Kevin McCarthy’s campaign to be Speaker means no enemies to the right — or the left or the center — of a Republican caucus like no other, reports bencjacobs
could do in 2023. His sales pitch includes old clichés and a measured embrace of Donald Trump who was mentioned only twice and praised for foreign policy. Then he closes with what he thinks will be an appealing image to the crowd — Nancy Pelosi handing him the Speaker’s gavel next year.
The last time there was a Republican House and a Democratic president, Washington was paralyzed with a constant series of showdowns over whether to keep the federal government open and the U.S. Treasury from defaulting on its debts. At the time, McCarthy served as the House Republican whip, tasked to count votes and keep members in line. In 2011, Republican opposition to raising the debt ceiling in exchange for major cuts in federal spending led to Standard & Poor’s downgrading the U.S.
Newt Gingrich suggested that House Republicans could say “we want the border controlled before we give you a [continuing resolution]’, I think the country would accept that” and called such a fight a win-win for McCarthy. Either Biden yields, Gingrich said, allowing Republicans “pass a lot of reforms that led people to re-elect our majority or Biden vetoes a lot which leads to a sweeping catastrophic defeat of the Democratic Party in 2024.
finding the job of managing their conference too impossible or having the conference oust them, as happened to Gingrich. As McCarthy himself acknowledged, “Republicans are very good at taking out their Republican Speakers.”
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