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!
LOL. Never before have their vote counting tactics been used against them. Go, go Gaetz.
This was a wild setup, no matter how it evolves.
Gaetz said repeatedly he didn’t make a deal with the Ds. I believe him because that would have defeated and totally weakened his cause.
Predictably, Schumer & Piglosi & et al never let a crisis go to waste and jumped on board.
Did I think it would happen? No. But it’s totally understandable that it did. Just 2 hurricanes merging into one..
Back in the mid to late 1980’s, the Republicans ran on platforms of being “Pro-Life”, and “anti-abortion”.
They gained control of the House, Senate, and the Presidency.
Not ONE piece of legislation was introduced to outlaw, let alone restrict abortion in any way whatsoever.
The Repubs have been enriching themselves and lying to their constituents for a long time now.
They’ve learned quite well from the other side of the aisle.
They didn’t need to be taught anything. The “aisle” is an illusion. George Carlin was correct.
McCarthy got his piece of the pie. He’ll be farting thru silk sheets for the rest of his miserable life.
Yes, neither wing of the Uniparty bird, represents the interests of the constituency it purports to represent.
WE, the American people have not had representative Govt. for a long time.
And, tearing down this distorted, dystopian Uniparty system, by exposing its true nature, forcing people to stop pretending,….that IS “the Big Ugly” that Sundance has been writing about, for so long.
What Gaetz has done, is what started with the Tea Party,..remember?
Don’t attack by aiming at Obama and Dems, aim at removing the RINO’s in leadership, that were enabling Obama and the Dems.
Like primarying Cantor, this is sending shock waves thru the DC swamp system, and upsetting the status quo,..and it is perhaps one more step in the right direction.
I thought talk, months ago of PDJT being Speaker were absurd, but “things” have changed,…and I now can see definite advantages, including him having absolute immunity for anything he says from the floor, so stuff your gag rule, …
As PDJT has said “the gloves are off” and perhaps its something he should seriously consider.
And I quote … “Democracy is messy”. The GOPe simply loathe Democracy … as do the Dem’s.
Oh they represent the interests of the constituency just not the American constituency. They fully represent the Globalist constituency and the past 3 years have been an In-Your-Face representation of this. Obama isn’t worried about tarnishing HIS reputation since he is pulling the strings on Biden’s reputation, or what little was left of it after his vice-presidency. The fact that Kackula Harris agreed to serve as VP under a man she carefully storied as a racist during the 2020 primaries tells you that she was given guarantees that she would ascend the throne to become the first woman of color to occupy the Oval Office. Notice I didn’t say president. Even Biden doesn’t hold that honor since his administration is Obama term 3. I also wonder if Holder is the one pulling Garland’s strings? That would make sense as well. Who is in Kalorama besides ValJar and where do the tunnels lead?
MAYBE ? I think this would be a perfect Avenue for Trump to follow, it was revealed months ago as a suggestion, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was part of a behind the scenes setup. Has Gaetz being following a plan for the last year? Brilliant….too many phony Republicans who are afraid of what Trump knows to make this a reality and the fact that he could expose/close the way they make their fortunes and live their lifestyles.
I will Pray for our Country.
They think they lose, because of pro life issues. It isn’t about abortions, it is about the broken promises. Always handing power over to the democrats after we vote them into power. Gaetz was the messenger of our fury. Now they UniParty will kick back with lawfare and fraud.
“It’s too controversial they said.”
Okay.
So what about Ukraine? Is that controversial too? Since when did our fate become attached to such a horrendously corrupt nation? Two corporations keep spinning along. Think of them as such, not as “parties”. Whatever that means.
“It’s frustrating to watch, it really is like you go into this massive grift where everybody is in on it. You’re just watching, learning, trying to figure out the system and it’s pretty disgusting and it’s very swampy to be up there… I’m not popular up in that town, I know a lot of people don’t like me.”
