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Republican US Rep Matt Gaetz moves to oust McCarthy as speaker
Far-right Republican Representative Matt Gaetz on Monday moved to oust fellow Republican Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, injecting an additional element of chaos into an already tumultuous Congress.
"Far-right Republican Representative Matt Gaetz on Monday moved to oust fellow Republican Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, injecting an additional element of chaos into an already tumultuous Congress. Moments after his much-anticipated move on the House floor, Gaetz held an impromptu press conference in which he acknowledged that his effort might fail - at least on the first try. Asked who he would support as a replacement for McCarthy, Gaetz said: "I think very highly of Steve Scalise. I would vote for Steve Scalise" as well as many other Republicans.
Gaetz and other far-right Republicans are angered that McCarthy relied on Democratic votes to pass a temporary funding extension on Saturday that headed off a partial government shutdown. Republicans control the chamber by a narrow 221-212 majority, and it would take as few as five defections to threaten McCarthy's hold on power, if all Democrats voted against him."
Matt Gaetz is totally exposing just how triggered and in disarray the Democrats are.....After the Democrats got McCarthy elected as speaker, they are now powerless to stop him from being voted out -- in fact, in a brilliant move, Gaetz will be relying on Democrats to vote against McCarthy...The Democrats plan to install McCarthy (whom nobody wanted as Speaker) is blowing up in their face -- they are afraid that a true Constitutional Conservative will take the role and when that happens, the Democratic Party is finished.
I need to repeat this....Matt Gaetz has outsmarted the Democrats and exposed their diabolical scheme to get McCarthy elected as speaker and now the Dems have nowhere to turn......even McCarthy is telling the Dems he will not work with them to help save him as speaker...if they ask him for anything in return for voting him in as speaker, they will get nothing..
This means the Dems will have to work with Matt Gaetz to get a new more Conservative speaker elected...who will in turn, destroy the rest of the Democratic Party....Matt will go down as the most brilliant Congressional legislator of all times for this brilliant move...I know to the rest of us, it looks like Republicans eating each other alive, but that is what the media wants you to think...Truth is, it is the Democrats who are desperate and are about to lose it all.