McCarthy Fails to Stop Intra-Party Feud

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McCarthy Fails to Stop Intra-Party Feud

November 30, 2021 at 11:25 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 58 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/11/30/mccarthy-fails-to-stop-intra-party-feud/

"SNIP....

“House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tried — without success — Tuesday night to end an ugly battle between two of his GOP freshmen,” Politico reports.

“The California Republican implored Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Nancy Mace (R-SC), in separate private meetings, to stop attacking one another after their back-and-forth online spat dragged on for hours earlier Tuesday.”

CNN: “Emerging from her meeting, Greene told CNN that both she and former President Donald Trump would back a primary challenge to Mace in 2022.”

.....SNIP"

[Deuxcents]

1. His silence allowed this to get out of hand

That’s not leadership so.. what’s next, Kevin?

[riversedge]

4. McCarthy is a weak wimp who bows to Trump.

[global1]

2. Maybe There Is Someway To Pit McCarthy Against Tr**p...

McCarthy most likely knows where a lot of skeletons Tr**p has in his closet. If there was some way that they could engage in a feud - I think that they would take each other out.

McCarthy wants to be the Speaker - Tr**p is potentially getting in McCarthy's way.

There's talk that perhaps even Tr**p would go after being Speaker. (I don't know how that's possible - but I've heard that kind of talk).

So if McCarthy and Tr**p get into battle - maybe they could take each other out.

Just a thought.

I hear that MGT takes orders from Tr**p. Maybe the feud could somehow involve MGT in the middle.

[OnDoutside]

3. Ultimately McCarthy is too weak, so weak that he's being bullied

by a POS like her. Some have suggested that she'll be speaker if the GOP win the midterms, and unless someone stops her gallop in the next few months, that could happen.

[Dorian Gray]

6. Lol

if she became speaker, she would be right that she IS the base of the Republican party.

It would be disastrous for them.

And I don't think Jim Jordan would let her leap over him.

[OnDoutside]

18. The problem is that she's low class trash and just doesn't give a

rat's behind about anyone in the GOP. Knowing no shame even for Washington, will allow her to shatter even the plunging depths that the likes of McCarthy would baulk at. I'd be surprised if Gym could hold her back when she clearly has the ear of Trump.

[Dorian Gray]

21. Agree with that

but I think they'll do everything they can to destroy her. (While making it seem like it comes from the Democrats.)

[Zorro]

8. McCarthy is MTG's poodle

That's a meme to run with.

[ananda]

10. That is the scariest part of not having good voting laws.

nt

[tanyev]

11. Better chance is Greene getting so much attention Trump gets jealous.

Nobody is allowed to shine brighter than God Emperor Dumpster Fire.

[Hortensis]

5. :). Good.

This sucked me in, and I checked to see what was happening. Mace is the one we want to hold Boebert's head under the mud, but good guy is definitely relative, and I'm just left grateful "AOC" (name slung as a mud ball at some point) declined to leap in. And happy that this kind of thing might threaten Republican dreams for the midterms.

There are no moderate Republicans in the house, but supposedly being worried the party's openly racist extremism might threaten their reelection is what passes for "moderate" these days. "Moderates" want McCarthy to tone it down or someone might be forced to break obscurity and issue a statement. Mother Jones's take: "The rest of the GOP caucus has spent the last five years desperately trying not to do the right thing, and they certainly aren’t interested in speaking out publicly now."

From Slate's description of the uncontrolled backbencher mud fight:

What was Greene’s biggest missed opportunity here?

Well, as you saw in this series of tweets, Mace parried early with a classic dunk template: the spelling correction, in this case of Greene writing the possessive your instead of the contraction you’re. Mace made this her pinned tweet. But then, later in the feud, Mace left herself critically vulnerable: She used principle instead of principal.

Greene had 14 minutes to destroy Mace for this spelling error. She wasted them, as Mace was able to correct herself first.

Is this still a developing situation?

We guess? There will be more tweets, more characters, more calls, more statements, more bigotry. There will always be more. There has never not been more.

Should I continue to follow this developing situation, or would my time be better spent doing absolutely anything else? Should I perform community service, or clean up around the house, do my job, take care of my kids, watch the Beatles thing, stare at the wall, eat dinner, etc., or continue to follow this—a bunch of House members taking shots at one another on Twitter?

You should definitely keep following this.

[lindysalsagal]

7. The fact that the gqp put him in charge tells you they're swirling the bowl

No one worth anything wants that job. No one has for years. Boehner danced and sang his way out the door. It's basically the sheep herder among the feral hyenas.

[Scrivener7]

9. It has been reported that almost all of the vaccine misinformation swirling around the

world today came from 78 twitter accounts.

We should have a warehouse with 78 people using this incident to foment division among republiQans in the same way the 78 bots created a worldwide misinformation campaign.

But I bet we don't.

[Klaralven]

12. It has always seemed odd that a Republican from California is leader

[GB_RN]

13. Qevin McQarthy Can't Lead His Way Out Of A Wet Paper Bag...

Much less lead his caucus of fighting cats. Meanwhile, the media narrative is STILL going to be: "Disorganized Democrats, fighting amongst themselves, unable to accomplish their goals", while ignoring the actual legislative accomplishments.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

14. Oh no, she and IT will not back Mace in primaries!? That's all they got ever...and

the reliable social media Qterrorists they unleash, ofc without consequence.

[Hotler]

15. Good! Let them fight among themselves, we should encourage it. nt

[Harker]

16. He's failed to stop an out of control "president" and

an insurrection, too, so there's a pattern.

[smb]

17. What A Pathetic Worm! nt

[louis-t]

19. Fox News reports: "Dems in disarray!"

[themaguffin]

20. A tough leader actually could have made some progress with the cult. Most in the GOP, can't see that

and are weak.

[Takket]

22. chuck todd will somehow blame "both sides" for this too