CNN: 'GOP Lawmaker Blasts Kevin McCarthy in New Blistering Statement'

Source:CNN- U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (Republican, California) I'm very tempted to say Speaker of the Nuthouse, with 100 or MAGA members in the House Republican Conference, where even Representative Marjorie T. Greene is starting to look somewhat sane and responsible (but only in comparison) but I have too much respect for the office that Mr. McCarthy currently holds. Even if it's just for a very short time.

"Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) speaks to CNN after issuing a critical statement about House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as time is running out to prevent a government shutdown." 

From CNN

If you watch the first 10-20 seconds of this CNN video (that's linked just above) you'll hear Representative Mike Lawler (Republican, New York) make my entire point in just 20 seconds and what I'm arguing here. 

Representative Mike Lawler: "This is not Conservative Republicanism. This is stupidity. They don't know how to take yes for an answer. It's a clown show. If you want a stronger hand, run better candidates and win more elections.You keep running lunatics, you are going to be in this position." 

Last year at this time, then House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy already had 212 Republican seats in the House, because even though President Donald Trump lost reelection in 2020 and Republicans lost the Senate, House Republicans picked up 10 seats in that same election. Why? Because even though President Trump lost 10-15 percent of the Republican Party to either Joe Biden, or Republicans not even bothering to vote for President, those same Republican voters still voted for Congress and voted for Congressional Republicans, both for House and Senate. 

Go up 2 years later, now House Republicans just need to pick up 6 seats to win back the House and 1 seat to win back the Senate, in a mid-term election with a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress. House Republicans picked up just over the bare minimum to win back technical control of the House. Yes, we have a Republican House of Representatives right now. But they only have 222-435 seats. Which means Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Majority Leader Steve Scalise can only afford to lose 3 votes out of 435 on anything, assuming every House Democrat votes and doesn't vote for whatever partisan legislation that House Republicans want to pass by themselves. 

In a mid-term election where House Republicans could've picked up 30-40 seats in the House, with an unpopular Democratic President in Joe Biden, and an unpopular Democratic Congress, with rising interest rates and high inflation, Republicans only picked up 10 seats in the House in 2022, lost another seat in the Senate, lost two more governorships, lost more state legislatures and state legislative seats. 

So what Representative Mike Lawler is saying here, is that if Kevin McCarthy or whoever the Republican Speaker or House Republican Leader wants more power in the House and be able to govern and be able to accomplish great things, they need better candidates and to win more elections. Which means fewer MAGA members and other members of the broader American Far-Right, that's invaded the modern Republican Party. And get back to the center-right, Conservative Republicanism of Ronald Reagan. 

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