–Rep. Eli Crane
https://rumble.com/v2yputu-rep.-eli-cranes-message-to-the-american-people-wake-up.html
Yet again, Gaetz is exposing the complete capture of our governing bodies, including the media and corporate arms. We the People are awakening to the reality that we have no representation, but only rulers.
Rulers rearranging chairs on the deck of titanic again. Getz just sent up a flare. Were sinking.
“We demand representation, not rulers”
Kudos to Jojo. If you meet most of the present set of rulers face to face you will come to the same conclusion.
Those I have met face to face who had humility and were genuine: Ron Paul, Thomas Massie, Anthony Wiener
Those I have met face to face who are inauthentic or autocratic: Eric Adams, Carolyn Maloney, Martin O’Malley, Harry Browne
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You might have gasped when I wrote that Anthony Wiener had humility and was genuine. Truth.
Wiener resigned from Congress promptly, as a D – rare. At a trade show event Wiener was making a 20 minute speech to an audience who knew far more on his topic than he did. During his own talk, he openly stated that he was looking for feedback, and in Q&A he immediately yielded in an authentic way to others who knew more. It wasn’t an event where he was collecting checks from donors.
I have never seen such humility and deference from an elected representative, in-person, that I recall. Of course Wiener needed Psychiatric help but he’s also a Dad.
I mention this because Citizens MUST receive authentic humility and deference by “The Elected” to the Citizens.
No more of this rulers nonsense.
No “make work jobs” in Berkshire Hathaway, per Charlie Munger, earlier this year.
“Make Work Jobs” is one of the most succinct balloon pins of all time. “Isn’t that just another make work job?” or “That sounds like a make work job” – how about that for a winter holidays word bomb?
BTW, all posthumous glory goes to patriots who come up with the best nouns, verbs, and memes. Artists should fully engage in all media and it’s about time for patriots to develop art that attracts others outside our immediate circle. Whatever it takes, let’s get it done with outreach, kindness, and a steady hand.
“Don’t Tread on Me” has brought glory to the USA and Christopher Gadsen since 1775.
“We the People”
Adjectives are not invited.
Whoever becomes Speaker had better think about those 3 actions very carefully and implement them immediately.
Absolutely concur with your analysis. We the people are screwed by both parties– the two-headed beast.
Blah blah blah…
It’s neverending.
“We have to go through another year and a half, they’ve weaponized our justice system at a level nobody has ever seen before.
“The RINOs can be very dangerous by the way. In a way, more dangerous then the democrats, because you don’t know where they’re coming from. We got some real bad ones.”
–Donald J. Trump
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111155541763197853
the removal of mccarthy IS the message to the next speaker who conducts “business as usual”.
perhaps he or she will think twice?
personally don’t agree with chasing impeachment of garland, wray, et al, even tho deserved.
not a productive use of time as votes are not there.
would rather see their resignations facilitated with VERY public, VERY specific, evidence of their wrongdoing (political persecutions)
which could implicate the whole cabal.
that could lead to a cascade of “retirements”.
just get the evidence out there.
impeachments provide yet another excuse to ignore border situation, inflation, crime, etc.
Amazing how out of touch these scumbags are
One of the most successful ploys of the Communist revolution in America has been to redefine “Conservative” while capturing the “opposition” and maintaining the illusion of choice.
Who needs ballot harvesting when this setup has been perfected over the decades since Goldwater and Reagan?
👍
Entryism
“I have been a neo-Marxist, a neo-Trotskyist, a neo-socialist, a neoliberal, and finally a neoconservative.”
–Irving Kristol, Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea
such a good point.
son bill (and many others) also twisted “conservatism” into something that fit their own very strange ideas,
and proceeded to sell that as the authentic version.
like a lot of patent medicine, it was fake AND bad for you.
