging a hole just hand them a bigger shovel and stand back. They saw the chaos the GOP went through in January “selecting” a Speaker and all the deals McCarthy had to make to get the job. Guess what we will be focused on now? Not Biden stumbling over his shoes or young Hunter trying to dodge Gun felony charges or the Biden banking receipts it will be the House Republicans trying to find a leader. The Dems just handed them a bigger shovel.
Like Sundance said earlier Chaos!
To those who believe congress is some ethical, responsible governing body, congressional chaos is a bad thing.
To those who believe congress is a corrupt bunch of grifting opportunists, congressional chaos = sand in the gears and is a good thing.
An old friend used to purposely vote one party for congress and
the other party for president. This is before Obama. His reasoning
was that way they wouldn’t be able to actually get anything done.
Which was a good thing.
Well, now that the UNIPARTY has been exposed, we know that it is THEM versus MAGA not RINO versus Commie Dem.
The deals McCarthy had to make were just “do an honest good job for the American People”. McCarthy would not even do that.
Look at the infighting already. Levin screaming on air saying they voted with the marxists. Gingrich calling them traitors. Shapiro blathering. Democrats are just sitting back and watching the republitards eat their own for now.
You shall know them by their fruits.
These people get paid by the same corporations.
If Gingritch Levin etc. are screaming, and foaming at the mouth over this, its a GOOD THING.
the next speaker has less need to pretend, and can pretend the party is being hijacked and instead rely on bipartisan votes (Democrat crossover votes)
not sure how possible that is
“…there was an exodus of retirements announced from the caucus of the professionally Republican to begin in 2018.”
This was no accident. It was an intentional act to throw the House to the dems. I seem to remember some article back then that provided some evidence that this was true.
Feels like this was all planned. His tough guy attitude, his “bring it on” tweet to Gaetz.. yesterday, was it?
and today…leaving D.C. to go home to “be with family” or
His next gig..
All those repubs posting their “lines” “standing with the Speaker”… fake.
What’s this distracting us from?
Bananas….This is exactly what I mean…..something is up.
Today, I wish I could hear the cleat, insightful voice of Rush one more time.
The RINOs held a funeral for their own strangle of power on the house floor. That’s what happened.
Their grift is over.
Ken Buck acts when his string is pulled. GOPe(?) and dems got rid of the Speaker who had an agreement with the Freedom Caucus. This reeks of Uniparty elevation of a new Bill Barr. Who are the people that voted with Matt Gaetz?
What? There is a 1,000+ thread about what happened today. And an earlier one from while it was happening in real time.
Lots of good information in both.
I phrased my observation poorly. I’ve read and posted and the coalition that ousted McCarthy is causing me pause and caution as Seneca the Elder listed in those 1000+ posts.
I know who Ken Buck is and the names of the others who voted for ouster. Ken Buck has a puff piece from Politico because he opposes impeachment. He believes, as most the GOPe in Colorado, that the election system isn’t corrupted. He never sticks his neck out. I consider him a Club for Growth clone. Are the others who voted with the Dems snakes in the grass as well?
Matt Gaetz voted with the Demoncrats and is somehow now a hero. Bill Barr wrote an Op-Ed in the WSJ that endeared him to PDJT with temporary hero status until he wasn’t..
Are there heroes in this? Seems the Uniparty got any agreements with the Freedom Coalition moved to the sideline along with Kevin McCarthy.
What was the purpose of Ken Buck sticking his neck out? Sundance said that mayhem was the Dems purpose. KB runs from mayhem like his pants are on fire. Remember,”There isn’t evidence of corruption for impeachment.“
Dems and Ken Buck are forced allies. Who told KB to stick his neck out?
Seems that celebrating right now may be premature. There is another shoe to drop..
McCarthy will be a registered lobbyist by Monday.
Some folks here don’t get it. Paul Ryan, George W Bush, Former Speaker Boehner, Mitch McConnell, et. al all are pro China, anti America in order to keep their bank account growing. To not see Gaetz as a hero is to not understand the picture you are seeing. Look again with an open mind and see Gaetz as us; not as one against us. A fight for the next speaker won’t hurt us: Unlimited Continuing Resolutions will.
He’s controlled opposition
Elaborate with proofs and sources, thanks.
Pot calling the kettle black?
I will admit it has been a very good day. Kudos to Matt Gaetz, he did very well.
see over on tgp that the acting speaker mchenry from maryland gave pelosi til tomorrow to vacate her office.and she is in cali for feinstiens funeral.hahahaha.guy might be a rino but i like his style!
