Rep. Matt Gaetz is planning to attempt to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the role this week after the House leader worked with Democrats to avoid a government shutdown on Saturday.
Rep. Matt Gaetz is planning to attempt to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the role this week after the House leader worked with Democrats to avoid a government shutdown on Saturday.
Oh, they will definitely let Republicans squirm for a few days, but nothing gets done in the House without a Speaker, and Nestor’s “dad” is right about one thing: nobody trusts Kevin.
If McCarthy had stuck to the deal he made with Biden, then it would be an entirely different story. I bet Democrats would have blocked the motion to vacate in that case. Kevin only screwed himself over by feeding the trolls on his Right. He got nothing (except less money for Ukraine), and lost any support he might have gotten from any Democrats.
I predict that Democrats will wait for a few days, and see how Republicans are organizing. If the only candidates are the nut jobs and Kevin, but no one can win that vote, they might throw Kevin a bone, but only after getting some concessions out of him (with ways to keep him honest, since nobody trusts him). But if any more centrist candidates out themselves up and get 20 or 30 R votes, I expect that guy to cut a deal with Democrats to go over the top. Then Democrats will protect that guy.
Remember, nobody trusts Kevin.
Dems support in his keeping the speakership may have been part of a deal for the funding extension.
But why would they make a deal with Kevin, when he has already reneged on a deal with Joe Biden?
If they do make a deal with Kevin, they will need to get immediate concessions, because they can’t rely on him to live up to any future part of any deal.
If they found a moderate R to deal with, though, they can restart the trust form scratch…