All posts tagged "Mccarthy"

Matt Gaetz and Nancy Mace were among the Republicans who received a "super snarky" letter from a colleague on Saturday.

Gaetz and seven other Republican representatives were responsible for booting Kevin McCarthy from the speakership, which resulted in the ongoing chaos we're seeing right now. Those eight far-right Republicans pushed hard to elect Jim Jordan as the new speaker and, when it became clear he couldn't clear the needed votes, they offered a "pound of flesh" in the form of potential censure, as long as Jordan is the new speaker.

That offer was apparently not appreciated by California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock. McClintock has reportedly pushed for the reinstallation of McCarthy to the speaker position....

Rep. Matt Gaetz on Thursday suggested God was going to choose the next House speaker.

Gaetz, who pushed for the removal of prior speaker Kevin McCarthy after months of infighting, appeared on a podcast called Fearless with Jason Whitlock, where he discussed the recent developments.

In a clip posted by the host, Gaetz can be seen talking about the role of God in his decision. ...

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), one of eight Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy as House speaker earlier this week, was torched in The Arizona Republic by E.J. Montini for trying to pretend he didn't vote for "chaos."

"When it comes to the aftermath of ousting Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs disagrees with … everybody," wrote Montini. Even former House Speaker Newt Gingrich effectively called Biggs and his cohorts "traitors," Montini noted, saying, "Ninety-six percent of Republicans voted for McCarthy. 4% voted against him. From my position as a longtime Republican activist, they are traitors. All eight of them should, in fact, be primaried. They should all be driven out of public life. What they did was go to the other team to cause utter chaos."

Biggs, speaking to constituents, denied that — but no one is really buying that, wrote Montini....

The recent House GOP infighting that led to a blow up in the removal of Kevin McCarthy's speakership can reportedly be traced to an ally of the ex-president.

Steve Bannon has been orchestrating several aspects from his "cavelike" podcast studio, the New York Times reported Wednesday. Bannon is a former Trump adviser whose associate was recently sentenced to prison time for a "Build the Wall" scheme they worked on together.

The Times says Bannon "has spent years promoting the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald J. Trump, railing against coronavirus mandates and what he refers to as a 'criminal invasion of the southern border.'"...

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted critics across the political spectrum who are angered House Democrats did not vote to keep Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, after Republicans ousted him on Tuesday.

“Contrary to how McCarthy’s defenders are behaving, men failing up is not a Constitutionally protected right,” Ocasio-Cortez said on social media. “The man made risky decisions and faced the natural consequences of them. I am not his mom, and my job is not to put pool noodles around hard corners for Republicans.”

AOC also blasted 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who is now a former Democrat, after he criticized Democrats on CNN....

Just hours after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) became the first House Speaker in U.S. history to be voted out of his position by Congress, interim speaker Patrick McHenry (R-NC) evicted former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) from their "hideaway" offices on Capitol Hill.

According to a new CNN report, McCarthy put McHenry up to this in revenge for House Democrats not providing the votes to save him from being ousted — and McCarthy actually plans to use the offices himself.

"Kevin McCarthy was behind interim Speaker Patrick McHenry’s move to kick former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Majority Leader Steny Hoyer out of their office spaces, two Republican sources told CNN," the outlet reported Wednesday. ...