Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed [SEE HERE] that he is leaving congress at the end of this year and will not seek reelection.
This announcement follows significant sunlight upon the GOPe wing of the DC Uniparty, as the big ugly battle between the voting base and the detached professional Republican apparatus rages on. Based on policy advocacy and votes registered, there are approximately 100 establishment GOP House Republicans, who represent DC interests, and approximately 100 Republicans in the House who honor the representative wishes of their constituents. It is a pretty even split.
Despite that 50/50 reality, the pragmatic conservative base, the America-First MAGA movement, is in far better shape than ever before. Having slightly more than half of the Republican House representing the people is significantly more than in the past 20 years. Thanks to the sunlight provided by Donald Trump, we have made progress. Here’s McCarthy’s announcement.
(Via Wall Street Journal) – I’m an optimist. How could I not be? I’m the son of a firefighter. For 17 years I’ve served in the same congressional seat—the same office in which I was once denied an internship. Only in America.
I helped lead Republicans to a House majority—twice. We got more Republican women, veterans and minorities elected to Congress at one time than ever before. I remained cheerfully persistent when elected speaker because I knew what we could accomplish.
Even with slim margins in the House, we passed legislation to secure the border, achieve energy independence, reduce crime, hold government accountable and establish a Parents’ Bill of Rights. We did exactly what we said we would do.
We kept our eyes on America’s long-term global challenges by restoring the Intelligence Committee to its original charter and establishing a bipartisan Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
We reduced the deficit by more than $2 trillion, revamped work requirements for adults on the sidelines, cut red tape for critical domestic energy projects, and protected the full faith and credit of the U.S. We kept our government operating and our troops paid while wars broke out around the world.
No matter the odds, or personal cost, we did the right thing. That may seem out of fashion in Washington these days, but delivering results for the American people is still celebrated across the country.
It is in this spirit that I have decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways. I know my work is only getting started.
I will continue to recruit our country’s best and brightest to run for elected office. The Republican Party is expanding every day, and I am committed to lending my experience to support the next generation of leaders. (read more)
McCarthy’s departure represents a significant change in the GOPe apparatus. There is a lot of work that needs to be done to shift the Republican Party back to a party that is focused on America, but it is much improved this year.
On Tuesday, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and a former member of House GOP leadership, said he wouldn’t run for re-election, though he will serve out the remainder of his term.
[McCarthy’s] retirement will also kick off a race for his Bakersfield-based district seat, which is solidly red. And there are plenty of ambitious GOP politicians eager for a rare shot at a safe seat. If McCarthy resigns after Friday at 5 p.m., as expected, then Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom can choose whether to call a special election or keep the seat vacant until the next election. He chose the latter in 2020, when former Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) resigned after pleading guilty to misusing campaign funds.
If McCarthy formally steps down before Friday at 5 p.m., then Newsom would have to call the special election due to filing deadline rules. (more)
I guess he’s choosing to have his spot sit empty, narrowing the R majority, 🤷♂️
Of course. He’s twisting the knife on Mike Johnson & the Freedom Caucus.
Freedom caucus – yes.
Johnson – same ole, same ole.
Johnson just agreed to put an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/06/mike-johnson-backtracks-caves-to-deep-state-democrats-on-slipping-fbi-spy-power-reauthorization-into-defense-bill/
Johnson strikes again, for about the fourth or fifth time, already this week!
334 days until we Re-Elect POTUS Trump.
Are you a Precinct Chair yet? Are you helping TPUSA? How are you helping Team Trump?
Are you?
No.
And how are you helping?
The same NDAA that embodied such gross violations of the 4th and 5th Amendments that Congress had to take TWO SEPARATE VOTES ON IT??
yes, Johnson is just another 2 faced liar like most of the others
Johnson has turned out to be just another 2-faced liar with a southern drawl, a boyish grin, and a Bible in his hand – fooled us, didn’t he?
I call battered conservative syndrome. Getting a little tired of this BS.
And that would be why he so easily garnered the 222 votes for his Speaker position. All the rinos knew who he truly was and the rest were fooled by his act.
You’re right, he was voted in rather easily when you think about it.
