In newly released interviews with Time Magazine, Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene gloated that they have control over California Rep. and House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy.
If Republicans take back the House in this year’s midterm elections — as political analysts expect — Gaetz, Greene and other members of the so-called "MAGA Squad" could have undue influence in who becomes the next speaker. This, Gaetz and Greene said in the Time article, means McCarthy needs to curry favor with them if he hopes to become speaker.
“Greene is forthright about the fact that she expects to have some leverage over McCarthy if he seeks the Speakership, and she intends to make the most of it,” the author of that article, Molly Ball, wrote. “Whoever wants to be the next speaker, Greene tells me, is going to have to earn her backing—and that of her allies.”
Gaetz said McCarthy’s subservience to him was apparent in two separate instances that occurred earlier this year. The first was when McCarthy told the rest of the Republican caucus he would call Gaetz and admonish him for repeatedly assailing Rep. Liz Cheney after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
“Gaetz tells me that McCarthy did subsequently call him, but the conversation went rather differently,” Ball wrote. “The interaction, Gaetz says, felt more like a box-checking exercise than a tongue-lashing.”
This is what politics have been reduced to in this country.
We knew McCarthy was weak when he ran to Mar La Go and kissed Trump's ass.
If Republicans take back the House in this year’s midterm elections — as political analysts expect — Gaetz, Greene and other members of the so-called "MAGA Squad" could have undue influence in who becomes the next speaker. This, Gaetz and Greene said in the Time article, means McCarthy needs to curry favor with them if he hopes to become speaker.
“Greene is forthright about the fact that she expects to have some leverage over McCarthy if he seeks the Speakership, and she intends to make the most of it,” the author of that article, Molly Ball, wrote. “Whoever wants to be the next speaker, Greene tells me, is going to have to earn her backing—and that of her allies.”
Gaetz said McCarthy’s subservience to him was apparent in two separate instances that occurred earlier this year. The first was when McCarthy told the rest of the Republican caucus he would call Gaetz and admonish him for repeatedly assailing Rep. Liz Cheney after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
“Gaetz tells me that McCarthy did subsequently call him, but the conversation went rather differently,” Ball wrote. “The interaction, Gaetz says, felt more like a box-checking exercise than a tongue-lashing.”
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This is what politics have been reduced to in this country.
We knew McCarthy was weak when he ran to Mar La Go and kissed Trump's ass.
