{"id":55939,"date":"2023-01-07T11:49:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T19:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55939"},"modified":"2023-01-11T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T19:00:07","slug":"house-squeaker-kevin-mccarthy-thanks-donald-trump-for-being-all-in-on-making-him-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55939","title":{"rendered":"House Squeaker Kevin McCarthy Thanks Donald Trump for Being ‘All In’ on Making Him Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifteen votes. That’s how many attempts it took Kevin McCarthy to attain his longtime goal of becoming the Speaker of the House of Representatives. It is the eighth most ballots cast in American history, and the most since before the Civil War.<\/p>\n

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McCarthy’s victory came only after he bargained away a great deal of the power that a Speaker traditionally has held. The beneficiaries of that desperate deal-making were the fringiest of the Republican Party’s right wing, who will now try to hold the House – and the nation – hostage to their uber-conservative commands.<\/p>\n

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With that, McCarthy will be a weaker Speaker than any in modern times. One who only managed to squeak through with less than a majority of member votes due to the peculiarities of the process wherein those voting “present”<\/em> aren’t counted. That lowers the threshold for a majority to only those who voted for someone by name.<\/p>\n

Following the fifteenth vote, McCarthy spoke to reporters in the Capitol that was the scene of a violent insurrection two years ago to the day. He didn’t bother to mention that. However, he did give thanks to the person most responsible for those anti-America riots, the twice-impeached, former reality TV game show host, Donald Trump. McCarthy gushed…<\/p>\n

“I do want to especially thank [former] president Trump. I don\u2019t think anyone should doubt his influence. He was with me from the beginning. Somebody wrote the doubt of whether he was there, and he was all in. He would call me and he would call others. And he really was – I was just talking to him tonight – helping get those final votes. What he\u2019s really saying really for the party and the country is we have to come together.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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McCarthy: \u201cI do want to especially thank Pres Trump. I don\u2019t think anyone should doubt his influence. He was with me from the beginning. He was all in. What he\u2019s really saying for the party and the country is we have to come together.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/KWEFQQAHkn<\/a><\/p>\n

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n