Yep … Made me wonder as well.
Didn’t fool me.
I called him out right off the rip and was told I was wrong and to give him a chance.
Didn’t fool me. I keep saying everyone, EVERYONE, in Congress is dirty. You don’t get to Congress without being dirty.
NO ONE inside DC is on our side.
It was a deep concern when Mike was approved so quickly with minimal opposition. However, this is a good time to write your Rep, and advise them that there are primaries coming up in the Spring. Ask he/she/it how they like their job.
“…a southern drawl, a boyish grin, and a Bible in his hand…”
When I read your characterization of Johnson I immediately thought of Slick Willie. Clinton was the consummate New South politician, and “symbolism over substance” the watchword in the Clinton years.
The ruse worked: The boy from Hope trope did wonders. And because it did, they repeat it with some variations. These incarnations include:
BHO…with some adjustments;Mayor Pete;MAGA Mike.
If he truly is like this, he’s setting himself up for a looooong and ugly eternity.
That’s right! I never really thought the scripture about “the remnant” was true, but I surely do see it now.
Has this man no FEAR OF GOD?
A new Mike Pence pretending to be a Christian.
Exactly
And ALL OF US.
It’s his final FU to his constituents and MAGA.
Yep, one more f.u. to us.
At least Kevin is showing his true allegiance, and my thanks to Rep. Gaetz for getting the new Speaker. However, there will need to be pressure placed on Mike and the RINOs to do the “right thing”. The Republican primaries of 202 should be used to replace those RINOs who have failed to support America.
WOW McCarthy’s list of achievements is certainly laudable, too bad he didn’t actually achieve any of it…
He probably wants to try to enjoy his last year as a free man. You can’t blame him. It’s got to weigh heavy on his mind. What would it be like to spend the rest of your life in a dog cage? At least he would be close to the Communists he loves.
Another option is to give up his ‘meagre salary and go for the big bucks sooner rather than later. Afterall, it’s always been about Me First not America First.
I’m sure he has a nice cushy lobbyist position all lined up. Or his offshore accounts indicate he can just retire.
Whenever I hear about a “Congressional retirement”, I always ask what network, agency, or firm will be providing the new “big salary”.
Is he stepping down because his money laundering grift funded on the backs of taxpayers is over since PDJT will win re-election for the 3rd time, or is he hoping he can just slink off into the sunset and not be held accountable for his treasonous backstabbing of hard working Americans?
both
He is stepping down inorder to make it easier for the uni-party to derail the MAGA agenda. Never forget the represent wall street globalists not you. They dont represent you, They don’t care about you, but they just might be beginning to fear you.
I’ll settle for that!
The big question is he doing this because he sees the writing on the wall regarding UniParty aspirations, i.e. it looks like they’re going to get their behinds thrashed or is his goal to help the UniParty and his grift survive the next election. I put my money on the latter.
So what is Kevin going to do next?
CNN Spot
Fox?
I hope that he/she/it gets an offer from cnn+, like that wallace guy. Will he attempt to replace ronna at the RNC?
Spend his war chest recruiting demoncraps in conservative clothing to primary the 8 that ousted his ass & to run against any MAGA republican that happens to run in 24. Like he did to Joe Kent.
Who cares?
Work to kill Maga and America First in the Republican Party and keep it in rino hands.
Paul Ryan 2.0 is my bet.
Lucrative position as a lobbyist.
Probably be on CNN or MSDNC with Lizzy and the other traitors.
Lobbyist for an ammunitions or military equipment maker just after he votes for $6B in $$ to Ukraine.
‘Service’ demoncrats on the street corner?
Explore the deepest, darkest corners of GITMO, with any luck at all.
Who gives a rats ass.
lobbyst
Used to live in his district long ago. Bye you Rino POS.
Don’t let the door hit you in the backside.
Off to Hill & Knowelton to lobby for Ukraine or anybody else that signs a check. It is the way.
Hand in glove next to Paul poster child Ryan!
