With a vote of 216 to 210, the House removed McCarthy from the Speaker role.
NOW – Kevin McCarthy removed as Speaker of the U.S. House pic.twitter.com/6rfzxHTteT
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It is the first time in history the Speaker has been ousted from the role.
Eight Republicans voted against McCarthy:
Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Rep. Bob Good of Virginia, Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina and Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana.
Rep. Patrick McHenry is interim speaker:
Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina will now temporarily lead the House of Representatives after the speaker’s position was vacated on Tuesday.
McHenry, who is a top ally of Kevin McCarthy, was appointed speaker pro tempore.
His name was on a list McCarthy was required to give to the clerk in case of a vacancy.
The speaker pro tempore, which is the official title, can only recess the House, adjourn the chamber and recognize speaker nominations.
GAETZ: “It’s to the benefit of this country that we have a better speaker of the House than Kevin McCarthy. Kevin McCarthy couldn’t keep his word. He made an agreement in January regarding the way Washington would work and he violated that agreement. We are $33 trillion in debt. We are facing $2.2 trillion annual deficits. We face a de-dollarization globally that will crush Americans, working class Americans. Kevin McCarthy is a feature of the swamp. He has risen to power by collecting special interest money and redistributing that money in exchange for favors. We are breaking the fever now and we should elect a speaker who is better.”
.@RepMattGaetz speaks with reporters moments after Kevin McCarthy was OUSTED as Speaker of the House:
"It's to the benefit of this country that we have a better Speaker of the House than Kevin McCarthy!"
"We are breaking the fever now, and we should elect a speaker who's… pic.twitter.com/V7KcXE5TQ3
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Thank you Mr. Gaetz. What will you do now, since you planned this so well?
I guess vote in new speaker and then defund as much Biden garbage as possible.
Would t that be a miracle
Where will they find a candidate that Gaetz and every other republican finds acceptable?
Any candidate that actually wants to defund Biden’s priorities instead of furthering them would probably be acceptable.
True, but a majority of republicans don’t support this, unfortunately.
And if we can’t find one of those, it’s time to open the safe and get cleaning.
Well, if a ‘majority of Republicans’ want to out themselves as Biden supporters and/or closet progressive marxists (finally) that works for me.
Sunshine, still the best disinfectant.
With a bare majority in the house and the senate in democrat hands, is there anyone capable of acting like an adult and telling the unruly children they’re not going to get what they want at this time? Being a populist doesn’t mean jack shit when you don’t have the power to back it up.
“With a bare majority in the house and the senate in democrat hands, is there anyone capable of acting like an adult and telling the unruly children they’re not going to get what they want at this time?
Matt Gaetz just did.
The unruly children have been pretending their wishes were reality and that they could pay for those wishes with insincere promises forever.
Someone had to make the hard choice to stop them.
Now the work of fixing all that they broke starts.
Maybe, Maybe not. Nothing was going to change with McCarthy sitting there. He’s an establishment guy and much too willing to work with the pedophile in Chief against the interest of American people. So in some, even if the new guy does nothing but obstruct and absolutely nothing happens, we’re much better off. This is the beauty part, the house can’t conduct any other business until a new speaker is seated. So effectively, the legislative branch of the government is shut down at this point until they seat another speaker.
DJT would make a top tier Speaker…::: just putting that out there.
He’s already said he doesn’t want it.
It should not be this hard. Continuing spending at recent levels, boosted by all the Covid spending, is ridiculous. A baseline should start at 2019 levels adjusted for subsequent inflation. A $2 trillion deficit in a year is nuts. Unfortunately, neither Democrats or the other party, “Democrats-lite”, seem to care.
he will run for Speaker
He has said he won’t so we will see if you or he is right.
How about Trump for Speaker? The position does not require membership in the HoR so it is possible.
It’s possible, but Trump would make a terrible speaker. The only time it might be a good idea to elect him would be if the vice presidency was already vacant, and the presidency was about to become vacant, so he could be elected speaker and almost immediately resign to be president. That might make sense, if they want to do that; we know he can do a good job at the presidency. But the speakership would make him miserable, and he’d be bad at it.
At first sure, he isn’t exactly used to having to build a consensus to make collective decisions. He would get the opportunity to try and build legislative coalitions up close and personal. It would be a useful learning opportunity for him to build some experience trying to herd cats.
He has shown zero ability to form a consensus with anything. It’s his way or no way. He is the absolute worst choice for Speaker. The Speaker’s job is to go to both sides and try to find common ground unless they have a big majority. They don’t.
