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Kevin McCarthy is a spineless and broken shell of a man?!!
There’s going to be pain and suffering for Kevin McCarthy. We just don’t know how much.
Since taking over as Speaker of the House in January, McCarthy has been surprisingly resilient and effective. But with Congress back from August recess, McCarthy now faces what may be the greatest challenge of his political career.
The Republican-led House has to pass a spending package between now and September 30, or risk a government shutdown. The GOP’s right flank wants cuts and concessions that GOP moderates and mainstream conservatives view as unachievable, ill-advised, and politically toxic.
With a razor-thin Republican majority, it’s hard to see how McCarthy can thread the needle of funding the government without enduring a challenge from the right to his speakership. Indeed, these two things may be mutually exclusive.
What we are left with is a chaotic situation with no clear outcome in sight—and no obvious exit strategy. And the more you learn about the situation, the more fraught it appears. Consider the conundrum.
Last month, the conservative House Freedom Caucus published their list of demands, which included opposing a short-term funding extension that would kick the can down the road, as well as refusing to support any bill that does not “Address the unprecedented weaponization of the Justice Department and FBI” and “End the Left’s cancerous woke policies in the Pentagon…”
They also said they would “oppose any blank check for Ukraine…”
Good luck meeting these demands. Let’s say everyone decided to give the Freedom Caucus what they want. What would that even mean, exactly? For example, not everyone agrees we currently give a “blank check” to Ukraine.
When these demands are predictably not met, it seems more likely than not that Freedom Caucus members—who seem to be itching for a fight—could bring a motion to “vacate the chair,” which would force a vote on removing McCarthy as speaker.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-only-weapon-willingness-000129031.html
There’s going to be pain and suffering for Kevin McCarthy. We just don’t know how much.
Since taking over as Speaker of the House in January, McCarthy has been surprisingly resilient and effective. But with Congress back from August recess, McCarthy now faces what may be the greatest challenge of his political career.
The Republican-led House has to pass a spending package between now and September 30, or risk a government shutdown. The GOP’s right flank wants cuts and concessions that GOP moderates and mainstream conservatives view as unachievable, ill-advised, and politically toxic.
With a razor-thin Republican majority, it’s hard to see how McCarthy can thread the needle of funding the government without enduring a challenge from the right to his speakership. Indeed, these two things may be mutually exclusive.
What we are left with is a chaotic situation with no clear outcome in sight—and no obvious exit strategy. And the more you learn about the situation, the more fraught it appears. Consider the conundrum.
Last month, the conservative House Freedom Caucus published their list of demands, which included opposing a short-term funding extension that would kick the can down the road, as well as refusing to support any bill that does not “Address the unprecedented weaponization of the Justice Department and FBI” and “End the Left’s cancerous woke policies in the Pentagon…”
They also said they would “oppose any blank check for Ukraine…”
Good luck meeting these demands. Let’s say everyone decided to give the Freedom Caucus what they want. What would that even mean, exactly? For example, not everyone agrees we currently give a “blank check” to Ukraine.
When these demands are predictably not met, it seems more likely than not that Freedom Caucus members—who seem to be itching for a fight—could bring a motion to “vacate the chair,” which would force a vote on removing McCarthy as speaker.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-only-weapon-willingness-000129031.html
