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It took fifteen times for Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to finally get across the procedural finish line and procure enough votes to become the 118th Speaker of the House of Representatives.
After the fourteenth failed vote due to a faction of GOP rebels thwarting his bid, Kevin McCarthy and nemesis Matt Gaetz had a dramatic showdown on the House floor.
Gaetz had voted “present,” leaving McCarthy just one vote away from taking the Speaker’s gavel.McCarthy could be seen making a passionate last-minute appeal to Gaetz as the votes were being counted. Kevin McCarthy confronts Matt Gaetz during 14th House Speaker vote. #118thCongress […]
Around the Web – Original Source: trendingpolitics.com
I saw a list of concessions made to the McCarthy opposition to get them to stand down and allow the swamp rat to win the speaker position.
Some of them are really good but will he keep his promise?
I doubt it, the safeguard to keep him honest is extremely weak.
Now any one person can call for his removal but what good is that if the majority of the other 221 vote to keep him?
There was no victory I can see here.
The 20 MAGA cowards, all of whom flipped, are claiming a big victory because they got concessions from the RINOS.
They falsely claim they won the battle.
They didn’t win the battle, they lost and negotiated a conditional surrender.
Anyone else notice that with all the concessions and investigations that were promised in order to get RINO McCarthy elected there was not mention at all of investigating the Dems stealing the 2018, 2020 and 2022 elections?