“It’s his way or no way.”
The neverTrumper deep state government man speaks. Let’s see what is on the list that’s his way:
1) stopped ISIS cold
2) EO stopping the drug companies from charging medicare more than what they charged foreign countries
3) EO forcing hospitals to disclose their prices
4) Move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
5) ENERGY INDEPENDENCE for the first time in my lifetime of 70 years, and record low energy prices
6) Started no new wars
6A) Abraham Accords, bringing peace to the middle east instead of war
7) Elimination of regulations, required to eliminate 8 to add a new one
8) Cut Taxes across the board
9) Increased the individual tax credit eliminating the need to file more complicated returns
10) Started the space force, sorely needed today
11) Replaced NAFTA with an agreement better for American workers
12) Put tariffs on china, starting the process of moving American production out of the enemy’s land
13) Brought back massive amounts of money saved in foreign countries
14) Withdrew from the farce know as the Paris Climate Accords
15) Withdrew from the Iran deal
16) Increased the $$$ of the average family by over 5K
17) Started the process of fixing the VA
18) Increased the spending by other NATO countries
19) Killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
20) Created several million jobs, actual creation not bafflegab bullshit
21) Economic growth rates were going up, somewhere around 4% before the marxist killed the economy with the scam chinaVirus
22) Lowest rate of unemployment ever, across the board for blacks, hispanics, asians, veterans, etc.
23) Opened ANWAR and had the Keystone pipeline being constructed
There is much more of course.
I recall we had this Trump-related Speaker discussion some months back.
That unlikely circumstance may or may not be to the genuine benefit of this great nation …
But think of the outrageous entertainment potential.
Exactly, it’s so great to posture. I look forward to Gaetz being removed from the Conference once the dust clears.
Of course, you want all actual Americans removed.
According to Democrats: “Democracy in action.”
My take? If McCarthy did the same for the Republican Party that Pelosi did for Democrats, there would be no infighting.
Why is it that Democrats are exceptional at being aligned, but the Republican Caucus is also aligned with Democrats. Of course, it didn’t help that Gaetz did the deed on the Democrats side of the aisle, but it still had to be done.
Otherwise we’ll be destroying our country.
Because the Dems are sheep. The Rs at least have differing opinions and that is what our government is supposed to be. The Dems represent themselves, not their constituents. The party is everything to the Dems but not the Rs.
“The Dems represent themselves, not their constituents.”
LOL, that’s the china owned republicans 100%. The marxist democrats actually do represent their nutcase constituents.
Apparently vote for Jim Jordan. I trust him more than that sleaze swamp rat McCarthy. Now, how to drive a stake through the heart if Cocaine Mitch
Non actions have consequences.
McCarthy really didn’t want to negotiate with Gaetz et al. FAFO.
He ALREADY negotiated with them at the beginning of this term.
He refused to keep the public promises he made during that negotiation. McCarthy thought he could flip them the finger and the Democrats would protect him.
How wrong he was.
I think this is important. Is there a handy list of these promises?
They were posted all over the place.
The BIG ones that were violated:
-Promised a floor vote on a term limits bill – hasn’t even PRETENDED he’s going to go through with this
-Submit an actual 10 year balanced budget for a floor vote – he hasn’t even PRETENDED he’s going to do this
-Promise to no longer submit massive omnibus spending bills, that there would be significantly smaller individual bills for government departments. This is the one that finally broke the camel’s back along with the refusal to submit a budget
-Promise to release the J6 tapes – he ‘released’ them to Tucker, who promptly got fired. They were never ‘released’ at all
I believe there was also concrete promises for border security and defunding the 87000 IRS agents, which he both reneged on.
Basically the ONLY things McCarthy actually did of what was promised, was committee assignments (because those had to be done immediately), and starting the ‘weaponization’ investigation, which basically just produced a bunch of sound bytes. He had to be forced to open up the impeachment inquiry, kicking and screaming the entire way.
In short, McCarthy made a bunch of promises to get made Speaker, and has fulfilled almost none of them, and thumbed his nose at Gaetz, expecting the Democrats to salvage his Speakership.
To be stupid enough to publicly taunt Gaetz to ‘bring it on’ when he didn’t have the votes demonstrates that he’s so stupid and incompetent that he doesn’t deserve to be Speaker on that alone.
And several cowards failed to vote at all.
To be fair, I’ve heard that Luna just gave birth and had complications.
Usually when that happens they find someone who would vote the other way and pair them off.
I’m not sure that the House works that way, but the Senate does.
Obviously, she’s not included. As far as I know, nobody else is having a baby.
