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Matt Gaetz Gets Humiliated When He Tries To Boot McCarthy As Speaker

Shortly after the House of Representatives managed to pass a 45-day spending bill that will prevent a shutdown of the federal government, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was ready to give Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) the boot by calling for a motion to vacate the speakership.

Gaetz has been threatening to remove McCarthy all week if he and his extreme right-wing GOP allies didn’t get everything they wanted in the spending bill, CNN reported.

With the clock ticking down toward a government shutdown, Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz approached a Democratic lawmaker on the House floor this week with a surprising pitch.

Gaetz, who has been threatening Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s speakership almost daily, explained that his rebellion is motivated by a desire to find new leadership that keeps their word, tells the truth, and adheres to regular order – a message that this Democrat described to CNN as “utterly reasonable.”

Gaetz then floated veteran Republican Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma and House GOP Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota as two alternative examples he had in mind, and then attempted to gauge whether this member would be open to supporting an effort to oust McCarthy. The Democrat told CNN there’s been internal discussions about a wide range of potential asks – from power-sharing agreements to policy ideas.

But while Gaetz had every intention of calling a dismissal vote minutes after the spending package passed late Saturday, he was quickly ignored and then completely shut down on the House floor, according to Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News.

“WOW…. BICE motioned to adjourn the House Shortly before the gavel dropped, GAETZ tried to get the attention of WOMACK who was in the chair. GAVEL DROPPED before Gaetz could be recognized.”

That set off a wave of internet mockery aimed squarely at the confrontational Gaetz.

Poor Matt. Maybe he find some underage girls to help ease his humiliation.

 

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AOC Only Needs 3 Words To Troll Kevin McCarthy For His Latest Budget Demands

With a government shutdown now seeming more likely with each passing day, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is demanding that President Joe Biden agree to meet with him and “renegotiate” the debt ceiling budget deal they reached in June, mainly because McCarthy is under pressure from right-wing hardliners in his caucus who are insisting that federal spending for the neediest Americans be slashed to the bone.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is urging the president not to agree to any meeting with McCarthy, and she also had some choice words for the Speaker that have gone viral.

On Twitter, Ocasio-Cortez wrote:

“McCarthy already got his meeting w/ Biden and they struck a deal to keep gov open months ago. GOP held the entire US gov hostage in exchange for cuts & forced restart of student loan payments.

“Deal is done. Biden held his end. Nothing to relitigate. McCarthy can go pound sand.”

Hey, Kev: Go pound sand.

Later in the day Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez added a jab about “boy math” to counter a meme that circulated online over the summer referencing “girl math.”

“Boy math is needing 15 attempts to count the votes correctly to become Speaker and then shutting down the government 9 months later.”

The 15 votes refers to the ballots needed to elect McCarthy as speaker, a position he holds ever-so tenuously and could lose at any moment.

It remains to be seen if McCarthy can indeed procure the votes he needs to pass any legislation whatsoever, especially since the GOP has such a narrow margin in the House of Representatives.

The federal government will be shuttered on October 1 if the Speaker cannot cobble together an agreement. Considering that McCarthy is the weakest, most feckless House leader in history, there’s no need to be optimistic a deal will be struck.

 

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Eric Swalwell Only Needs One Word To Perfectly Describe House Republicans

Having completely abrogated their responsibility to pass a new spending bill that would keep the government running beyond October 1, House Republicans headed home for the weekend and will have five workdays to get legislation passed that will keep the federal government from shutting down.

Clown show? Yes. Clusterfu*k? Most definitely. Typical bullshit from the GOP. Yep.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is sick of the incompetence and Republican recalcitrance, all of it for nothing more than political posturing.

Appearing on CNN, Swalwell was asked by host John Berman if there would indeed be a government shutdown, to which the congressman responded:

“There shouldn’t be. … Democrats are ready to give the votes to keep the government open. But right now Republicans, they have failed to protect, they’ve failed to fund, and they’ve failed to govern. They are the failures.”

Swalwell: Democrats are ready to give the votes, to keep the government open. But right now Republicans, they have failed to protect. They failed to fund. And they failed to govern. They are the failures. pic.twitter.com/DlGOrNwYC9

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 22, 2023


Swalwell added that most of the blame can be laid at the feet of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

“He needs to choose competence over chaos. He needs to choose for the first time in his life to be a leader rather than a spectator speaker.”

McCarthy and his minions in the House caucus are indeed failures, and they’re willing to shutter the government to please another failure: One-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump, who is desperate to change the subject from his multiple indictments and 91 criminal charges.

The shutdown doesn’t have to happen. But as long as the GOP remains in control of the House, it probably will. Why? Because failures only know how to fail and losers are destined to lose.

 

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Nancy Pelosi Uses A Hilarious Hand Gesture To Express Her Disgust With Kevin McCarthy

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made it clear Wednesday evening exactly what she thinks about how Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is running things in the lower chamber of Congress, and the hand gesture she used to express herself set off laughter on social media.

Speaking with Anderson Cooper, Pelosi noted that the only reason McCarthy agreed to open an impeachment inquiry aimed at President Joe Biden is because he is so terrified of losing the Speaker’s gavel that he has given into every demand made of him by GOP extremists.

“You have to impeach the president or else we’re going to vacate the chair of speaker,” Pelosi said. “You have to shut down government or else we’re going to vacate the chair of speaker. This is not responsible governance, but it’s the chaos on the Republican side.”

Cooper asked if that doesn’t put McCarthy in what can best be called an “impossible situation.”

“Yeah. The incredibly shrinking speakership.”

As she made the comment, Pelosi also made a gesture with her hand that suggested either something being crushed or shriveling up, much like the so-called speakership of Kevin McCarthy.

It didn’t take long for Twitter users to express their delight.

Here’s the full Cooper-Pelosi interview:

 

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Overlooked Detail In Trump’s Latest Indictment Suggests Kevin McCarthy May Be Cooperating With Jack Smith

Publicly, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) says he’s disgusted and outraged that failed ex-president Donald Trump has been criminally charged for his role in the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election which led to the January 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol by thousands of pro-Trump rioters.

However, an overlooked detail in the latest indictment from Special Counsel Jack Smith suggests that McCarthy may have already provided damning evidence which could seal Trump’s fate when the case goes to trial.

According to Jose Pagliery of The Daily Beast, that detail can be found in the 115th paragraph of the indictment which was handed down Monday by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. The paragraph refers to Jan. 6 and reads:

At 3:00 p.m., the defendant had a phone call with the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives. The defendant told the Minority Leader that the crowd at the Capitol was more upset about the election than the Minority Leader was.

As Pagliery rightly notes, there’s only a few people who would have known what was said on that phone call and could have provided details to the special counsel.

By choosing to speak as an omniscient narrator for that paragraph, federal prosecutors have left it entirely unclear how they know what was said on that phone call. And that’s fueling speculation about a number of possibilities: Is there a recording of the call? Did Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows—who is speculated to have been in the room with Trump at the time—provide an account to investigators? Did McCarthy?

In time, we’ll likely get an answer to those questions, and when we do, if indeed the information came from McCarthy, the extremist wing of the House GOP will demand that he be removed as Speaker.

Imagine it: Trump in prison and McCarthy dumped by his own party. The GOP would be in tatters, and that’s the best possible news for the country.