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"You Do Not Reward Mediocrity:" In Wake of Disappointing Gains, Calls Grow for Kevin McCarthy to Step Aside and Let Someone Else Lead the HouseAnd if they want Trump to go, they should lead first by example. McCarthy and McConnell should show Trump what "taking responsibility" looks like and resign their positions as leaders of their respective caucuses. Is it time for "new leadership," "fresh blood"? I agree. So pack your bags, gentlemen! Let the fresh blood flow! But they won't, will they? Quoting The Washington Times: The House GOP's smaller-than-expected majority increased leverage for the chamber's arch-conservative House Freedom Caucus to demand concessions from Mr. McCarthy in exchange for support in his speakership bid. Every reality show contestant I've ever seen understands the creed, "I didn't come here to make friends." Why do all of these pussies think we send them to the Capitol or to state houses to make frenz with Democrats and the Democrat media? The Freedom Caucus, I hear, is not against supporting McCarthy, but they will demand a heavy price in terms of "structural reforms" aimed at returning power to individual representatives, and stripping it from the Speaker of the House himself. For various reasons, unfortunately, Democrats and then Republicans chose to abandon that bottom-up, pluralistic approach in favor of more of a winner-take-all model of governing. The House's rules were changed to give the Speaker greater sway over who became committee chairs and who sat on the Rules Committee. Majority legislators also began to rely heavily on the Speaker to fundraise for them, and to declare the party's legislative agenda. Getting a bill passed devolved into a top-down exercise led by the Speaker, his leadership team, and the Rules Committee. They would craft bills, often omnibuses, and present them to the chamber for an up or down vote. Except, with a razor-thin majority, the Speaker (whoever it is) cannot govern at all without the Freedom Caucus. By the way, Ron DeSantis was a member of the Freedom Caucus, the hardcore "MAGA"-oriented caucus of the House, before he ran for governor of Florida in 2018. I point this out because people keep trying to claim that he's really "Establishment," like he's taking on the Establishment and shipping illegal aliens to Martha's Vineyard as part of some Long Con so he can become president and then say "Got ya, Suckers! Time for Comprehensive Immigration Reform! Viva McCain!" Give me a break. He didn't have to make his life difficult and join the hated, despised Freedom Caucus. If he was a squish he could have been a part of John Boehner's squish leadership. And if he wasn't a Freedom Caucus type, they wouldn't have taken him as a member. They control their membership lists; they don't have to let someone in just because he requests membership. Correction: I was wrong; he didn't have to apply to join the Freedom Caucus, because he was a founding member. Meet the Freedom Caucus Feb. 4, 2015 The argument was over the belief that this was a paper border security bill designed to provide Border Security Theater while permitting Obama to leave the border open and grant mass amnesty.
As noted, the Republican Study Committee had been the group that was supposed to set a conservative agenda, but it was hijacked by moderates and liberals and turned into just another mouthpiece for Boeher and the neoliberal corporatist leadership. The Freedom Caucus was formed to re-create what the RSC had previously been. The RSC has served as the leading conservative caucus in the GOP conference since 1973, when it started as an informal group with just a few members. As it has grown in size -- it now has 170 members, close to three-quarters of the Republican majority -- many conservatives believe it's come to represent the more establishment wing of the party, and strayed from its original mission. The fissures in the RSC became apparent when then-RSC chairman Steve Scalise (R., La.) fired the caucus's long-time executive director for leaking information about conversations between members to outside groups that opposed a bipartisan budget deal in 2013. Scalise went on to win a race for House whip, while the fired aide, Paul Teller, went to work for Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas). Anyway, if you prefer Trump, you prefer Trump. But claiming that DeSantis is a Johnny-Come-Lately establishment liberal is just a flat-out lie. He was fighting the GOP Establishment before Trump was enmeshed in the GOP enough to even know there was a GOP Establishment to fight. | Recent Comments
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