So you have good reason to believe that the other sis not have good reason to believe it?
Two of them sneaked in after the House was recessed to add votes for dismissal. I don’t care what their reasons were.
Luna had complications, Pelosi is at DiFi’s funeral.
Jeffries will be the next speaker.
I know people like you keep saying this in hope 😂😂
I was afraid that would happen in January. All it would take is a few bought-off Republicans and surprise!! But it didn’t happen. Nobody ever said I have good political instincts.
No way. No Republican would ever vote for him. It may take 20 or 30 ballots to find someone a majority can support, and it might even end up being some DINO (if any exist), but it won’t be Jeffries.
Republicans are stupid, but not THAT stupid.
Not Jamaaal Bowman?!?
Would we see any actual difference if he was?
Paper thin difference at best.
Waste of time on nothing more than brinksmanship.
It was about promising the American people and then turning around and stabbing us in the back
It just couldn’t go on
One Mc gone, 2 to go
Watch Kevin get voted right back in, if he even wants it.
Good luck with that.
McCarthy vs Hakeem Jefferies, I guess we get to see how these “conservatives” vote on that
Rematch of January. I am confident the McCarthy haters would like him better than Jeffries. But a few others, some RINO’s that think it’s a “historic moment”, might defect and be called heroes in the Democrat lore that will be taught to schoolchildren forever in the future.
He may very well get voted right back in; he probably should be. But if so he will be chastened by the experience. He or his successor need to know that when you make a commitment in order to get the position you have to keep it. It’s not like a campaign promise to “lock her up” which you make with absolutely no intention of ever keeping it.
How?
Every day we bitch that there are no consequences for criminals and turncoats.
Today there were consequences, and we find reasons to bitch about that.
Like another writer wrote elsewhere, “today we decapitated ourselves.”
But sometimes that’s necessary. And it’s not as if decapitation is permanent.
I think of it more like popping and draining a blister.
Not me. I applaud he decision to oust McCarthy. It should have happened with Boner and Ryan, too.
Not me man. I can happily live with today. Eff the establishment goons and in particular the very loud neocon voices crying in their beer.
McCarthy and the establishment made concessions and promises to the populist bloc while simultaneously handing the populist bloc a ‘grenade’ to keep th Speaker and establishment honest. They can hardly be upset when the populist bloc, disappointed by the deliberate provocations of the establishment, chooses to pull the pin.
The dynamic of power changed in Jan. An object lesson was made during the selection of a Speaker. Apparently the establishment didn’t take that lesson to heart.
In prior years and decades the balance of power was in the hands of members representing Northern moderate to liberal CD and representatives of moderate suburban CD. For years and years they repeatedly watered down the legislative agenda that voters wanted. They demanded higher spending. They refused to take border security seriously.
Today a portion of that very large outstanding bill came due. The populist bloc, for now, hold the balance of power in the HoR. They demonstrated they are prepared to take down a Speaker if their concerns are dismissed as they were in prior decades. Hopefully a repetition will not be needed.
Yes, McCarthy’s brinksmanship. He was betting that nobody would pull the trigger on him; now he knows better, and if he stays out then his successor will also know better. I’m not sure Gaetz was right to do it, but from one point of view it had to be done, or the threat to do it would become empty forever.
I can see your point.
Pour les encourager les autres.
Let’s hope it’s a lesson that sticks.
Yep. Exactly so.
McCarthy has been cutting secret deals with Biden and the Dems for his entire time in that chair. He even lied to the Reps to finally get into the chair in the first place.
I’m very disappointed in Jim Jordan and Stefanick lying their butts off for him today. That was stomach turning to watch and listen to.
Gaetz has said he doesn’t want the chair and I believe him. It will be interesting to see what happens next though. Time for them to get to work!
Jordan is not an idiot. He doesn’t want that shitty dead end job.
If this stops McCarthy from forcing an up-or-down vote on Ukraine funding, it’s worth it. Betcha didn’t see that one coming, did you Joe Biden?
McCarthy is a product of DC and he has learned it well. He has no integrity and cannot be trusted to keep his word. Why was the House allowed to go home in August when he and all of them knew about this deadline on the budget? They get paid $174,000 a year to do the work and they still can’t get it done. We need a real leader who works for the people, not the House and themselves.
And it’s not like they ever work a full week when they are in session.
When do the office movers come in and put Kevin in a smaller office?
So what is the process now? When do they have another session to decide the speakership.
There is an interim Speaker who presides over the House until a new Speaker is voted in. No business can be conducted until then.