McHnery ( little man, Napoleon style ) IS FROM Gastonia, Hickory, Statesville North Carolina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina%27s_10th_congressional_district
Are you sure it’s not the Shire, Middle Earth?
A little mixup. California Governor Brylcreem appointed an obnoxious black lesbian from Maryland to replace Senator Feinstein.
😁😁
I am assuming Dianne Chi stopped breathing?
As Glenn Greenwald said on his podcast the interim speaker may need anger management counseling after the way he slammed that gavel down today. LOL
https://rumble.com/v3mr9cg-system-update-show-148.html
Or a little class and a dollop of humility as a supposed servant of the people.
Maquis, see my post above yours!!! LOL!
Ha! We are going to be in for a bumpy ride!
And I actually met Bette Davis.
That’s my kind of bumpy ride.
Wut?
Carpe Donktum made a meme of the hammer pounder; on twitter, but am sharing the nitter link because I don’t have twitter; 33 seconds:
https://nitter.net/CarpeDonktum/status/1709329723677937800#m
Alternate headline: Little Tool Mishandles Big Tool After McCarthy Ouster
Pretty sure she’s getting the boot because the dems were supposed to save him. Pelosi didn’t deliver.
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Nice take.
Don’t give him any credit, he’s upset that Nancy didn’t save their scheming enterprise. He’s the secret “Speaker Pro Tempor” (sp?) McCarthy selected in case of a nuclear strike.
McHenry was one of the 2 lead “negotiatiors” who gave the Biden regime an unlimited 2-year budget in the last CR. He’s a steaming pile of dung, with a bowtie.
You’ve reminded us how much history of backstabbing before we even get to the Stolen Election, the participation in the coup which was the Stolen Election, the deceit around January 6, the unconstitutional treatment of the innocents made out to be criminals, the bypassing the rules January 6 committee, and the complete failure to address the Stolen Election.
Because none of that matters to these elites.
I’m from MO and I read that Ann Wagner cried at the result. Either they really don’t get it, or they really do hate us, or both.
Both. They are in the Club and we aren’t, they are oblivious.
They get it.
They just hate us.
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Maybe she’s crying because now every one of their ‘election campaigns’ will be scrutinized like they never have been, and these losers know that their last election results (including any primaries) would not be able to stand up to the sunlight, never mind the upcoming one . . .
I guess they would cry. They should cry.
Dear God, please lead us and guide us as a nation!
This seems apropos here:
Battered Conservatives No More – By Sundance
1. We admit we were unaware of our Republican abusers – Our elections have become manipulated.
2. We accept that only a power greater than ourselves can restore our republic.
3. We make a decision to focus our effort and our life to the care of a loving God.
4. We have made a searching and fearless inventory of our prior beliefs.
5. We have admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human, being flawed in our political belief.
6. We are entirely ready to have God free us from defects of character, break our victim mindset and strengthen our resolve.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove our false assumptions.
8. We have made a list of all political abusers, and we commit to holding them all accountable.
9. We accept the need to confront the republican abusers, if even when doing so hurts their feelings.
10. We continue to take personal inventory and if we accept victimization again, we promptly admit it.
11. We seek through prayer and deliberation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for righteous knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had an emotional, intellectual and spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we pledge to carry this message to others who are abused, and to practice these principles of awakening in all our political affairs.
Thank you—that’s real wisdom, and perhaps the very best way forward and through.😁
It is the PERFECT place to post it, Maquis, thank you.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change (abuser RINOS behavior) …
The Courage to change the things I can (MY behavior, like holding my nose,…)
And the Wisdom to know the difference!
In my reading, I have now found the researchers say that it takes “7 to 10 attempts to leave one’s abuser”…..it used to be 7.
Not making excuses for the gope, it does take 60 votes in the senate to do most things. If my memory serves me right, it was traitor mcstain that voted to save obummercare in 2017. In my opinion, obummercare was passed by fraudulent means due to the fact that al franken was illicitly handed the senate seat in Minnesota over Norm Coleman. Had Coleman taken his rightful seat in Minnesota, obummercare would have been stopped by his 41st vote in the senate.
Jeez, I had forgotten about Al Franken. Is he still alive?
I’d say you have covered it correctly.
Maybe. The individual votes are all decided ahead of time, including assigning a few inconsequential MAGA votes to make it look like there was a contest.
Only because of a “rule” that Senate Leadership only put in place fairly recently, and that they COULD rescind any time they wanted to.
