Newt Gingrich: The Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy are 'traitors'
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says it's a 'very sad' day after Kevin McCarthy's ousting from the speakership on 'Hannity.'
Nuff said!
yes we need garland to be re nominated and save the ever so righteous doj. Not a new guy who reads the constitution. Doj has been right on the money for 4 years. Insiders have to go and the election should of signaled that to you all. Ever take a look at the election maps of states and counties the amount of red on them. ought to signal something.
Rep. Dan Goldman on MSNBC just said he suspects there’s “funny business” going on due to a scheduled vote in just 2 days related to releasing the results of an ethics investigation to the public. Goldman suspects that his being nominated may have been done only to allow him to resign so the results of this ethics investigation won’t be released to the public. If so, he may not be a serious pick for AG and thus may never sit for a hearing for the nomination:
Larry,
I completely agree with the speculation from your source.
Gates would be the worst Attorney General in the history of that office. Yes, mcfarm even MUCH worse than the current one.
After what he did to great speaker, Kevin McCarthy, I have no respect for him. He also strongly supports the 2020 election steal and the Jan. 6th Trump lies as well as other far right crazy stuff.
Hopefully he won't be confirmed or this country is in huge trouble with a completely unqualified person in this key position the next 4 years.
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Re: Re: LIVE VOTE TO OUST MCCARTHY
By metmike - Oct. 3, 2023, 5 p.m.
"Just when you thought that politicians running our government couldn't get any more dysfunctional, we hit an new all time low.
Matt Gaetz is the quintessential example of everything that is wrong with our politicians.
Donald Trump has already divided and massively damaged the R party but fellow ego maniac Gaetz, obviously sees how Trump is idolized and wants to get in on some of his share of destroying the R party and country because he knows the far right will put him on a pedestal next to Trump.
This pathetic, self serving show boat is doing this to get attention to further his career, which includes running for governor of FL.
This is entirely based on him exploiting the Donald Trump factor for his career at the expense of the R party and the country."
Re: Re: Re: LIVE VOTE TO OUST MCCARTHY
By metmike - Oct. 3, 2023, 5:19 p.m.
https://newrepublic.com/post/169848/matt-gaetz-votes-donald-trump-house-speaker
Republicans are attacking social media companies like Twitter for warning the public about Trump’s disinformation.
Re: LIVE VOTE TO OUST MCCARTHY
By 12345 - Oct. 3, 2023, 5:39 p.m.
I'VE NEVER CARED FOR GAETZ, AT ALL.
THIS AIN'T ABOUT HIM, NOR TRUMP... IMO
Re: Re: LIVE VOTE TO OUST MCCARTHY
By metmike - Oct. 3, 2023, 5:42 p.m.
I'm glad to hear that, Jean only because I don't want to offend you or anybody, even though that is bound to happen when I give my strong opinions.
Re: Re: Re: LIVE VOTE TO OUST MCCARTHY
By metmike - Oct. 4, 2023, 10:53 a.m.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says it's a 'very sad' day after Kevin McCarthy's ousting from the speakership on 'Hannity.'
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6338346938112
Gingrich: “They should all be driven out of public life”
NEWT GINGRICH (GUEST): I think it's a very sad day because I think Kevin McCarthy is one of the most talented leaders I've ever worked with. I think that he accomplished an amazing amount for having a small majority and having to take on both the Senate and the White House. And I think this is really a tragic outcome. This was a leader who both gained seats in 2020, gained seats in 2022, increased the number of women members, increased the number of veterans, increased the number of minority members, and he had a vision for a better future.
And let's be clear here Sean, if the University of Georgia Bulldogs, who are the number one team in the country right now, if you started a game and four of the members of the offensive squad decided they were actually on the Alabama side and began tackling your own people, you'd probably get them off the field. Well, think about what we saw today. 4 percent, 4 percent decided they were so morally superior, so intellectually pure, so patriotically better, that they would side with the Democrats and, that's what they did, in order to defeat the entire Republican House Caucus.