Hakeem Jefferies might get his shot
You must work for the government and it really chaps your a$$ that marxist McCarthy has been called on his lies.
Hell, there ain’t a dimes worth of difference in what a jeffries would do and what McCarthy has done. Not even a nickel.
I figured the no business part because that’s the rule when the House first convenes, but when do they have a session to elect a new speaker?
Well, that fortune cookie came true: we live in interesting times.
The speaker doesn’t have to be a house member.
The return of Newt?
I’d have said maybe, until Gingrich decided to pick sides and call for Gaetz to be expelled from the Congress.
Unforced error Newt. Not a good look.
Gingrich is another deep stater. He fools people, but that’s what he is. A true government man.
McCarthy did it to himself. The CR early this year, the debt limit increase this summer and now another CR to push out the spending again. He had all year to get the 12 Appropriation Bills ready to go and failed. Instead of railing on Twitter or having his surrogates go on Fox and trash Gaetz he should have kept his word and at least brought 12 bills to the floor for debate.
He could have kept them in session instead of a six week or so summer vacation where nothing was passed. He badly misjudged the timeline and is paying the price. I guess that campaigning and fundraising was more important than getting budget bills passed.
Gaetz acted like Republicans had a super-majority. If things crumble further, especially impeachment, what will he say from his safe perch? Will he accept responsibility if he’s shown to be short-sighted?
McCarthy lied and cut a secret deal with the WH, Schumer, and McConnell. I hope pleasing them over a 45-day CR was worth the end of his political career.
Not defending him. On the other hand, not too impressed with Gaetz’s zero sum game. Maybe things will work out. But the way things usually go, this may be a mistake of epic proportions. Guess we’ll see.
They had justification to remove him after the debt ceiling fiasco, he was given a second chance with the budget bills and could get those delivered. Where is the rest of the Jan. 6 security footage we were promised? Three strikes and you are out.
“…a mistake of epic proportions.”
LOL, geez. What exactly do you think will be the epic mistake? Do you think McCarthy acted remotely in the best interests of Americans?
So basically Kevo should have stayed just because right? Never mind getting someone in who actually holds Democrats accountable and puts America first for a change?! 🤔
And how sure of you that will happen because of what Gaetz did? There’s the rub.
How sure was I that JFK’s brinksmanship was going to make the USSR blink?
How sure was I that Reagan’s arms escalation would crater them completely?
How sure was I that Heller’s lawsuit was going to win?
Sometimes you just have to throw the damn dice.
You’ll NEVER win if you don’t.
Sometimes you do. The question is whether or not this is one of those times?
Tend to agree more with you know who:
“Why is it that Republicans are always fighting among themselves, why aren’t they fighting the Radical Left Democrats who are destroying our Country?”
If this had happen to Boehner then McCarthy probably would not have run. This may have some short term consequences, but having this not happen is not going to make things better,
“If not us, who? If not now, when?” – JFK
That’s not JFK, that’s Hillel the Elder, in the first century BCE.
“Why is it that Republicans are always fighting among themselves, why aren’t they fighting the Radical Left Democrats who are destroying our Country?”
Because the only thing stupider than leaving your rear unguarded is depending on turncoats to guard it.
You’ve got to get your own forces under control first before you press the fight onto someone else’s.
“why aren’t they fighting the Radical Left Democrats”
Softball. Because they are Radical Left Republicans, which is so obvious any moron can figure it out.
““Why is it that Republicans are always fighting among themselves, why aren’t they fighting the Radical Left Democrats who are destroying our Country?””
The Republicans aren’t fighting amongst themselves.
The Republicans are fighting against the leftist tools who have marched through and taken control of their party.
Finally.
Well it certainly won a gonna happen with McCarthy in there, he was much too willing to work with the pedophile in the Communists
Hello? There has to be an opening to elect a new speaker. Maybe we will get a person who puts their country before their career.
If there’s to be an up or down vote on Ukraine funding, which Russia might interpret as a formal declaration of war, the first since WW2 in the US, I’d rather it come from Hakeem Jeffries than a Republican. Let the Dems own this whole thing.
“which Russia might interpret as a formal declaration of war”
The hyperbole is loud tonight. Hell, they might interpret a frog chirping as a declaration of war.
And then you actually type “the first since WW2 in the US” as though it’s meaningful.
McCarthy said yesterday on Gaetz’s threat to vacate him, “Bring it!”
Well, Gaetz brought it. And, Biden, McConnell. Schumer, Graham, and all RINO’s just received a message.
