OPINION: The House Leadership Impasse

Sub­mit­ted by George McClel­lan

The cur­rent cri­sis in the GOP has been a long time com­ing. Repub­li­cans who clas­si­fy them­selves as either Neo-cons, Rinos or MAG­As, cant agree on who should occu­py the chair of Speak­er of the House except to agree it wont be Kevin McCarthy. Its not a prob­lem that the GOP lacks a leader, its that the GOP lacks lead­er­ship. Theyve licked the Demo­c­rat boots for so long theyve lost the lead­er­ship skills nec­es­sary to do what their con­stituents want them to do, be Amer­i­cans. Con­ser­v­a­tive are always left out in the cold. This grow­ing schism in the ranks of GOP lead­er­ship rep­re­sent noth­ing more than the begin­ning of the need to pull the GOP out of the cor­rup­tion of the Uni-Par­ty and New World Order schemes. It has all the appear­ance of the irre­sistible object col­lid­ing with the unmov­able mass and Democ­rats are sali­vat­ing in glee at the appar­ent GOP dis­func­tion. They should­nt!

Im against label­ing folks into cat­e­gories that may apply like Nazis, right wing ter­ror­ists, deniers, racists and etc. I dont see myself com­port­ing to any of those cat­e­gories but I do see myself as anti-com­mu­nist. Does that make me an ene­my of the state? Well, yes, if its Democ­rats run­ning the state. Under no cir­cum­stance do I say that Kevin McCarthy is a com­mu­nist. I dont believe he is but he is not a con­ser­v­a­tive as we under­stand the term but a pro­fes­sion­al politi­cian who enjoys his role in gov­ern­ment. The burn­ing desire to become Speak­er has already led him to sev­en failed votes for that job. Seems like he aint gonna get it!

Im not alone! It appears twen­ty GOP con­gress­men also react like pro Amer­i­cans in their oppo­si­tion to ele­vat­ing Kevin McCarthy to Speak­er. They know what we all know, McCarthy has a long record in the GOPs House lead­er­ship play­ing the cor­rupt polit­i­cal games nec­es­sary as not to be labeled as an out­sider, but a team play­er (aka: boot lick­ing). The ques­tion is: whose team? The Deep State per­haps? The New World Order, World Eco­nom­ic Forum, Amer­i­ca’s Demo­c­rat Social­ist par­ty? Whose exact­ly? The polit­i­cal waters turn murky here. All pro­fes­sion­al politi­cians need mon­ey includ­ing Kevin McCarthy but McCarthy is no slouch here. Apart from his own mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar Con­gres­sion­al Lead­er­ship Fund, sup­pos­ed­ly to be used to sup­port GOP can­di­dates, we learn he dis­pensed funds only to incum­ben­t’s of the RiNO cut or new can­di­dates who have pledged their troth for the mon­ey, to vote as a RiNO or as direct­ed by the lead­er­ship. On top of that, the Fed­er­al Elec­tions Com­mis­sion (FEC) report­ed that Kevin McCarthy accept­ed a pid­dly $2 mil­lion dol­lar’s for his PAC from Ryan Salame, the Co-Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer of the now defunct FTX bit­coin fraud. Its a mat­ter of pub­lic record. So, is that job of Speak­er so impor­tant that only he can ful­fill it as a Repub­li­can? If so, what is McCarthy going to con­cede to get it? It has­nt hap­pen yet and I heard none of the con­ces­sions he did make are in writ­ing. Its a politi­cians job to make promis­es and not keep em!

Sources close to McCarthy said his cam­paign team agreed to a pro­pos­al offered by the con­ser­v­a­tive Club for Growth that could win over enough of the twen­ty anti McCarthy House Repub­li­cans to ele­vate him to Speak­er or cer­tain­ly enough votes to give him momen­tum. The Club for Growth pro­pos­al, on the face of it, could have been debil­i­tat­ing to McCarthy’s future plans. It was pro­posed that McCarthy should agree that his Con­gres­sion­al Lead­er­ship Fund PAC be “pro­hib­it­ed from spend­ing mon­ey or pro­vid­ing grants to any super PAC to engage in open Repub­li­can pri­maries or against any Repub­li­can incum­bent. That would be a hard agree­ment for McCarthy to make. He could­nt buy favors then, could he?

Politi­cians need rules but they make em up as they go along. Har­ry Reid was good at that, always mov­ing the goal posts to suit the democ­rats needs. I dont know if this rule has ever been changed, altered or amend­ed but the Speak­er does­nt need to be an elect­ed Rep­re­sen­ta­tive. So, how about vot­ing Don­ald Trump as Speak­er of the House and get on with the busi­ness of Mak­ing Amer­i­ca Great Again. It would dri­ve Democ­rats absolute­ly crazy. Would­nt that be a hoot?

Remem­ber, free­dom is the goal, the Con­sti­tu­tion is the way. Now, go get em! (05Jan23)