Good deal, if I remember correctly McCarthy and McConnell both were responsible for the big red wave that never happened in 2022. Both failed to support any MAGA candidates and it cost us a majority in the senate and a huge majority in the house. On a side not it looks like Gaetz was right when he said McCarthy was packing up. BYE BYE KEVIN , DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YA WHERE THE GOOD LORD SPLIT YA.
Gaetz also vouched for Johnson. I don’t blame him. Johnson is weak and spineless.
He’ll answer to God for what he has done.
Preferably sooner rather than later.
I was only referring to what Gaetz said about McCarthy right after the house booted Santos but since you went there, I would much rather have Johnson as speaker than RINO UNIPARTY McCarthy.
Just another uni-party swamp rat! Take your 30 pieces of silver and go get bent!!!! FJBLGB!!!
If McCarthy stayed, he would keep trying to take revenge. Like he has already been doing.
So even though he is trying to take revenge as he leaves, we can be glad to be shut of him.
Though I suppose he could keep trying like Liz Cheney. Maybe we could wish the two would plague each other instead of us.
Regardless of what nu-sum does, the MAGA s in the house need to be recruiting some demos in red districts to walk away from the demos and join MAGA.
The GOPe / RINOs are planning on destroying the current Republican majority……no surprise….they hate us……no big deal…but it just means MAGA should have an on-going effort during every session to get demos to switch over.
“Let’s go Brandon and the demos and the GOPe!”
Your Right !
Bye Felicia….
Gosh, reading this statement you’d imagine something useful happened for America, you’d think as conservatives they’d conserved something, you’d think McCarthy had actually pressed for anything wanted by the R constituency.
I guess speechwriters really CAN make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Leaving at this untoward time says so much about McCarthy. None of it flattering.
Probably getting advice from Paul Ryno. Look what that mother f***** did. Sat on his hands for 6 months before he quit.
Don’t forget that he got 40+ RINOs to resign in 2018, and gave a HUGE Omnibus bill to Democrats for FY 2017, to screw Trump.
God curse Johnson and Ryan.
Witty agrarian meme!
they are trying to give the majority to democrats.
Well…Bye.
Schmuck.
MAGA is slowly but surely ascending.
Trump, et al is playing it right.
No third party, takeover the existing one, just as planned.
The weaker of the two wings of the Uniparty to takeover.
Thanks to Matt Gaetz and Tim Burchett to name a few.
We need to start a pool whether he’ll end up at Boeing, Blackrock, or Fox.
Don’t trip over your lower lip on the way out, Kevin. And don’t forget your ball and the rest of your toys which you threw out of the pram…
Oh and this, you self centred, officious sorry loser…
Thanks for reducing the almost nonexistent R majority by another vote…which I’m sure you intended with the timing of your hissy fit.
How very Mean Girl of you.
Frank’s in tears over Kevin’s imminent departure.
Very well-said, Betsy!
I’m assuming his departure leaves his constituents without representation come January 1…which makes his leaving as dishonourable as his short tenure as Speaker.
(What am I saying!!! He never put his constituents interests before his own grubby desire for power…no different from any of his soon to be former Club Members.)
McBye!
But will there eventually be a far better quality (i.e., MAGA) Republican replacement? For now we cannot count on anything good coming from Cacafornia…
That’s cuz whoever it is will come from maryland, you silly willy person! 🙂
Swine. My guess is that he is up to something. Maybe joining Liz Cheney’s new party?
Don’t let the door hit you in your rotten ass!
Good, long overdue.
Ronna McRomney must be feeling very lonely. Time to resign Ronna.
Always with the I’m the son of a firefighter.
Yep…
Just like that useless cretin from OH who always came out with “my dad was a postal worker.”
Just like 2018 mid-term when all the republican wing of the democrat party bailed on Trump. Even a Trump win next year will be hamstrung or paralyzed without the house. What a feckless bunch of losers.
Next up McConnell and Miss Rona Mittens.
In retrospect maybe this turd of a speaker should quit. I was wrong about this hack. What a sell out.
Now that would be OUTSTANDING !!!
Imagine the weeks of pillow talk between him and Frank…
He’s not gay. He had a torrid affair with freshman Renee Elmers of NC, both married.