The fillibuster rule is a key tool used by the leadership to enable them to thwart the will of the people.
there was SOOOO much fraudulent about passage of Obummercare — the Senate took a bill that had passed in the house, erased its contents and inserted the contents of obummercare into it under its number. Passed at midnite. Dec 24. all of this was fraudulent.
McCarthy = Pelosi 2.0. Hallelujah that Matt Gaetz & others finally ‘took out the trash’.
NOW IS The TIME to DISCERN WHY People VOTED the Way THEY DID.
WAS IT LOYALTY To THE PERSON, WAS IT LOYALTY to THE CONFERENCE, the Congressional Campaign Fund
OR maybe THEIR District’s Interests.
MY BEEF WAS – HE WAS DUPLICIT in ALL KNOWN DEALINGS – The CONSUMMATE Washington CHAMELEON
( i APOLOGIZE To the CHAMELEONS Out There )
I think they voted they way they did because they were ordered to.
Even Harriet H..
Just when you think you’ve an ally in D.C….
I think they thought he would survive and wanted to be on his hood side. In the end dems decided to give him the shiv.
2016 – April – August
Every Congressional republican destroyed Trumps domestic agenda. At that point I knew Trump was finished domestically.
Rep Burchett said KM made some condescending comment about his faith when Burchett told him he’d been praying about what to do. That iced the cake on his vote. Says a lot about what KM is really like.
Is McCarthy leaving the House entirely?
Yes, retiring.
Unclear whether he serves rest of his term as a disgraced former speaker. My guess is no.
Yeah, it occurred to me after posting that we don’t yet know if it’s imminent or at end of term.
Hanging to end of term would be easier on the GOPe in his district, to line up candidates.
Harder on his ego though.
My take is:
He is no longer Speaker, but will serve his term out as Congressman for his district.
Seems likely.
I wondered that too.
If so, then doesn’t Newsom get to pick his replacement?
I don’t think so, I believe that is only for the Senate.
He can go back to trying to run a sandwich shop in Bakersfield. Or “contributing” to his favorite network, FauxNews. He’d make a great guest alongside Tulsi Gabbard, Hotep Jesus, et al. on Gutfeld!, or even adding to Judge Jeanine’s outrage.
Let’s face it. He needed to be primaried anyway and we had the opportunity to do so in Mar 2024. His numbers are miserable as is his track record in CONgress and as SoTH. GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!!
https://ballotpedia.org/Kevin_McCarthy_(California)
After listening to the slobbering love fest offered up by Rino representatives on the floor of the House I sadly reached a startling conclusion that WeAre The Rinos. I certainly don’t align with that party. I Am MAGA. Thank you Matt Gaetz.
McHenrey is a putz. He slammed that gavel down so hard. He does not want the leash.
“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.”
Yuk to all!
who says the Speaker will be a Repub? Was this whole thing a Ruse to give control of the Speakership to a Dem in order to stop the impeachment of Biden?
From the end of the Politico article-
“I really am crushed because I don’t know how a guy could lose his job for doing the right thing,” longtime McCarthy supporter Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio) said.”
Doing “the right thing” ??? Spitting in the eyes of those who helped you gain the Speakership as well as CONTINUING to spit on the Republican voter base is…the “right thing”??
These GOPe RINOs are so badly divorced from economic reality and walled off from their voters’ lives that they’re no longer able to discern the “right thing” from the self-serving & corrupt wrong thing.
The elephant is sick from parasites and they’ve eaten into its brains. It may be terminal.
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Bury the elephant, enter the Lion.
OMG. This.
This stain on America is upping his attacks against President Trump pushing the acceptable uniparty puppets of Meatball DeSantis, Nimrata Haley, and Pence.
FYI….drop the “X” and replace with “twitter”. 😉
HeX links don’t populate yet.
Switch that to Twitter.com and they will populate when you post.
Great minds Maquis….
I hang with the best cats!
Absolutely DeSantis is controlled. SEA-EYE-YEA.
Do not discount their actual infiltration of elected offices. Quite a few in Congress.
The fundraising emails should be interesting in the next few weeks.
i ENJOYED the POLL That was TEXT to Me DURING THE VOTE – My REPLY = STOP
“The Republicans did nothing.” This is the litany and yet, some of us, still thinking that the Republicans should “stick together”.
