Actually, initial reports that I saw are that most of the House GOP (including a lot of the newcomers) are leaning toward Scalise rather than McCarthy to be Speaker.
Which I think would be a good choice. He is kind of in the same vein as Cruz and Rubio as sort of "MAGA Missing Link". Where they were/are Neo-Con types, but they have enough political intuition to see where the wind is blowing and ride it to their own power by following the waves. He has also generally been pretty good at call out the Left and the Media for their bullshit and knows better than to let his guard down around them (I am sure being shot and nearly killed by a raging Leftoid has nothing to do with that).
Good to know. Scalise I still think would have been the better choice, but McCarthy is....not terrible I guess? He is more steadfast than McConnell, but he does waffle a bit too much for my taste.
My impression of him is that he's just doing his best to balance competing factions in his caucus. He's not doing great on that front, but it's hard to imagine anyone else doing much better. He's an improvement over perennial bitch boy Paul Ryan, which is admittedly damning with faint praise. He's not actively sabotaging us like McConnell, so there's that as well.
Interesting. I haven't followed the leadership stuff too closely because I didn't think they would let the Republicans take the House. I did see that McCarthy just won the leadership election, but of course he needs a majority of the full House to become Speaker. The 31 votes against him are more than enough to sink him, but openly colluding with the Dems is a different beast than an internal Republican squabble.
Like the other comment said (and I guess my initial info was wrong or unclear on), it looks like McCarthy will be Speaker and Scalise will be Majority Leader. Like I said, not great, but it could be much worse. The House at least has less RINO's in it than the Senate, so I think them playing obstruction will be fine for the next few years.
They probably wanted Republicals to win very narrowly. Republicans get blamed for nothing getting done, they have no actual legislative power because getting all but one or two members unanimous is near impossible especially in this post-modern world of blackmail politics.
And it gives Democrats a defense for cheating, 'if we're such cheaters how come we didn't win the house?'.
The only thing Republicans really get is control of the committees, but Democrats don't care about any investigations because they'll just have the media refuse to cover it. Rand Paul getting the goods on Fauci will just be singing to the choir, nobody's going to cover it on the left.
Actually, initial reports that I saw are that most of the House GOP (including a lot of the newcomers) are leaning toward Scalise rather than McCarthy to be Speaker.
Which I think would be a good choice. He is kind of in the same vein as Cruz and Rubio as sort of "MAGA Missing Link". Where they were/are Neo-Con types, but they have enough political intuition to see where the wind is blowing and ride it to their own power by following the waves. He has also generally been pretty good at call out the Left and the Media for their bullshit and knows better than to let his guard down around them (I am sure being shot and nearly killed by a raging Leftoid has nothing to do with that).
McCarthy will be speaker. Scalise will be majority leader.
Trump and MTG are supporting McCarthy while the Freedom Caucus is trying to get Andy Biggs as speaker.
The moderate Republicans will never back Biggs so Kevin McCarthy is ending up Speaker most likely
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/kevin-mccarthy-first-hurdle-speaker-long-road-january
Good to know. Scalise I still think would have been the better choice, but McCarthy is....not terrible I guess? He is more steadfast than McConnell, but he does waffle a bit too much for my taste.
My impression of him is that he's just doing his best to balance competing factions in his caucus. He's not doing great on that front, but it's hard to imagine anyone else doing much better. He's an improvement over perennial bitch boy Paul Ryan, which is admittedly damning with faint praise. He's not actively sabotaging us like McConnell, so there's that as well.
Interesting. I haven't followed the leadership stuff too closely because I didn't think they would let the Republicans take the House. I did see that McCarthy just won the leadership election, but of course he needs a majority of the full House to become Speaker. The 31 votes against him are more than enough to sink him, but openly colluding with the Dems is a different beast than an internal Republican squabble.
Like the other comment said (and I guess my initial info was wrong or unclear on), it looks like McCarthy will be Speaker and Scalise will be Majority Leader. Like I said, not great, but it could be much worse. The House at least has less RINO's in it than the Senate, so I think them playing obstruction will be fine for the next few years.
They probably wanted Republicals to win very narrowly. Republicans get blamed for nothing getting done, they have no actual legislative power because getting all but one or two members unanimous is near impossible especially in this post-modern world of blackmail politics.
And it gives Democrats a defense for cheating, 'if we're such cheaters how come we didn't win the house?'.
The only thing Republicans really get is control of the committees, but Democrats don't care about any investigations because they'll just have the media refuse to cover it. Rand Paul getting the goods on Fauci will just be singing to the choir, nobody's going to cover it on the left.