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Representative Tom McClintock (R-CA) wrote a cute little letter to the dissenting 8 (or the hateful 8 as most are calling them these days) and told them sarcastically, “We truly don’t deserve you.”
Yeah, that’ll show them. Is the letter he wrote sarcastic? Arrogant? Helpful? Bitter? Derisive? I am sure you have your own opinions about it. Funny enough, Tom supported Jordan as the Speaker candidate and voted for him. However, he says McCarthy should never have been voted out in the first place.
Republican Tom McClintock voted in favor of Jordan. He says in a statement that “Kevin McCarthy never should have been ousted” but now “Jim Jordan is the majority’s choice and deserves the vote of every Republican.” – MyMotherLode.com
I had never heard of Tom McClintock before this letter-writing stunt, but I also don’t follow California politics. So, I guess his grandiose memo worked as far as getting some attention. Is the letter helpful? Not really. But I think if it made you laugh, then it was worth it, right?
OMG…Gaetz & the traitorous MAGA squatters of the @HouseGOP may never see daylight again due to this hilariously brilliant shade thrown by sane Republican Rep Tom McClintock in response to Gaetz et al’s weak & transparent attempt at martyring themselves, lol. pic.twitter.com/QSjd7YqNb7
— Notorious PJB (@PJBrizzle) October 22, 2023
McClintock’s letter was in response to Matt Gaetz trying to devise a compromise to get votes for Jordan. Matt Gaetz and others were willing to take punishment for their action to get McCarthy ousted and then to get Jordan voted in.
In a letter to their House Republican colleagues, 7 of the 8 Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy from the speakership said they’re “prepared to accept censure, suspension, or removal” from the House GOP conference if that’s what it takes to win over some of the holdouts. – Business Insider
But I am not here to lecture anyone. I’m just a blogger. You can probably tell I am in the minority here on this topic, too, and my opinion here doesn’t matter to anyone. I just want something good for America. And I guess we can “argue” about how something like this went down is unsuitable for America. It’s embarrassing, childish, or even detrimental. Oh yes, trust me, I’m not all happy and gleeful over here, either.
Everyone is sobbing about Matt Gaetz not having a plan already in place for a new Speaker when he brought up the motion to vacate, and what I think they really mean is that he wasn’t supported in his effort. Maybe to you, that means the same thing. And a lot is being said about how we could end up with Jeffries as Speaker.
I wonder where we’d be if Kevin stayed in as Speaker. You’d probably tell me business as usual.
Here is Tom McClintock scolding the juniors for that fateful decision on that fateful day and long before he wrote his letter.
Maybe Tom is a hero to most of you, and I don’t have any problems with his humorous letter. I am simply hoping we can put all of this behind us quickly. We are going on the fourth week of not having a Speaker, and for the life of me, I can’t figure out why we have taken DAYS off when this is such an important and urgent matter. Did we get a government shutdown anyway?
Next week will be interesting, to say the least. What do you think will happen?
Feature Image: Tom McClintock/Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED
Cameron says: I’m fine with nothing getting done in the short term. Maybe if McCarthy had done his job in the first place, he wouldn’t have been thrown out.
John Shepherd says: There is developing Populist narrative supporting the Traitorous Eight” that is deliberately setting up the Republicans for a 2024 defeat. Populists pushed the midterm narrative that GOPe wanted to lose. That was pure projection. It is the Populists who want the GOP to lose because they believe that defeat is their path to taking over the Republican Party. Unfortunately for them it was the Populists who went down to defeat in contested elections while those “RINO/GOPe” candidates won. Ironically, it was their electoral defeat that empowered the eight RINOs. Had Republican primary voters not proven so controllable by the Democrats, the Democrats, even bragged about spending $50m helping defeatable candidates get the Republican nominations in 10 districts, the “Traitorous Eight” would not have had the power to defeat McCarthy. Populists are playing for the team. Why do think there is all this Junior love in Populist circles?
John Shepherd says: “Other team”
Vatertortuga says: Funny, those of us who are populist, or conservative, or Tea Party are told to rally behind whomever is nominated for the party positions. Promises made to support the issues those of us not in the main stream of the party if we would only get behind whatever milque toast candidate the GOP-E puts forward are forgotten before the votes are even counted. Yet what happened every time? A knife in the back from our own supposed party. You can stuff the derisive comment that it’s the Populists that want defeat. How many candidates in 2022 were shut out by the Party because they were just “not electable”? R $s for Murkowski ring any bells?
McConnel made an agreement to not put any omnibus spending bills on the floor that he chose not to honor. Those 8 finally did what those of us have been screaming for since Bush 1, hold those Rs that stabbed us voters in the back responsible.
Spare me the projection from the RINOs, if you want a politician to do the right thing, then you have to make it unthinkable to not do the right thing.
Hate_me says: I’m glad McCarthy’s gone and I’m ok with a stalemate in the House. No better alternative, right now. There absolutely should have been a shutdown.
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