😏
When a Democrat sees that his Party is not doing what’s right, they switch parties. RINOs can learn a lesson…
Nancy Pelosi convinced McCarthy to accept the terms for the “motion to vacate” to become speaker. She told him not to worry, she had his back (implying she wouldn’t let the Democrats vote him out). She didn’t even show up for the vote! She shivved him, haha! The Queen of the UniParty shivved the Prince of the UniParty.
McCarthy broke every promise he made during his fight for the speakership because he believe Pelosi would back him up on a motion to vacate. And she didn’t even show up for the vote!
Most people won’t get it, but to those that hate the corrupt political establishment, this is one of the most delightful moments in political history.
God bless Matt Gaetz!
You love to see it.
Kev’s Pelosi’s discarded broken toy.
Perfect synopsis.
really great post
Pelosi’s mother, who ran her husband’s Baltimore Mayor’s office, was called, “THE HAMMER!”, and she taught Nasty Nan very well. Live and learn, Kevin.
I called all 8 of these house members and left a voice mail congratulating them for their courage…Tomorrow I will be calling my state members and I will not be so nice. I’m in MTG district and she will get an ear full…
She’ll be dropping him like a hot potato now that he can’t help her career.
Much to late. Have seen her strings..
A Wet Willie?
Is Karl Rove now going to move in with Frank now that Kev has left the building
I just love that nobody is sure of where this is going. It shows that they didn’t have a plan for this and everyone is caught off guard.
I figure Scalise will be the next speaker and he will be about as bad as Mccarthy, but he can be booted after the next election if he doesn’t shape up in 25.
For once we had the Rs taking the initiative on upping the political brinksmanship, and it’s about 15 years too late on that.
The dems were happy to see him go down because they think this will help them win the house (and as Sundance always says, dems want power, repubs want money), but it won’t. The people have far too short a memory, and they will forget Mccarthy was even speaker by this time next year.
Scalise has cancer.
Expected to respond well to treatment.
Multiple Myeloma, which is according to the medical community “treatable, but not curable” My brother was diagnosed with this previously to Scalise.
Fortunately, I know the doctors might not be able to cure this, but Jesus can!!
In ’24, Trump’s coat tails will bring in new Maga members who will win the House again, like before. Suck lemons and dream on, Marxist Dems, Reg Order will return.
Thanks, Gaetz.
Well, quote:” History is the engine of the future”. Crispy clear, and this is in the uni-party minds for sure. Watching the faces behind Gaetz, when he spoke, the words made some nervous.
A call for internal repeal of the 17th Amendment would be a cash killer for the Senators, another signal.
Gatez looks like he took advantage of the situation – by getting Democrats, a few real votes, and the rest opportunistic people that hate McCarthy
all dems and 8 repubs from that^
(people pissed know Gaetz pulled this off cleverly; knowing that layout above or betting on it)
(people happy, don’t care and are happy to see some pain being delivered)
this was opportunistic using the field.
You seem disappointed.
Or are you trying to drive opinion by going over the top?
Good for him. The end result is what matters.
Gaetz, no matter what one thinks of him, actually said clearly and repeatedly what he was going to do here, how, and why, including the possible results and what either result would demonstrate. This is well publicized, not hidden, not speculation, all straight from Gaetz in his own words.
So wtf is there to be confused about, Gaetz said he was going to either get the dirty Kevy Mick ousted, or demonstrate clearly that the scum was/is a UniParty puppet when/if the “dems” save him. Now all those corrupt degenerates who voted for dirty kevy mick are irrevocably exposed…
The current occupant in the White House took policy from America First back to Washington D.C. first .
Just the open border policy alone is a blatant , willful abdication of Executive Branch responsibility under the U.S. Constitution . Congress has the power of the purse to stop the flow yet they don’t . The informed public sees this .
We all know this along with the rest of D.C. policy initiatives is a big money grab of tax dollars. I do not know where the ouster of the speaker leads but some sand has been thrown into the gears of the Washington political machine.
Why did McCarthy and McConnell support a $7,000 tax credit for electric cars when everybody knows that Climate Change is a hoax and Democrat Party marketing strategy. It’s the same thing with the 30% solar panel tax credit which includes the battery backup and can easily hit $15,000.
Democrats always get everything they want because the Republicans give it to them.
Why did every Senate Republican vote to confirm Tanya Chutkan, a Communist Jamaican immigrant for a federal judgeship? What were they trying to prove that was worth putting a Bolshevik in a position to destroy the lives of Americans?
Kickbacks from EV producers?
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111172347464490182
Given that people are calling him to be speaker, he hasn’t commented on the situation beyond that.