Thank God for Matt Gaetz! He’s the real deal!!
I can’t believe I lived to see it!
Every time he talks about de-Dollarization, my head explodes because I know no media will report what that REALLY means!!!! He gets it!
Sorry I meant to up vote
Think this would improve anything?
I’m 43 and the GOP has been saying something along these lines to excuse inaction since I registered to vote. Anything that may push back on the constant capitulation to the left is met with statements such as this.
They’ve been saying it because it’s right. But sometimes you just have to do something anyway. I don’t know whether this was really the correct time for it, but if you never act until you’re sure it’s the right time you’ll never act at all.
The lesson had to be taught; now it has been. Maybe McCarthy should be voted back in, but if so it will be a chastened McCarthy.
Think doing nothing, and letting them cave to the Democrats time after time will improve anything?
Maybe, Maybe not. Nothing was going to change with McCarthy sitting there. He’s an establishment guy and much too willing to work with the pedophile in Chief against the interest of American people. So in some, even if the new guy does nothing but obstruct and absolutely nothing happens, we’re much better off.
Sorry, I just have to laugh! Our former President is under indictment in two states, and his whole family is in jeopardy in brazen New York, and now our Speaker of the House was just tossed out on his keister. And our leader of the Senate is old and frail. Oh, yeah, we Republicans are in great shape! If, like the proverbial phoenix, a Republican leader emerges from the ashes, it will be a miracle!!!
The proverbial “rearranging the deck chairs as the boat is sinking” scenario. It appears the Feckless just opened themselves up, showing their weak underbelly for attack. I plan to tune out, let the rats fight amongst themselves, see who’s standing in the aftereffect of this idiocy. Congress – like our Oval Office – has become a laughing stock to the world at the hands of a bunch of juvenile poseurs who (most, not all) couldn’t get a job running a self-checkout at Walmart.
Oh I just heard an interesting take Ron Paul for Speaker. Though he might lose Sparz’s vote.
‘Performative… theatrics’: DeSantis questions effort to oust Kevin McCarthy
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/10/03/ron-desantis-questions-matt-gaetzs-push-to-oust-kevin-mccarthy/71045932007/
Even though he opposed McCarthy before it was coo.
Who?
Anyone want to bet that McCarthy runs for the office again and wins?
So the Republicans are bent on political suicide. Shades of 1964. These people are stark, raving nuts.
That’s why Kev kept caving to the left. Political suicide is right. If NOT for Trump and the Freedom caucus…there wouldn’t BE a Republican party anymore.
Hey, I’m an independent. I’ll live if you get your way. Keep right on playing with yourselves. LOL
An independent what? Communist?
The Republicans are finally fighting back against the hands around their throats and the throats of all Americans.
Neither party can win without the independent voters. So go jump off the cliff if that’s what you want. The Rs did it in 1964 and the Ds did it in 1972. Good luck. The Rs had so many advantages, and now they’re throwing them away. What a pack of incompetent juveniles.
So you think in 1964 they should have gone with Rockefeller?! There was no way to win the 1964 election, but nominating an actual conservative revitalized the party; without that there would have been no point in continuing the GOP at all. It was Goldwater’s nomination that eventually gave us Reagan; should have happened in 1968, but too many people thought Nixon’s anti-communist creds somehow made him a conservative.
I don’t know who they should have gone with, but I know that LBJ got as big a landslide as it gets, followed by escalation in Vietnam, the groundwork for the inflation of the 1970s, and the Great Society. Hey, if that’s what you want, go for it.
I’ve been on the cusp of going R, but hadn’t done it because “once burned, twice shy.” The Ds are horrendous, and the Rs can’t find their asses with both hands. Looks like another write-in for president next year, and I might just skip the congressional race in my district.
Want to lose? This is a great way to accomplish defeat.
It’s a long, long way down to them rocks below. 8 Republicans: The crying baby caucus. If they hold out, the party will deserve its fate. The country will be really bad off for it, but what’s “country” compared to petulant, juvenile, egotistical stupidity? We shall see.
The GOPe should have read history. Unless they want to be the modern version of the Whigs they need to govern in the of their voters and not their donors.
This has been coming for a long time. In 1960 enthusiasm for Nixon and the GOP was low.
Conservatives said that there wasn’t a dimes difference between the two parties. Actually though they were right about Nixon being a big government supporter they were wrong about JFK who turned out to be a pragmatist. His domestic policy of lower taxes to jump start the economy was revolutionary for a Democrat. His philosophy on the economy was simple “a rising tide floats all boats”.
In the interests
Good night Gracie…