The socialist policies lead to a collapse of society. They have to have ballot harvesting to keep the scam alive. We are beginning to reap the whirlwind. Ill educated children, promotion for diversity rather than competence, policies that increase costs without benefits, and runaway spending lead to the end of an empire.
You have the wrong name! Change your name!
You’re a disservice to the American people!
BECAUSE NOTHING WAS DONE TO SECURE THE BORDER or REIN IN SPENDING, is the reason your GREAT SPEAKER,
IS NO LONGER YOUR SPEAKER!!
At least he booted Pelosi out of her office. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4237209-mchenry-orders-pelosi-to-leave-capitol-office-in-first-acts-as-speaker/
that was probably grandstanding
so we would think they intend to be strong
From others’ comments, it appears he kicked her out because he (and others) were mad she didnt vote to save kevvie. She reneged on her promise to save the reneger.
He’s being ratioed to pieces. Out of touch is putting it nicely.
Mr. McHenry, as best as Americans can see, the only border Congress and the White House is trying to secure is the Ukrainian border with Russia and you’re doing anything but reining in spending to meet that end. You, sir, with your cute little bow tie can also be primaried. and I hope you will be after these comments.
Consistent conservative leadership? I can agree with two of the 3 words. Unfortunately for the country, the lie is sandwiched between the two words bound in support of the Globalist Marxist Democrat Party. What, I might ask, is conservative about ANY part of the Republican budget process? You, sir, need to study Sundance’s article carefully since you have obviously lived in the slime of the Swamp for the past decade!
I can never trust anyone who always wears a bow tie. They make a statement only at a formal event.
more work to do?
I don’t recall their doing much
This is a great summation of the useless rot called GOP.
🔥🔥🔥Burn it all down and let something that actually severs its voters rise from the ashes.🔥🔥🔥. 💥🇺🇸GODZILLA TRUMP 2024🇺🇸💥
Please tell me “severs” is a typo, that you mean serves.
We all need to remember to point to this article when Paul Ryan, Ronna McDaniel or other decepticon complains that DJT, abortion or Matt Gaetz cost the R’s seats on CONgress.
Simple question for all to ponder.
What Republican party?
Hey Newt ,go pound sand you sellout .
You are no conservative.
He wasted the greatest opportunity to capture the Congress and govern correctly in decades, but because of his oversized ego. He thought his mandate was bigger than it was.
Apparently, SOME of the commenters here just don’t get it. You’d think they were trolls or something…../\/\/\/\
What Republican Party, indeed! Let’s get one: VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT!!
“I might have been given a bad break, but I’m still the luckiest man alive,” McCarthy said.
“I might have been given a bad break. Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” Lou Gehrig said.
Now, McCarthy thinks he’s Lou Gehrig. But he did not hit it out of the park. He struck out.
I thought that was a weird out dated thing to say, BAD BREAK. So, he stole it from an American icon? If I doubted McCARTHY wasn’t a TOTAL POS, this locks it in.
Yet there are still way too many (R) voters who side with Newt and others, angry at McCarthy’s calumny and quick adhesion degradation. They believe they’re loyal to the Reagan revolution. They’ve little idea that they’ve been thoroughly pre-programmed by FauxNews. They think they’re in charge while feeling free to criticize “special interests”, the bugaboo of professional DC officeholders.
To suggest to them that this is so results in outrage. Forty years of grift and lying bear the fruits of division, deception and a massively degraded civil process.
Yep, I have them in my family. Had to explain to them yesterday that their allegiance to McCarthy was misplaced. They all watch the propaganda on Fox News. I asked them why they thought it was more appropriate to send billions and billions of dollars to Ukraine while congress sits by and allows millions of illegals to enter our open, unsecure borders. They couldn’t answer me.
Never Trump Makes Cult of Personality Around Reagan (5min)
https://rumble.com/vhpo4z-never-trump-makes-cult-of-personality-around-reagan.html
The most productive thing we Treepers can do is to donate to Matt Geatz right now.