He has. I saw where he called McCarthy a failed speaker and complemented Gaetz.
What drugs is McCarthy taking? He has that bat-crap crazy look in eyes more so than usual. And jeez, his haircut, he looks like Woodstock, all he needs is the dog house, and he got it today.
I do believe Gaetz when he spoke of BRICS and he didn’t want his name tainted, he would go down w/a fight. None of them talk about BRICS, no shock, neither does the media, of course. Matt is the only one I have heard mention it until I think it was Burchett that spoke of it and he gave pretty much the same speech as Matt. BRICS is coming.
I would like to see someone so off the cuff from the outside get the position, like Leo Hohmann, Stephen Miller, Rick Grenell, heck, even Tucker. Tucker would really drive them nuts. LOL! They know just enough about the system but yet are not elected critters, and they are real men w/spines that can hold their own. Here nor there I am praying someone good will step up, enough w/Congress.
Kudos to the eleven and shame to the rest of the GOPe’s. Truly, they are a disappointing bucket of Americans that need to be mucked out of the stall.
Does he have a family? Wife and kids?
Yes.
Huh, I thought that Mike Huckabee was Sarah’s dad.
I’ve never heard them mentioned by anyone. They must have stayed in Cal.
We are living in chaos. Yet Congress is the most disastrous in fixing the chaos it has been in my 83 years. McCarthy agreed to terms of the few House members who clearly understand we are in chaos. But while he started off like a dynamo, he actually did little to push the agenda so needed to back the process to get us out of chaos. Matt Gaetz speaks for the majority of this country who are knowledgeable enough to understand the worse word coming from a Republican’s mouth is …compromise. God Bless Matt Gaetz.
Thank you, Sundance!
Wait! Did this idiot just compare himself to Lou Gehrig? Grrrrr!!!!
It’s not as if Gehrig had a copyright on saying he felt lucky. I consider myself lucky. I’m not comparing myself to him either.
You’re joking, right?
Gehrig: “… you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.” “So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.”
McCarthy: “I might have been given a bad break, but I’m still the luckiest man alive.”
So you think that was just a random thought McCarthy had at the time. He wasn’t trying to paraphrase Gehrig? If so, then you’ve got a point. BUT if it WASN’T just accidental coincidence, then I stand by what I said. Gehrig wasn’t just losing his job… he wasn’t just forced to retire… he was DYING.
Actually, KM had just finished reviewing all the job offers that he had in his retirement folder.
Recall where Ryan went when he left.
KM can REALLY rake in the $ now, with a lot less headaches, and being in the public eye.
That funny look in his eye, was dollar signs.
It makes McCarthy look like a putz (again).
Besides, Lou Gehrig actually accomplished something. His parents were immigrants who came to this country. Did not learn English until the age of 5. Batted .340, 493 Homeruns, 1995 RBI’s and 6 World Series Championships.
McCarthy a big fat zero.
I didn’t know that about him… learning English I mean. But yeah, one of the top 5 players to ever live IMO.
The republicans should be rebranded the communist enablement party much like the passive Liberals currently in opposition to the rabid socialists of Australia.They are failed useless bags of excrement riding the elite cultural Marxist gravy train going deliberately in the opposite direction and betraying the will of their base at every turn,Bravo Matt.
just want to say THANK YOU SUNDANCE for sharing all of your insights and research with all of us treepers much love and respect be well stay safe please
R.D.
At least someone is doing something in the Republican party that involves cleaning things up internally. We’re in this mess because of what professional Republicans were allowed to do(or not do). They’re more dangerous than any Democrat right now.
Sorry, but I just don’t see the end game that is going to advance MAGA.
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Was MAGA being advanced in the previous status quo situation . . .?
Heaven sees better than any of us, our blighted vision is not evidence that no good may come, though it’s so very tempting to feel that way.
We’ve not been commanded to despair yet, we fight on, and we pray.
Hope is never vain, and God always gets a vote.
Pffffft.
McCarthy didn’t have the guts to even kick Pelosi out of her office??!!!
The temporary guy just did it? Omg.
Yeah, the temporary guy did it…. but why did he do it?
McCarthy didn’t. he was fine with Nanzi in the speaker’s office the whole time. So was McHenry up until now.
What happened now to change that?
McHenry is just as mad at Nanzi, as he is at Gaetz currently.
He’s throwing a hissy fit that Nanzi didn’t save McCarthy’s rear end like they expected her too.
