McCarthy: But I do want to thank especially President Trump. I don’t think anybody should doubt his influence. pic.twitter.com/UJdVKQ5VRA
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 7, 2023
I'd sooner give credit for the rumored "blackmail" threats than Trump for the eventual success of Kevin McCarthy's bid for Speaker, largely because Trump supported him from the beginning, and it went 15 rounds. If anything, McCarthy is doing the obligatory thing by thanking Trump because at least he didn't get sandbagged for being a loser and then abandoned, which could have just as easily happened.
Also, giving it a bit of a think, the show-y-ass "opposition" of the 20 or so holdouts that dragged this thing out probably didn't get them much more than they would have gotten anyway. Weird investigations into the politization of the FBI is right in line with the "Twitter files" crap and protecting his fellow Republicans by trying to interfere in potential investigations regarding them seems like something he'd be doing anyway--just from thinking back to his actions regarding the 1/6 Committee. I don't even think giving his bomb-throwers leave to discuss blowing up the economy via a debt default was ever off the table for him. Look back at 2011, 2018, etc. Like government shut-downs, it's another way Republicans can demonstrate that they aren't here to do good government and titillate their base that they are doing something rebellious by giving them nothing, and actually taking away--defunding things.
I think what we just witnessed was a bit of theater. It doesn't miss me that McCarthy got his successful vote two years to the day that the delayed vote certification of Biden's election occurred.
They are a sorry lot, and for all his hollow, cravenness, McCarthy earned his right to be the leader of these people. And he will wring all the joy from it the "honor" deserves.
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There's a reason those 20 holdouts wanted to permit a single member to call for the removal of the Speaker. I fully expect we'll be treated to that particular sort of drama, hopefully many times. Maybe ol' Kevin will survive that wash and repeat cycle but I'm good with the waste of time and the public reminder of the fecklessness of these seditionists clowns.
He's made himself a hostage--basically said he's good with functioning under a gun. If this lot is as unfocused and bitter as I hope they are, they deploy the "Operation Kill Kevin" maneuver early enough that she can view their clusterfuckery again as they try to put forward another "willing" speaker candidate.
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