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As part of his bid to become speaker, McCarthy reportedly offered a rules change that will allow any one Republican to force a vote of “no confidence.”
Known as the motion to vacate, this would allow a single member to call a vote on the speaker’s ousting if they weren’t happy with how he was handling a particular bill or issue. Theoretically, a single far-right member could punish any collaboration with Democrats by submitting a motion to vacate, forcing a vote against the speakership. A majority of members would still have to agree to remove him, though. Some Democrats warned that the rule changes McCarthy agreed to in order to become speaker could blunt collaboration for fear of reprisals.
BREAKING: Rep. Matt Gaetz has just moved a motion to vacate the chair against Speaker Kevin McCarthy. WATCH pic.twitter.com/7GkyrkkpkT
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) October 2, 2023
The embarrassment continues. Yesterday, I wrote about the embarrassing squabbling and threats between Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy. These flaming maroons couldn’t find their backsides with their hands tied behind their backs. They couldn’t just get the Continuing Resolution (CR) done and get on to the budget bills so that they would have something to show voters to, you know, run on. Between these two, they managed to feck up the CR, make a spectacle of themselves, AND make every word in the Vox article prescient, which I really hate. Embarrassment. Is there a grown-up anywhere? Short answer: NO.
The New York Times wrote:
Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida moved on Monday to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his post in an act of vengeance that posed the clearest threat yet to Mr. McCarthy’s tenure and could plunge the House into chaos.
After days of warnings, Mr. Gaetz rose Monday evening to bring up a resolution declaring the speakership vacant. That started a process that would force a vote within days on whether to keep Mr. McCarthy in his post. In doing so, Mr. Gaetz sought to subject Mr. McCarthy to a rare form of political punishment experienced by only two other speakers in the history of the House of Representatives.
The move came just days after Mr. McCarthy moved to avert a government shutdown the only way he could — by relying on Democratic votes to push through a stopgap spending bill over the objections of an unmovable bloc of hard-liners in his own party, including Mr. Gaetz.
Under House rules, Mr. McCarthy and his leadership team will need to address the motion within two legislative days — though they could do so sooner.
And, in order to keep his Speaker’s Gavel, Kevin McCarthy could make even more concessions to Hakeem Jeffries. I am Conservative. I Super MAGA. I am embarrassed by the behavior of Gaetz, McCarthy and some of my fellow MAGAs. I hate the Uniparty as much as the next Trump girl, but you have to win in order to defeat the Uniparty. I have noticed that we are not WINNING. When I agree with Dan Crenshaw, the world is messed up.
We have a senile, unpopular Democrat president in the White House.
Voters are rightfully pointing to Democrats as responsible for an unprecedented border crisis, persistent inflation, and rampant crime in every major city in America.
But instead of pointing out those failures…
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) October 3, 2023
Representative Jim Jordan has said for a year that he doesn’t want to be Speaker. Truly, we need him doing the investigations. And, Jordan is right. Speaker McCarthy has done most of the things he promised, but we don’t hold the Senate and Leader Chuck Schumer is not ever going to bring up the Republican bills:
More from the NY Times:
“It is becoming increasingly clear who the speaker of the House already works for, and it’s not the Republican conference,” Mr. Gaetz said earlier Monday, making the case for Mr. McCarthy’s ouster. He added that the speaker had allowed President Biden to take his “lunch money in every negotiation.”
Mr. Gaetz cited Mr. McCarthy’s reliance on Democratic votes to push through the funding bill — a move that was necessary to avert a shutdown because Mr. Gaetz and 20 of his colleagues opposed a temporary funding bill. And he accused Mr. McCarthy of lying to his Republican members during spending negotiations and making a “secret deal” with Democrats concerning funding for Ukraine, which he and dozens of other conservatives have opposed.
Was there a “secret deal” with the Democrats? CBS News had this BEFORE Gaetz filed his Motion to Vacate:
Rep. Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, who says he plans to file a motion to oust McCarthy as speaker within days, spoke on the House floor Monday, demanding to know “what was the secret side deal on Ukraine?”
