proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

I don't think Gaetz has ever played chess, nor understand how to even play checkers. The acting speaker will be Patrick McHenry.

The GOP-led House on Tuesday voted in favor of removing Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy as House speaker, marking the first time in U.S. history the leader of the chamber has been removed in such a process.

The unofficial vote tally was 216-210.

"The office of speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant," Arkansas GOP Rep. Steve Womack, who was presiding over the proceedings, said after the vote.

The effort to oust McCarthy was led by Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz, who on Monday night filed procedural paperwork known as a "Motion to Vacate."

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) is now serving as speaker pro tempore.

McCarthy, a California Republican, early Tuesday morning allow the vote, considerably before the two-day deadline.

The motion to vacate is an up or down vote of yea, nay or present.

All Democrats voted in favor of removing McCarthy along with seven conservative Republicans.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), regarded as a moderate Republican from a purple district, also voted to remove.

Former Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was among those who did not vote.

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) made the motion to table the effort but it failed.

Gaetz argued his case from the Democratic side of the House floor. He said he tried to speak from a podium on the other side of the chamber but wasn't able to do so ahead of the debate.

"I think this represents the ripping off of the Band-Aid. That's what we need to do right now," Gaetz said afterward, arguing the dysfunction of the House has been going on before McCarthy became speaker in January.

On the House floor, during a roughly 30-minute debate before the vote, Gaetz said McCarthy did not follow through on putting up 12 "single subject" appropriations bills on the floor for votes.

He argued that the way to curb wasteful spending and get the debt under control was to pass 12 separate bills funding federal departments. Gaetz hasn't said who he supports for speaker instead of McCarthy.

Other Republicans supporting McCarthy said the 45-day continuing resolution that passed over the weekend to avoid a shutdown gives the House time to pass the rest of the appropriations bills. They also noted that the Democrats currently run the Senate and the White House.

Ahead of the vote, conservatives Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.) said he planned to vote against the motion to vacate the chair. Conservative Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) wrote on X that he would vote in favor of the motion.

Former President Trump weighed in on the drama that was unfolded on the House floor.

"Why is it that Republicans are always fighting among themselves, why aren’t they fighting the Radical Left Democrats who are destroying our Country?" Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social with the voting underway.

Because Democrats are Marxists who unite behind their leader because they can't think for themselves. Republicans, on the other hand, favor smaller, less government and are not interested in wielding absolute power.
However, they'll need to pick someone.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

"...how many of you would sit down and cut a deal with progressive Marxist Democrats in the House? They are economic socialists who reject everything we believe in and Rep Matt Gaetz voted with them. On Friday, Rep Byron Donalds put up a bill to cut 30% of all Federal agencies and it would have secured the border with mandates. There was a strategy developed between Conservatives in the House and the Senate. The plan was to get it passed in the House, then the Senate could use it to have leverage over Sen Mitch McConnell. But the bill was killed by Gaetz, who voted with Democrats and the progressive caucus. Now the government is open for 45 days and nothing is cut and the spending continues. President Biden, Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, and Hakeem Jeffries got their way because they ran circles around Gaetz." -Mark Levin

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

With all due respect to Mark Levin, et. al. ......

"I’m disappointed in his conservative media detractors, some of whom are people that I fully expected to back him.

Very eye-opening.

Can any of them make a case for omnibus over individual spending bills?

Can any of them claim McCarthy has stuck to the terms of the deal that he agreed to in order to become Speaker?

Can any of them say it’s a total coincidence that the ethics complaint, long-shelved, popped back up now?

Can any of them justify pulling Ukraine funding in the CR, only to work a deal for continued aid in the shadows with Chuck Schumer?

These are some of the principal reasons why Kevin McCarthy is no longer speaker. He was elected in January, and had 9 months to do the tough work on the various appropriation bills. Failure in leadership has consequences.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Yes, yes, yes, and yes.

With all due respect, these phony RINOs who are not conservative had a chance to vote on a CR that supported the military and border security while cutting the budget. They are the reason McCarthy had to strike another deal. These Republicans are enabling Schumer and the Democrat Party to keep spending in an unsustainable manner. You can't always get what you want, so you have to pick your battles wisely to win the war or you just might find you get what you need to survive. Gaetz will become a pariah, not a martyr. He already is because he has failed to show leadership and will continue to do so...pick your poison.

The legislative process is about representation through deliberation, not about clean, predictable outcomes. It gets messy, but this is why they’re there.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

So, what you are saying is that the Debt doesn't matter? If it did you wouldn't take the position you currently have.

8 RINOs have done great damage to the Republican Party and this country by removing Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House because now Democrats feel like they have the wind at their back. House Freedom Caucus is made up of the most conservative members in the House of Representatives, and because six of them, along with 2 RINOs, voted to remove Kevin McCarthy he is no longer the Speaker. We could very easily lose the House now because many of these Republicans, especially those in swing districts, are in jeopardy of losing re-election because the strongest border bill in modern American history was killed on the House floor. Rep Hakeem Jeffries, the Marxists in the Democrat party, and the media have won because Kevin McCarthy will not run again to be Speaker of the House. There is no civil war within the Republican Party; there are 8 anarchists who want to bring down McCarthy no matter what the cost, and in the end, Rep Matt Gaetz got what he wanted while the country lost. -Mark Levin

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Just heard that Dems Liz Cheney as Speaker of the House... I hope and pray they're joking!..

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

I don't see that happening. But it's possible, and frightening. If Hakeem orders his party to vote for her and a few of these RINOs that voted to out McCarthy join them. Why would any of them want to take the position, other than Jeffries of Chaney? Let's put Gaetz in there and make it impossible for him to do anything. He has such a secure district he doesn't have to worry about his re-election but I hope that changes. That A-Hole just screwed everything that conservatives have been trying to achieve to stop Biden and his Marxist regime of Democraps.

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry should caucus all Republicans on an agreement to discipline any Republican who votes for a Democrat as the new house speaker? Any Republican who would vote for a Democrat as House Speaker would be a traitor to his own party. McHenry should let it be know that he would recommend that any such House member would be removed from all committee assignments. Additionally, any such member should be subject to a recall election, and removed from office. It is inconceivable to believe that the Republican House members cannot find an acceptable candidate among it's 200+ members.

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R46786.pdf

Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

We know who the 8 RINOs are that are traitors and they should be targeted for recall.