He’s also married to a lovely godly woman, who has probably been a political widow these many years, and tried to protect his children from Kev’s corruption.
We can hope that he gets in a bad car accident, becomes paraplegic, and she leaves him all alone.
Sweet revenge!
Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish.
Don’t let the revolving door hit you on the way back as a lobbyist
McCarthy is just a really bad loser crying in his bed.
Since he’s been outed, I see this as a sucker punch; he thinks he can hobble his fellow “Republicans” for a parting shot.
And if he’s going to be out there working to pull in more “Republican” voters, then he is talking about people like himself. He won’t be helping any MAGA people, that is for certain!
Don’t like him, don’t trust him, his allegiance is to Sequoia Capital and other CCP captured companies.
couldn’t happen to a nicer guy except this guy is not a nice guy.
‘Son of a firefighter’ besmirches firefighters almost as badly as ‘son of a postman’ Kasich besmirched postmen.
The preparations are in for when Trump wins 2024. All the resignations, and retirements are just like in 2016, 2018, counting on a democrat led Senate and House to make PDJT’s presidency another uphill battle as it was last time. Also keep in mind the thieves are content to take what they have stolen just is case the status quo gets turned upside down, the felons do not want to face legal battles so they are content to walk away now.
History is repeating itself again.
Hmmm… this might not be a bad thing…
I’d rather have Pres Trump in the white house, and deal with the secondary d’rats possibly having the senate/house.
and if they are resigning on purpose, then they know a Pres Trump is inevitable. So they are scared! Right where we want ‘em!
The Big payoff is awaiting him .
“Book deal” or lobbyist or just Frank Luntz roommate?
They will whittle down the majority till it is gone. Then the Dems take over. The J6 release stops. They will have second in line behind two problems, which will resign for a fresh incumbent Democrat President candidate for 2024
I think the Uniparty intended the Democrats to control the House 2/3rds of the time and the Republicans 1/3. They have to make it look like there are fair elections going on and that there is some kind of balance when of course, there is none. Only now they have decided to pull the plug. I think it was the goal of the UP to do what was done in Texas where 100% of the Dems and the necessary minimum of Republicans would run the government. At any rate, that is not going to happen.
2018 Redux. BEWARE.
He’s cutting and running like his buddy Eric Cantor did in 2014 after he was primaried out by Dave Brat. Hopefully the pace of GOPe resignations and primary losses will quicken considerably.
The first salvo was in 2018 when 33+ republican incumbents ‘retired’ when incumbents win 93% of the time…
ROFLMAO — anyone remember McCarthy, Ryan and Cantor: “Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders”?
When I think of Bakersfield, I think of Merle Haggard, Buck Owens & The Buckaroos, oil wells, cotton, cattle & crops. Tough, hard-working, salt of the earth, blue-collar Americans. I don’t think of Francine Luntz’s boy-toy Kevin, a 3-piece-suit-wearing, back-stabbing phony.
Thank the Good Lord that Kevi is now in America’s rear-view mirror. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Let’s get a real MAGA in his place.
Sing it Merle!
There is no doubt the Uniparty RINOs are going extinct!
His last big Screw You, to American Patriots!
What a petty, weak, selfish man.
Awe… Too bad, so sad… Safe travels
You are the best, Sundance!
Your images are perfect and I truly needed a good laugh.
McCarthy can just go spend quality time with Frank Lutz.
He will not be missed. O the contrary, the MAGA force is rejoicing.
I hope he does not get off this easily after his past actions.
who really cares what this loser thinks … the entire federal gov’t … needs to be gone …
Good riddance to McCarthy! He is nothing more than a tool of the LEFT! I spent most of my life in CA (born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada – parents migrated to CA when I was 6 months old) – back when you had to have a ” Citizen Sponsor” guaranteeing 2 years of rent, food, etc.” That was long ago … Happy to be a resident of Florida the past 18 years! California was a beautiful State until the Left (DemoNICRATS) over-taxed, overspent, shoved socialism down the throats of Citizens, taxpayers. McCarthy, et al have taxed the State into oblivion. Residents flee daily! McCarthy is one more tool!