She sacrificed McCarthy and now McHenry is throwing a hissy fit. At the end of the day, they are both on the same side still, just mad over tactics.
It was entertaining to listen to “The Great Gnashing of Teeth,” of all the America Last RINOs expressing their anger & disbelief that a handful of patriots had managed to oust their favorite backstabbing Democrat Toadie from the Speakership. You could just hear what they were probably saying in their private lounges: “Imagine the audacity of these uncouth rogues actually listening to their constituents instead of going along with our club, what?” There was surely a great sniffing of snuff & clucking of tongues about the foolishness of doing the bidding of the ignorant masses. It may seem like a victory that these RINOs are being taught a lesson and McFailure is now a memory, but don’t do a victory dance too quickly. There is a vast amount of money at stake for them to lose if they can’t carry on their usual backdoor UniParty schemes, so they are going to be angrier than ever and instead of doing the right thing and returning to Constitutional law, they may decide to work even harder with the Democrats to do away with free elections by increasing the opportunities for fraud.
Despite a year of warnings, they were willing to let things get to this point because they are extremely committed to funding the escalation of the war in Ukraine to a potential nuclear WW3 and to keeping our southern border wide open. They are committed to allowing the invasion of our country by criminal aliens from all over the world, despite the threats to our national security from this and the growing power of the Cartels who are getting extremely wealthy off the UniParty’s border policies which allow almost free reign to their trafficking industries. Let that sink in.
May you live in interesting times.- alleged Chinese curse
The GOP (95% of it–only 8 House Republicans voted against McCarthy) is in some ways out of touch and in other ways simply out of masks with which to continue to connive and deceive their largely Magafied voting base (Faux News watchers excepted). If Trump achieved nothing else, he broke the spell which Globalist NeoConservatism had held over the voting base, and the GOP will never forgive him for it.
Trump has been nominated to be Speaker.
Any professional Republican who opposes Trump or will not vote for Trump to be Speaker sets himself up to be destroyed in the next election.
Once Trump is Speaker of the House, any professional Republican who tries to block his agenda will be put on blast and destroyed in the next election.
When Trump is Speaker of the House, he can propose all sorts of policy objectives and force votes on them, exposing the corrupt GOP apparatus, and anything Trump proposes that passes will be vetoed by Brandon, drawing the lines even clearer.
On top of all that, Trump would be the conductor of the world’s greatest 3-ring Circus, a role he was born to play.
The damage he could do to the corrupt Uni-Party from the position of Speaker of the House is incalculable… 😂
President Trump is busy going to all the trials and defending not only himself, but now his entire family business against these tyrants – so how does dividing his attention by forcing him to sit in Washington D.C. to be Speaker of the House help him in between now and the 2024 election?
How do people not see that? Added distraction? Oh well. Guess we will see what happens next.
We’ve seen so much superhuman effort from this remarkable President that I wonder if some have forgotten that he is still but a man.
He would be fabulous, but it is a full time job, a task for an ally, not our Head of State in Exile.
One of those that voted to oust McCarthy was mocked by that moral midget for praying about the matter, yet not only did he prevail, he showed us one of the most important things we can do to find the right leader for the task.
Bravo to Gaetz for upsetting the Uniparty apple cart. Boo to Gaetz for not following through to take the Speaker position. Victory’s true reward, and curse, is Leadership. Like Colin Powell said, “You break it. You buy it.”
Yeah, Colin Powell, the Republican who always voted for and supported Democrats.
Seems like Gaetz has found his power position within a body of ego-power-hungry politicians. Being the barking dog that just let the other junkyard dogs know who holds the real power. Gaetz now has that gavel without needing to be buried down in the minutia of running the day to day business of being Speaker of the House, all he has to do is have a press commentary here or there saying he wonders if we need to recall (fill in the blank) whoever the next speaker is.
If stories are true, the real function of the Speaker these days is to raise money for their colleagues re-election campaigns and decide how much those same colleagues need to fork over to secure spots on their favorite committees.
We will now get to watch the spectacle of power moves and power players jockeying for position. Their egos won’t let them not play the power games.
“Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look…”
Were he to seek the position he’d have lent credence to the accusations that it was personal.
He may well have his eye on higher office, perhaps saving Florida from the mad midget that has harmed it so.
If he forces the next seeker of the gavel to accept the same conditions that McCarthy violated, with perhaps more teeth still, then he will have done a great work, not that he hasn’t already in pantsing the Ukraine lucre loving clown.
Furthermore, I consider that the Derp State must be destroyed.