96 percent of the Republicans voted for McCarthy, 4 percent voted against him. For my position as a longtime Republican activist, they're traitors, all eight of them should be primaried. They should all be driven out of public life, what they did was to go to the other team to cause total chaos. We ought to be focusing on Biden, we ought to be focusing on the economy, we ought to be focusing on the border. Instead you're going to get a week or ten days of the media focusing on Republican disarray. It's a astonishing destructive behavior by a handful of egocentric people who think they're superior to 96 percent of the conference.
By metmike - Oct. 5, 2023, 1:12 a.m.
"The people who raise the most money, they’re not legislatively successful," said Ray La Raja, a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts. "They’re not the workhorses in Congress. So yeah, he can tap into people’s anger. … What he’s doing when he’s not raising money, I don’t know."
https://time.com/6320479/matt-gaetz-house-speaker-mccarthy/
“He can be THEIR Speaker. Not MINE. Are you with me? Join me and demand NEW LEADERSHIP.”
As expected, the last sentence links to his campaign donation page, so he at least got the “profit” part right. He also knows his marks, errrr, audience: Said donation page prominently features a picture of Gaetz smiling on Air Force One with former President Donald Trum
Could Gaetz’s grift be any more obvious? His performative conservatism any more odious? He is soliciting funds for a planned run for governor in 2026 (a likely stepping stone to a presidential bid two years later) by posing as a MAGA champion bravely taking down the hated Establishment. Gaetz isn’t stupid, but he’s counting on Trump’s supporters to be.
Re: LIVE VOTE TO OUST MCCARTHY
By metmike - Oct. 5, 2023, 1:18 a.m.
Wait, before you go...
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Re: Re: LIVE VOTE TO OUST MCCARTHY
By metmike - Oct. 5, 2023, 7:01 a.m.
Folks,
Matt Gaetz did this intentionally as a self serving act to generate attention and funding for himself at the expense of the Republican Party and American people.
intentionally amplifying the exact same divisive, dysfunctional political mentality destroying our country and sabotaging his own party.
He is political cancer to our democracy. He is taking the Donald Trump model of success and trying to copy it, but even worse exploiting one of the weakest areas of our democracy and his party right now, the extremely small majority of his party to destroy one of the best fellow Rs speakership’s out of hatred and jealously for complete self enriching, attention getting objectives.
He is diabolical and the most scary thing of all by a wide margin is the large number of cult following MAGA Rs he has captured entirely because of their mindsets.
Make no mistake. He is using the Donald Trump model and piggybacking off of Donald Trump ….even using a picture of him and Trump when asking for money from his victims/targets. The ones donating money are his targets but every American is his victim.
Ironically, also using the Trump model, he portrays himself as an innocent victim of his own party, claiming to be fighting for the same American people that he just messed over royal by making it impossible for their political system, party and their democracy to work at the moment.
And he has the audacity to twist this into a fund raising tactic.
Send me more money so that I can destroy our democracy!
But he doesn’t call it that. He calls it “fighting for the people” and sells it as political snake oil to Trump supporters which he knows are the majority of Rs.
MM now that is lol funny right there, He is not qualified? We have survived 4 years with unqualified, unlawful, weaponized, dei'd, lied, cheated ,stole, fiased, no free speech, vax hoaxed, Russia hoaxed, lost our boarders, nearly lost a Pres candidate and a supreme court justice and who knows what else and you think Gates cannot do this much damage? Damn where is reality when we really need it.
And whether he will sit or not because of some conspiracy theory is sure is odd because he has already given up his seat in congress. Isn't that odd, seems pretty sure he wants it to me and after the disaster of the last 4 years on his worst day he will be an improvement over what we have endured.
And you guys bring Goldman as a source. Just surviving nut jobs like Goldman has been a miracle.
How could I forget. Just this example should end all. Garland and co actually attempted to put fbi spies into the Catholic church. And some people think that level of incompetence is the metric to judge Gates who has not even got the job yet. Hell a guy who is homeless, hooked on drugs but does read the constitution form time to time would of been an improvement to what we had had