It will send a message to all the week kneed house members to grow a spine like Geatz or step aside.
I assure you it will be the best money you will have spent in a long time.
Excellent idea!
Amen, brother Jim!
Donation was sent during the voting process. Matt Gaetz put himself on the line today and like PDJT was willing to take the heat regardless of outcome. Courage is rare in DC. On a sidenote, I was extremely disappointed in Mark Levin‘s take on Matt Gaetz – his new book has the wrong title – it should be All those in Government Hate YOU –
It has always been difficult for me to listen to Levin. Today he just lost his mind.
Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way! The problem was the “follow” was the wrong person/entity! The picture is slowly getting clearer!
This^^^^^^
So, now that McC is out, when do Republicans defund the DOJ and stop the malicious prosecutions of Trump?
And get rid of 87,000 IRS agents, secure the borders, impeach Garland, Wray, Myorkis, … much work to be done still!!
Keep our eyes on the prize!
Larry, MO, and Curly
Sellout posuers.
Wouldn’t one have to be on the side of the angels to begin with in order to sellout?
I know they’ve sold us down the river, but they were poseurs from the get go.
Most are, though some sell their false virtue with such panache it does grate.
They have ties on to keep the slime from oozing out of the shirt collars.! What a despicable bunch!
They had so much promise and decided it was all about the Benjamins! The “Young Guns” turned them on their constituents. And we turned them right back!
The Three Nitwits.
The last of those stupid @$$ “Young Guns”.
Hope who comes next isn’t the same or worse.
Gaetz and his Freedom Caucus allies were livid on Sunday after it emerged that McCarthy had made a secret side-deal with Democrats for more Ukraine funding, in exchange for passage of a continuing resolution that will keep the government running through mid-November.
Let’s make cutting off the World War Three project a top line obligation of the new Speaker.
Sliver Ukraini!!
And then McCarthy denied the “story” repeatedly … despite Biden himself gloating about it. Never trust a Queer.
There is nothing Newt under the sun. “Nothing Newt” tee shirts go on sale tomorrow.
Not bad.
Wasn’t the old anti-Tea Party appellation the “Contract On America”?
And here Newt Grinch-Itch exposes the actual “Contract” through his raging against MAGA.
And the Republican party burns to ashes… so well deserved.
The Republican party has completely lost their base.
I suspect the Democrats have too – they’ve swung so far left.
I remember every moment you describe Sundance.
I still had hope then that we could turn the sinking ship around.
We got our chance in Trump and they are still trying to destroy him and his family.
And we’re next.
I am praying for a miracle.
Here in CA … where only the Hollywood and Silicon Valley $$$ elite can afford to live … PG&E is promising to Jack up our punishing energy rates YET AGAIN in 2023 … and the CAPUC will sit by and allow it. The gasoline prices are well over $6.00/gal. approaching $7.00/gal. Food is unaffordable at my local Safeway here in my gold-plated lillywhite suburb.
Do I remember EVERY broken promise of a weak and feckless GOPe? Yep. I feel it in my bones … when I cannot afford to set the thermostat above 61deg. F. in the dead of winter
your comment really resonated.
same situation here.
we must try to endure until the pendulum swings.
like you, don’t know if/when that’s gonna happen,
and don’t know if have the resources to do it,
but we must try!
for now, we can do “who has it worse?” jokes –
CA or greater chicagoland!😂
Matt Greatz. Paraphrasing Windton Churchill, “never, never, never give in, in nothing large or petty, except to convictions of honor or good sense.” Matt understands that.
The Uniparty will never understand or accept the will of The People. We are in WWIII and it the UP is an integral part of the overthrow of our once great nation. Only The People can take it back, and many of them are simply clueless.
The organized GOPe is simply the right wing of the fetid US government vulture. The Dems are the left.
This recap really does put what’s been going on in easy to understand timeline.