He accused McCarthy of “cutting a side deal to bring Ukraine legislation” to the floor in a vote separate from the short-term spending bill.
The president himself certainly fueled the idea, when CBS News asked him on Sunday, “Are you going to be able to trust Speaker McCarthy when the next deal comes around?”
“We just made one about Ukraine,” he replied. “So, we’ll find out.”
The removal of $6 billion in Ukraine funding from the temporary spending bill caused Sen. Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado, to put a hold on the bill when it arrived at the Senate a few hours before a shutdown would take effect if the resolution were not passed. He dropped his hold after Senate leadership released a statement saying, “In the coming weeks, we expect the Senate will work to ensure the U.S. government continues to provide critical and sustained security and economic support for Ukraine.”
When McCarthy was asked about the existence of a side deal Monday at the Capitol, he told reporters, “There is no side deal going on.”
Biden doesn’t know what day it is and McCarthy is slippery. I don’t trust Matt Gaetz at all. The real embarrassment of all this is that Miss AOC tries to play adult in the room.
Boy Math, Part 2: Motion to Vacate https://t.co/6M6Z40bcBW
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 2, 2023
They are all juvenile liars and an embarrassment.
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Carol Marks says: How dare Gaetz try to hold McCarthy accountable!
John Shepherd says: You lose a lot credibility when use terms like uniparty. President Trump has recently said he wants a grand compromise with the Democrats on abortion, Is that uniparty? He oked a give money to everyone Covid bill. Is that uniparty? How about 2019 $2T infrastructure compromise with Pelosi and Schumer in 2019? Is that uniparty? Let’s go way back 2017 when Trump tried to make a DACA for the Wall deal with the Democrats. Is that uniparty or is all this good because Trump. Maybe what you call uniparty is actually called governance in a Republic.
Now let’s get on to Gaetz. They aren’t talking expulsion because of his motion to vacate the chair. The ethics committee report is due out and it just might validate some serious ethics violations that merit expulsion. Gaetz is not making the motion because he wants the Speaker to be accountable. He is throwing up a smoke screen to inoculate himself from potential ethics charges. Don’t be gullible and fall for Gaetz’s theatrics.
GWB says: You lose a lot credibility when use terms like uniparty.
ROFL! With whom? With the GOPe who are progressives but just want it more slowly and with lower taxes? With the NeverTrumpers? With the people who will never vote for a Republican because they believe they’re NAZIs? With the Republicans who always cave to the Dems and regularly vote for capitulation to the Behemoth?
And, yes, Trump played much more footsie with the Swamp than many are willing to believe. (The DACA for the Wall deal was an attempt at actual political compromise – and the Dems didn’t take it.)
Maybe what you call uniparty is actually called governance in a Republic.
Aha. Here it is: “compromise is a virtue.”
Bulls***. Compromise is only a virtue if you AND the other side are looking to not undermine the foundations of the country. If you have antithetical goals* then compromise really only gives the enemy something he wants. If you’re surrendering to start with, this might be ok. But don’t call it a win in any way. If you’re negotiating with the cannibals on whether to eat you, and you agree to just let them have an arm, you did NOT “win”. If the Dems were interested in maintaining a free Republic as founded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, then I’d agree that meeting somewhere in the middle might be a good idea. But that’s NOT the case and hasn’t been for most of my lifetime.
(* And it’s true that a large part of the GOPe and Dems do not have antithetical goals. They just disagree on how rapidly we should approach the Progressive utopia. The Dems and GOPe have antithetical goals to people like ME, however.)
Gaetz is not making the motion because he wants the Speaker to be accountable.
Really? Because McCarthy made some promises to get the support of the non-GOPe holdouts in the Speaker vote. And McCarthy has reneged on almost every single one. That seems like a pretty easy call on “holding him accountable.”
You sound like a pro-Swamp creature.
GWB says: You blew up the front page with this one.
GWB says: Thank you for fixing it.
Joe R. says: We could do it Hamilton v. Burr style instead.
I’ll second Gaetz, with a belt-fed.
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