Kevin McCarthy Becomes 'First Speaker Ever to be Ousted From Job in House Vote' [UPDATED]

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Oct. 03, 2023

History made!





From The AP, "McCarthy becomes the first speaker ever to be ousted from the job in a House vote":
Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history that was forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and threw the House and its Republican leadership into chaos.

McCarthy's chief rival, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, forced the vote on the "motion to vacate," drawing together more than a handful of conservative Republican critics of the speaker and many Democrats who say he is unworthy of leadership.

Next steps are uncertain, but there is no obvious successor to lead the House Republican majority.

Stillness fell as the presiding officer gaveled the vote closed, 216-210, saying the office of the speaker "is hereby declared vacant."
McCarthy broke many of the promises he made to the MAGA-wing of the party to secure the speakership in the first place, including his promise to release all the J6 tapes.


McCarthy is a California liberal who has been controlled opposition his entire life, so I'm thrilled with his ouster. That said, there's a good chance his replacement will be even worse (just as he was worse than Paul Ryan before him).

Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, an ally of McCarthy's, has been arguing that things will only get worse.



Speculation is rampant McCarthy's ouster could jeopardize funding to Ukraine.



From the AP, "Biden tries to reassure allies of continued US support for Ukraine after Congress drops aid request":
The outlook for the future of Ukraine aid has been murky at best after Biden on Saturday signed a bill to fund U.S. government operations through mid-November that ignored the billions in additional funds for Kyiv requested by Biden in late August. The president, as well as congressional Democratic leaders, had stressed after the vote that they had expected then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to follow through on his public commitment to Ukraine aid even as Republican resistance to it continues.

Biden went as far as to imply that he had a deal with McCarthy to move Ukraine aid once the government was funded, although the speaker has denied that is the case and the White House has refused to elaborate on the president's remarks. Meanwhile, McCarthy signaled over the weekend that he supports linking new Ukraine funding to security improvements at the U.S. border with Mexico. Kirby said Tuesday that the White House supports both issues on their own merits but not tied together.
In related news, Newt Gingrich, who sold out Republicans during his time in Congress, is calling for Matt Gaetz to be expelled.


"The effort to expel Matt Gaetz for being a destructive, irresponsible anti-Republican may be a step too far," Gingrich said in a post Sunday on X. "Expulsion from the House requires a two thirds vote. However expelling him from the House Republican Conference and eliminating all his committee assignments and all resources other than those an individual member is entitled to would be a rational response to his suicidal efforts to cripple the House GOP."

UPDATE:


The megacorporations which profited the most off the GOP's tax cuts spent the bounty they received on getting Trump out of office.

Meanwhile, the Abraham Accords were a scam worked out by the Israel lobby which consisted of bribing Arab kings with billions of US taxpayer dollars and high-tech US weaponry to normalize relations with Israel.

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