My question is, can we use that old phrase 15 days to slow the spread and transform it into 15 days to find a new Speaker, and draw that timeline out for another 12 months, until after election 2024? Wouldn’t that move stop any more continuing resolutions or sending money to Ukraine?
I kinda like that idea.
It’s not Right vs Left anymore.
It’s Uniparty/Deep State vs We The People.
MAGA is people from the Right who’ve understood this in their gut.
As soon as enough from the Left grok and join us, it’s LETS ROLL!!! time….
This is indeed already happening to the old-liberal left.
I was shocked to the extent of it in this video I stumbed across, from Tues, Oct 2nd:
https://rumble.com/v3mlfox-matt-gaetz-calls-mccarthy-a-liar-and-pledges-to-oust-house-speaker.html
A step in the right direction!
100%
“The Uniparty stole the Arizona Election – D’s & R’s.
“The political elite despise We The People and can’t stand the fact that they work FOR us.”
https://truthsocial.com/@KariLake/posts/109622874099555627
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Thank you Sundance for this outstanding commentary and summary. Needs to be read far and wide.
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Amen… It is about damn time we saw this. One can hope Trump gets involved with primary challenges in these super red districts with RINOs.
Thanks for the summary SD.
TRUMP for Speaker!
The Speaker Does NOT have to be a Congress critter! It can be anyone.
The only candidate for Speaker I am currently supporting is President Donald J. Trump.
https://truthsocial.com/@RepMTG/posts/111174441194954402
IMO, THIS is how the congress is SUPPOSED TO WORK!!!! It is a legislative body of elected members who are SUPPOSED TO work FOR the people — it has NOT done so for oh, I think about the past hundred years. As scary as it is, I am thrilled to see this happen!!!
Republicans are SHIT!
You said it much better, I just paraphrased it! 🙂
This is such a great resource, you are 🙂
We are so blessed here.
they ran and hid to privacy for a week?
angry?
so they can go on cable all week; ode to kev?
let them run nikki and make it a four way race.
10 on a tank
Um, Russian flag, don’t recognize a single face, struggling to see the relevance here . . .
boris yeltsin
I agree with vacating the chair, however isn’t Gaetz part of the Club for Growth? If not I will stand corrected. If so, didn’t Trump call them out numerous times? I sense this might be a play to suck us back in to blindly support folks again as the light has been shining on their nefariousness. In my view, this was intentional. Major headline, but impotent follow up!!
So many questions, so few internet connections!
Wait . . .
Rather than toss out terrible sounding stuff and making suppositions, one could like, I dunno, look into it first?
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/24/club-for-growth-fund-boebert-gaetz-00107755
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/07/10/club-for-china-growth-drops-3-6m-in-anti-trump-ads-in-iowa-nh/
Yes, Gaetz is not full MAGA. We should beware the Uniparty smoke and countermeasures. McCarthy’s removal may be an op, with Gaetz wielding the dagger. Now he gets blamed, which serves the Uniparty. Remember, all of these people are our enemies.
Club For Growth Runs Attack Ad Against Never Trumper
https://nalert.blogspot.com/2021/09/club-for-growth-runs-attack-ad-against.html
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/29/club-for-growth-cries-uncle-mcintosh-tells-donors-no-attack-effort-against-trump-is-working/
And, the Republicans will continue do nothing. The people are calling for a “Whig Solution.” Get rid of them!
I wonder what Klaus Schwab and his European banker bosses are thinking about and planning now? None of it can be good for the U.S. of A. From the day the Declaration of Independence was made public (1776) those wicked European feudal creeps have loathed and despised everything and everyone associated with the Great American Experiment. May the Great Good LORD of heaven and earth bring confusion and consternation upon every one of their hateful houses.
trans-crisis = climate-crisis = race-crisis =
multi-crisispoly-crisiseverything-crisis!Pretenders of the world, unite!
Polycrisis
https://rumble.com/v26ywbu-polycrisis.html
“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.”
