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Posted By: ladydawgfan, 12/18/2022 5:52:08 AM

Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become Speaker of the House of Representatives is increasingly imperiled by a small but growing clutch of hard-line Republicans. GOP Insiders and operatives say the California lawmaker’s longtime deputy, incoming House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), could serve as an emergency compromise candidate if the caucus’s paper-thin majority fails to rally around McCarthy during their Jan 3. leadership vote. “Our relationship is on the ascent,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), a member of the ultraconservative House GOP Freedom Caucus, told The Post of Scalise.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: F15 Gork 12/18/2022 6:13:41 AM (No. 1359249)
Perhaps I’m wrong but I suspect McCarthy will be the new speaker......the fix is in and the House will go back Democrat in ‘24. It’s the nature of things.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: FJB 2022 23 24 12/18/2022 6:21:06 AM (No. 1359251)
Thumbs up for Scalise, over MCarthy. Next get rid of McConnell in the Senate, PLEASE!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Colonel Mustard Seed 12/18/2022 6:22:22 AM (No. 1359253)
If I’m ever promoted to General Mustard Seed, the first thing I’ll do is ban scary adjectives from news articles. We’d know who the reporter meant if he referred to the House Freedom Caucus without that obligatory “ultraconservative.” As an aside, I could support Scalise. And may God bless the USA.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: PChristopher 12/18/2022 6:31:08 AM (No. 1359257)
I have to agree with #1....The Republicans always find a way to lose the House once they have, through a combination of the treason of RINOs and the cowardice of all the rest save but a few. It's almost like they feel they messed up by winning the House but have to stick it out until they can lose again. These establishment types have got to go.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 12/18/2022 6:57:31 AM (No. 1359269)
Republicans who are standing on principle?! May their tribe increase.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Strike3 12/18/2022 7:04:12 AM (No. 1359272)
As well it should be. GOP Lite is not good enough to make it through the Biden reign of error & terror. We need warfighters.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: stablemoney 12/18/2022 7:40:39 AM (No. 1359293)
We are supposed to cave, but McCarthy rejected all the proposals of the Freedom Caucus, so why would they support his being Speaker, and why should a conservative? We are told up front nothing is going to change, so it is time to get someone else. Otherwise, we are going to get nothing of substance, only some political show of oversight of corruption that we already know about, and also know nothing is going to be done about it. We are not going to get any rollback of socialism and big government. That is for certain. We will undergo another winter of covid emergencies. It will go on, unless the House actually steps up and uses the power voted to them for the people, and not the GOPe.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: spacer 12/18/2022 7:48:08 AM (No. 1359300)
Besides McCarthy being a full blown rino and an employer of a Taiwanese chicom his real sin is shacking up with Luntz.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 12/18/2022 8:39:50 AM (No. 1359341)
Look, Kev, you had every chance to seal the deal these past two years. But you avoided cameras and hid under your desk day after day while Nanie ran the show. So you want to be speaker? Well, you have just over two weeks to sell yourself to your Freedom Caucus in the House. A long shot. However, all is not lost, Kev. If enough dims vote for you, you are a shoo-in. Maybe you need to self yourself to the dims. Afterall, the uniparty has its advantages, no?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Daisymay 12/18/2022 9:11:33 AM (No. 1359369)
I've noticed the past few months FOX always gives McCarthy a boost by saying he's the "Most Likely" future Speaker of the House. I've always felt they were pushing him a bit too much. I really don't care for the Guy. I would love to see Steve Scalise get the Gavel!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Skinnydip 12/18/2022 9:13:07 AM (No. 1359373)
Guess his constant appearances on Fox aren’t helping.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: FormerDem 12/18/2022 9:54:28 AM (No. 1359420)
Or they may manage to put Hakeem Jeffries in instead.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: DVC 12/18/2022 10:21:15 AM (No. 1359454)
I do not trust McCarthy. When they had the House and the Senate under Trump, he was OK, but not really leading. I despise McConnell, certain that he is working hard against conservatives. I'm not so sure about McCarthy. Perhaps he is just a lukewarm 'conservative' and not really actively working against us as much as not working very effectively for us.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Geoman 12/18/2022 12:07:23 PM (No. 1359536)
So I guess the bloom is off of Trump, as his word is no longer automatic law here.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: MDConservative 12/18/2022 12:27:08 PM (No. 1359548)
#14 - Certainly you cannot question FPDT. And if McCarthy is somehow dumped, will the cultists claim victory or defeat? I don’t claim to understand the 3-D chess played here.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Rinktum 12/18/2022 1:54:05 PM (No. 1359592)
Is this just a Rino ruse to give the Speakership to a democrat? It sure appears that way. I do not want Kevin McCarthy in that position but more than that I do not want a democrat there. Is this just a bit of leverage to force McCarthy to work for the country and American people instead of working for his own interests? While I hate to say it, if it’s between McCarthy and a democrat, choose McCarthy. Maybe pressure can be put on him to do the right thing. If a democrat holds that seat, we will find ourselves in a real mess.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 12/18/2022 2:12:37 PM (No. 1359601)
In re #16, you mean like Nanie's daughter? Ugh.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: pensom2 12/18/2022 2:17:01 PM (No. 1359606)
McCarthy has no cojones. Even when the Republicans held the House majority, and elected RINO Paul Ryan, Pelosi was continually appearing before the cameras and the Washington Press Corps to plead her case, truthfully or not. How often have we seen Kevin calling press conferences to push his agenda to the American people? Nancy may be a treacherous, lying witch, but she has more cojones than John Boehner, Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy put together. My suspicion is that all of these individuals lack integrity, and have had skeletons in their closets in one form or another; they appeared afraid that if they insulted or challenged the democrats too forcefully, the dems would spill their guts to the world about what they found in these guys' closets. The FBI may have been a resource for the dems in this respect. We need someone who has at least the cojones and savvy of Newt Gingrich. You may or may not like Newt, but he's the last Republican Speaker who had a plan and had the cojones not to cave to the dems.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: curious1 12/18/2022 8:03:29 PM (No. 1359741)
#2, last time I looked Scalise had an F rating from a conservative evaluation site whereas Jordan had an A. Just so you know. Maybe the site was 'misinformation'. But then, why rate Jordan an A.
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