Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy
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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy
Last night, after Kevin McCarthy fell short again on the 14th vote for Speaker, it was starting to look as if this would drag on to Monday. But a deal was reached for a 15th vote in which the six holdouts switched their votes to “Present,” which lowered the threshold McCarthy needed to win, and he secured the Speakership with 216 votes.
It got so tense that at one point, there were reports that Rep. Mike Rogers had to be restrained from lunging at diehard holdout Matt Gaetz, but frankly, he doesn’t look to me like he had any violent intent. I’d think that if anyone would’ve wanted to lunge at Matt Gaetz, it would’ve been the poor woman whose job was to keep taking and reading out the votes over and over and over. I was also going to demand free government Pepto-Bismol if I had to sit through another Democrat nomination speech for Hakeem Jeffries, lauding the Democrats for doing so much for America by passing giant spending bills that bloated government, crushed freedom, supercharged inflation and saddled our grandkids with even more unsustainable debt (they didn’t put it that way, of course, but I translated it into reality.)
This link has a list of the concessions McCarthy agreed to, including a single member being able to call a vote to fire the Speaker.
At this link, K.T. McFarlane explains how the concessions made to conservatives won’t weaken McCarthy, they’ll actually give him cover to stand up to Mitch McConnell when he's pressured to compromise with Democrats. He can say he has to answer to the people on the right who can remove him if he becomes a squishy big spender.
Anyway, now that this is finally over, maybe the new GOP Congress can get down to work, and they have a mountain of it that’s piled up over two years of Democrat rule, like manure at an unattended pig farm. I thought McCarthy’s acceptance speech struck the right tone, and I hope it mollified some of his critics. He made it clear that he intends to keep the Republicans’ “Commitment to America.”
I also enjoyed the warning he offered to Hakeem Jeffries, who had basked in a weeks’ worth of effusive praise and unanimous votes. McCarthy reminded him that “I also won 100 percent of my conference vote on this floor two years ago. So, good luck!"
A Tale of Two Narratives: Can you guess which one is true?
1. Liberal media outlets: Kevin McCarthy’s multiple losses before becoming House Speaker were an embarrassment and crushing humiliation for Donald Trump, proving that his endorsement no longer carries any weight with Republicans.
2. Breitbart.com: Trump played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in McCarthy’s victory, working the phones and calling Republican House members to keep McCarthy supporters united while persuading the holdouts to relent.
Here’s a hint: There’s actual verification from the people involved in narrative #2.