Immediately after which Mitch McConnell and the Weeping Boner both made it their life’s work – very publicly, BTW – to crush the Tea Party that had just given them so much power. The hostility that the GOP showed to the Tea Party was unreal, only to be outdone by their later hostility to Trump, who effectively took over the Tea Party banner and tried his hardest to make good on the promises and goals.
So McCARTHY is endemic of this whole bunch of Uniparty Republicans. The Poster Child the MSM can no longer ignore. He made promises to get the job and not only lied to his own party, but made opaque deals behind the back of the public he was put in place to serve.
I keep saying it, I wonder which party is going down first. This exercise didn’t expose the Dems who didn’t vote yes, nice set up by the way Matt, it exposed the Republicans who voted No.
One thing that becomes glaringly obvious as I read what Sundance has written here: voting did NOT solve any of the issues that voters wanted corrected. So, the issue (once again) becomes…is it possible to vote your way out of what we see now? And if you think ‘yes’, why do you think the result will be different?
This is why character matters. In 1992, Clinton’s lies during the primary were why the Right harped on the issue that character matters. The reasoning was, if he could rattle off an obvious lie about not inhaling, which the Left reacted with a nudge-nudge wink-wink, then he’ll lie about anything. His Gennifer Flowers lie was greeted the same way.
This prompted Joe Klein to write an odious column called Bimbo Primary in New York magazine 2/10/1992, in which he said: “Twerps and moralists will insist that anyone who could lie in such a way shouldn´t be president; actually, the reverse is true–anyone who can´t shouldn´t be president. The world is a subtle, dangerous place; leadership requires something more complex than Sunday-school morality.”
Joe Klein is no stranger to lying. He wrote the roman à clef Primary Colors about Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign in 1992. He used the pseudonym “Anonymous” and then lied that he wrote the book. The only thing that upset journalists was that he even lied to them.
It’s not enough to say all politicians lie. McCarthy lied and Gaetz called him on it. Good for Gaetz!
Yes, certainly character matters. But there are nuances to this, as well. For example, Elise Sefanik from NY….She is one of the potential replacements for McCarthy. Remember when she was the new hero during her questioning in one of the Congressional hearings, bringing up questions and info that no one else dared to do? I surely remember loads of comments about how this was the new shining star of the Republican/MAGA movement. Yet, she did NOT vote to oust McCarthy. Was she ‘lying’ previously? Now? Is this an indication of her ‘character’?? I think that the issue is far more complex that just ‘lying’.
Lying is just one element of character. The issue concerning McCarthy was not complex to me. He deserved to be ousted.
my understanding of “character” is that it is not bendable.
i think you are more accurately describing political calculation,
and that certainly deserves loads of discussion!🥴
once again, it is your duty as a US citizen to vote
HOLD THE LINE!
regardless of the noise in your head
My question is not whether or not we should vote. My question is how voting is going to change anything, considering that, even according to Sundance’s article, very favorable voting accomplished…..nothing
Make Obvious Great Again?
Propaganda is a purposeful, directed effort to overcome censorship – the censorship of the group mind and the herd reaction.
Glare Back Better
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110322307286324332
MALS. (Originally written for Australia….). Make America Less Shit.
Now that is a brilliant idea!!
Nice summary. Don’t forget endless wars though
God! Nuf said. Now, get to work praying without ceasing……
I knew Mickey was comin!! The Big Ugly has begun. Popcorn ready?
It took 15 rounds of voting before he was finally given the speakership. The majority obviously did not want him in that role. At that, he had goals that were required and after 8 months had not delivered. Now lets get some things done.
THIS IS THE BEGINNING
TIME TO GET RID OF THE RINO’S………THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING ..
You needn’t go any further than 2013, when it was revealed that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups and the RNC did nothing! Mitch McConnell hated the Tea Party because they expected him to do more than sit on his backside and rake foreign money from his businesses. He worked hand in hand with the Obama administration to actively destroy the Tea Party.
