Chip Roy emerges as key GOP agitator in U.S. House speaker fight
In a historic move, three Texas Republicans, including Roy, are among a group voting against Kevin McCarthy, their party’s leading choice for U.S. House Speaker
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In a historic move, three Texas Republicans, including Roy, are among a group voting against Kevin McCarthy, their party’s leading choice for U.S. House Speaker
And then also, he's going to have to manage a crazy town over in the house of representatives. he's going to figure out if there's anything. that mccarthy can get across the finish line that would be palatable to americans. it is going to be tough because right now, mccarthy is on bended knee to crazy town. marjorie taylor greene and all the others are the ones who can make him speaker. he can't be speaker without them. so you think boehner had trouble with the freedom caucus. you think paul ryan had trouble with the right-wing, you haven't seen anything until you see what is going to happen i...
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has yet to secure enough GOP votes to win the speaker's gavel when the new Congress convenes on Jan. 3, prompting some Republican lawmakers to start eyeing his deputy, Steve Scalise, as a last-minute substitute.
If McCarthy wins, he might find that his job is not dissimilar to trying to herd a flock of angry geese.
There is blame from the democrats. but ultimately this is a con man. and i think we have to put the blame where it belongs. which is on him. there is a famous case involving a new york congresswoman that basically says that unless the fraud goes to some qualification, you're not, the words he said that he was 25 and he's only 23, the final qualifying, he's going to get seated. there is not a legal mechanism for getting him to give up his seat. they can put pressure on him, they could then vote to expel him, which a normal party would do. which an honest party would do. but this republican part...