Interesting, so obviously he didn’t have the votes.
He may or may not have. Doing it this way avoids a vote of record for many Republicans in districts Biden won or in districts that are close.
This move though was to save his own skin from a vote to remove him as speaker. Problem is they still might since there is no good way he can avoid a shut down, at least i dont think there is. The next few weeks are going to be pure chaos and even if the committe votes for impeachment then he has to take it to the whole house and that is going to be interesting.
Any republican with decency would force McCarthy out, vote for Jeffries for speaker, fund the government for at least a year, and then try to return to some level of normalcy.
McCarthy isn’t the “speaker” he’s a puppet for a fanatical minority, and the rest of his caucus hides in shame or fear.
“republican with decency” is an oxymoron.
There’s nothing left in the GOP other than fanatical lunacy at this point. Nothing. At all.
Don’t kid yourself, behind all the mindless lunatics are plenty of deceitful scheming planners doing their best to focus all the fanatics on the “right” targets.
He’s not capable of doing the job because he has no backbone. He needs to control the narrative, and if he can’t, he should quit.
The job, Republican Speaker of the House, is impossible. Boehner couldn’t do it, Ryan couldn’t do it, and no one other than McCarthy even wanted the job because the Republican Party isn’t really a political party, with a set of political beliefs that unify them, it’s just an organization made up of loosely affiliated smaller groups of grifters all running their own scams.
It’s a mob of howler monkeys.
No Republican would vote for Jeffries for speaker. But I bet if there were another snap election, a moderate Republican could court some Democratic votes and win a consensus vote for Speaker.
It would render the Freedom Caucus irrelevant for as long as that centrist coalition could hold.
There are no real moderate Republicans. Anyone sane got booted from the party for not falling in line with Trump.
There are a few left, they were elected in competitive districts and while there aren’t that many of them, their election enabled Kevin to gain his majority, and they simply can’t win there spouting this MAGA stuff. So they might be convinced to nominate one of their own, particularly if the only alternative is a Freedom Caucus nutter.
Is ruling over the shitgibbons really that important to him?
Evidently. He put his neck on the chopping block to get the speaker seat and now he has to continuously convince them not to swing the axe
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mr. McCarthy has signaled for weeks that he wants to pursue an impeachment inquiry of the president to give congressional investigators more power to dig into Mr. Biden’s family finances with the aim of uncovering wrongdoing.
The speaker still believes a House vote is necessary to formally start an impeachment inquiry, according to the people familiar with his plans, who spoke about them on the condition of anonymity.
If an impeachment inquiry were to be approved, House investigators would issue subpoenas for the bank records of Mr. Biden and his family members, according to those familiar with the plans.
The move to endorse an impeachment inquiry, reported earlier by Punchbowl News after the speaker had suggested it publicly for weeks, comes as Mr. McCarthy is under intense pressure from his right flank.
Representative Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican and frequent critic of the speaker, plans to deliver a floor speech on Tuesday outlining the arch-conservative case against Mr. McCarthy, laying the groundwork for a potential move to oust him.
Mr. Gaetz and others argue that Mr. McCarthy has failed to live up to promises he made to win the speakership, including in his handling of the budget process, where they are pushing for steep spending cuts that have little chance of enactment in a move that could force a shutdown within weeks.
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I guess donnie Bin Laden grabbed the GOP by the McCarthy too.