Judicial Watch obtains IRS documents showing McCain staff urging IRS to target Tea Party Groups
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2018/06/21/stunning-confirmation-judicial-watch-obtains-irs-documents-showing-mccain-staff-urging-irs-to-target-tea-party-groups/
The Republican party must be destroyed they are not on our side they are weak and controlled by The communist democrats.
Eric Cantor was the first to go – he was the House Minority Leader and lost his primary to Dave Brat in Virginia – the first time a Minority Leader was ever defeated. Paul Ryan – retired at a young age from Congress as the sitting Speaker of the House in 2018 and now Kevin McCarthy – first Speaker of the House to ever be fired from his job by members of his own party.
All of these grifters came into the House the same year (2010), all were to be the “new generation of conservative leaders”, and all met the same fate. Question: how many others in the so-called Conservative leadership will meet the same fate in 2024.
I think normal Americans are sick of being lied to and bankrupted by the corrupt pseudo-conservative group of “conservative” Members of Congress. My guess is they won’t change because they don’t see the need to change and they need to be beat in a primary like Eric Cantor or forced to retire in 2024 like Paul Ryan and now Kevin McCarthy.
Kevin McCarthy as of last night said he will not stand again for Speaker and will retire from Congress (like Ryan) at or before the end of his term so he can enrich his wealth through working for a K Street lobby group or some globalist company, just like the many that preceded him.
Exhibit one: Eric Cantor resigned from Congress and became the Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank
Exhibit two: Paul Ryan resigned from Congress and became a Fox Corporation Board member, is a senior advisor for the Teneo Company, a PR company with close ties to the Clinton family, and launched a non-profit (which is a favored method of grift) called the American Idea Foundation.
What will McCarthy do? My guess he has a position already secured with Sequoia Capital, an investment firm with close ties to the CCP.
Non-profits are such an obvious grift it’s disgusting.
spend time with his family means start setting up his new lobbying gig.
Matt Gaetz got the stinkeye and boos from his fellow reps when he lambasted lobbyists in his speech yesterday. Lobbyists are the pimps and the politicians are the prostitutes .
What an infuriating walk down memory lane to start the day.
“The Republicans did nothing”
Well you know what? Matt Gaetz did something!!
bottom line is the usg has been poking around and fkcing our lives up for a long time. time to return the favor. when they squeal, make sure they know it will only stop when they stop and the economic rape machine they have set up needs to be retired forever. they exist for the economic rape machine, so maga is a total repudiation of their existence.
The chastising doomsday screeching of Newt Gingrich last night on some Fox show was, literally, as if he’d been asleep during the years Sundance writes about above.
The death knoll for the Republican party has rung……its all over.
Primary and vote out ALL incumbents.
Time for that 3rd party.
It took eight brave Republicans and 198 Marxist Democrats to deliver for the Conservative Base. Let that sink in!
They’re called Useful Idiots, and Useful Idiots can be useful to anyone who’s smart enough to use them.
Great article Sundance and agree with it 100%. I’m living in hope it’s all been part of the plan and Trump will end up as Speaker, then he will impeach Biden and Harris and be able to move into the White House, as President. 🤞🤞in the interim, before the next Election.
Sundance says that the GOPe did nothing. He forgot to mention Ryan and McConnell actively blocking wall construction and McConnel/McCarthy taking dem dark money from FTX to attack MAGA candidates.
Gaetz played the part of David to the RINO party’s Goliath perfectly! Remember, a kick in the ass is a step forward!
Thank you Sundance for a Recent History of what has happened. The duplicity of the GOPe is saddening and maddening.
It’s good for the country to have rejected first Cantor, then Ryan and now McCarthy. These 3 were a team starting years ago. We reject them.
It’s only a small victory. The Uniparty is still in control. They’ll own the next Speaker.