McCarthy elected House Speaker after last-minute call from Trump to Gaetz

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California Rep. Kevin McCarthy won a late night vote to become Speaker of the House on Friday night after Donald Trump called Matt Gaetz, a source familiar with the situation confirmed to The Post Millennial.
 
Gaetz was leading the charge to oppose McCarthy along with Rep Lauren Boebert. Reportedly, Gaetz held influence over the last four holdouts Biggs, Crane, Good and Rosenthal.
 


 
This after McCarthy made major concessions to the 20 GOP holdouts who spent the week vocally opposing his leadership. Those concessions, however, were not as key as the head of the MAGA movement insisting its members stop rejecting the victory of a GOP-led House.
 


 
The final vote saw the hold-outs Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, Andy Biggs, Crane, Good and Rosenthal not stand in the way of McCarthy’s leadership.
 
This after a vote earlier on Friday saw the flip of 14 in the GOP who had been consistently voting against his speakership.
 
Florida’s freshman Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna posted some of the concessions made by McCarthy. She had offered her vote for McCarthy on Friday, making a note in the House of the successful negotiations between the Trump-backed speaker hopeful from California and the MAGA contingent.
 


 
These concessions include: allowing a single congressman to offer a motion to vacate the Speaker’s chair, the creation of a Church-style committee, allowing a vote on term limits, single-subject bills as opposed to the expansive bills that include masses of pork spending that is entirely off-topic from the bill being proposed, such as adding congressmen’s per projects to defense funding bills, a plan for the Texas border, a balanced budget amendment, ending all emergency Covid measures and funding, and allowing members to have 72 hours to read a bill.
 


 
McCarthy reportedly agreed to Rep. Thomas Massie at the head of the new Church Committee.
 
The Church Committee, convened in 1975, “investigated and identified a wide range of intelligence abuses by federal agencies, including the CIA, FBI, Internal Revenue Service, and National Security Agency. In the course of their work, investigators identified programs that had never before been known to the American public, including NSA’s Projects SHAMROCK and MINARET, programs which monitored wire communications to and from the United States and shared some of that data with other intelligence agencies. Committee staff researched the FBI’s long-running program of ‘covert action designed to disrupt and discredit the activities of groups and individuals deemed a threat to the social order,’ known as COINTELPRO. The FBI included among the program’s many targets organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the anti-Vietnam War movement, and individuals such as Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as local, state, and federal elected officials.

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Trump, leading our country, once again.

Good to see.

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When I eventually learned the nature of the concessions demanded, I am proud that they held out and got the agreement. However, all this could have been worked out as soon as it was clear the Republicans had the majority. But, the point is that Republicans are unified in what their goals are and they are for the support of the US taxpayer.

The best thing is, finally, the corrupt alcoholic Pelosi is out of power. The monumental liar Schiff is kicked out of his chairmanship. Republicans can demand answers to actual questions, not simply promote propaganda. What will be interesting to see is how often the Democrats abuse the recall option Pelosi the drunk denied the House.

As it turns out, the primary trigger of all the chaos and rage was the passage of that obscene $1.7 trillion waste, pork and graft bill the Senate dumped on the House with one day to consider. That is the whole plan, to load a $1.7 TRILLION spending bill with garbage and no time to debate or examine it. That was the same trick gin-guzzling Pelosi pulled with the COVID aid, withholding it until idiot Biden was fraudulently put into the White House so the door to theft could be swung wide open.

Republicans care about the nation; Democrats care about lining their pockets. Democrats would never agree to such rules; it would only hinder their corruption.

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When I eventually learned the nature of the concessions demanded, I am proud that they held out and got the agreement. However, all this could have been worked out as soon as it was clear the Republicans had the majority. But, the point is that Republicans are unified in what their goals are and they are for the support of the US taxpayer.

Those are my sentiments too. The concessions should have been part of the platform from the beginning. Hopefully the process will make McCarthy a strong and effective Speaker. It definitely put him and the others on notice that there will be no more free rides. It’s produce or be gone. The 21 holdouts are nothing compared to what he is going to have to deal with when dealing with the Communists on the other side of the aisle. It’s time to get ruthless.

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Hearings on the four year coup, including the Jan 6 incident and the IC involvement would be great. Indictments against the principals could help.

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As Conservatives Shift From Opposing McCarthy to Holding His Feet to the Fire, Here are Five Promises He Needs to Keep

Defund Biden’s 87,000 New IRA AgentsHold the Swamp AccountableInvestigate China’s Role in Destroying AmericaChurch Committee 2.0More Power to the Freedom Caucus

Of all the promises made in public and private, this is the most important one for McCarthy to keep. It will truly separate him from Paul Ryan and John Boehner who actively battled conservatives in their caucus more than they battled Democrats. Here are some of the promises, according to Mark Pellin at Headline USA:

Among the key concessions won by the Freedom Caucus:

Any one member can call for a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair, lowered from a required five members; McCarthy-aligned super PACs agreed to not meddle in open Republican primaries in safe seats

Hold votes on bills to include a balanced budget amendment, congressional term limits and border security; Pair spending cuts with any efforts to raise the national debt; Move appropriations bills individually, scuttling omnibus spending sprees

Appoint more Freedom Caucus members to committees, including the powerful House Rules Committee

Cap discretionary spending at fiscal 2022 levels; Allow at least 72 hours to review bills before they come to floor; Changes to make it easier for members offer more amendments on the House floor

Create an investigative committee to probe the “weaponization” of the federal government; Restore the Holman rule, which can be used to reduce the salary of government official

Aside from McCarthy’s reported embrace of the negotiated concessions, McCarthy’s acceptance speech after clutching the gavel played to the Republican conservative base.

Conspiracy BonusFor those of us with more of a conspiratorial mindset, our expectations of Kevin McCarthy go beyond keeping promises and properly empowering conservatives. We need to watch his moves to see when he’s doing the bidding of the globalist elite cabal. It’s going to happen whether he’s a useful idiot, a middle manager, or one of the chief bad guys like Barack Obama or Mitch McConnell.

Now that he’s in power we can get a much better idea of where he lands on the “Powers-That-Be Scale.” If I were guessing, he acts like a middle manager similar to John Boehner, but he could be higher up on the scale like Paul Ryan. We won’t know for sure until we see his actions. Even in his role in the shadows we’ve seen enough to know that he is, at the very least, a useful idiot. If that’s the case then there’s an opportunity to use him for some good just as the elites use him for lots of bad.

As the McCarthy era begins, we need to keep all of these promises in mind and remind everyone if McCarthy fails to fulfill any of them. And he will. That’s just in his nature.

As Conservatives Shift From Opposing McCarthy to Holding His Feet to the Fire, Here are Five Promises He Needs to Keep (noqreport.com)

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