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Matt Gaetz says he'll resign if Kevin McCarthy strikes speaker deal with Democrats
Please make this deal happen
Link to tweet
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/5/matt-gaetz-says-hell-resign-if-kevin-mccarthy-stri/
If Democrats want to get Rep.-elect Matt Gaetz out of Congress, he offered them a path Thursday night: Back a Republican for House speaker.
In a feisty interview on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Mr. Gaetz, Florida Republican, said he’d resign from Congress if the Democrats essentially gained co-control of the chamber as a result of he and a group of about 20 conservatives continuing to refuse to back Kevin McCarthy’s speakership bid.
Host Laura Ingraham, in an earlier segment of the show, said there are three possible endgames to the gridlock that has produced 11 inconclusive votes for House speaker over the last three days: (1) conservatives claim victory with Mr. McCarthy’s concessions and support him for speaker, (2) Mr. McCarthy withdraws in favor of a different Republican who could get 218 votes, or (3) that moderate or establishment Republicans strike a deal with Democrats under which Mr. McCarthy or some other Republican “gets to be called ‘Speaker’ but essentially both parties share power.”
In a feisty interview on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Mr. Gaetz, Florida Republican, said he’d resign from Congress if the Democrats essentially gained co-control of the chamber as a result of he and a group of about 20 conservatives continuing to refuse to back Kevin McCarthy’s speakership bid.
Host Laura Ingraham, in an earlier segment of the show, said there are three possible endgames to the gridlock that has produced 11 inconclusive votes for House speaker over the last three days: (1) conservatives claim victory with Mr. McCarthy’s concessions and support him for speaker, (2) Mr. McCarthy withdraws in favor of a different Republican who could get 218 votes, or (3) that moderate or establishment Republicans strike a deal with Democrats under which Mr. McCarthy or some other Republican “gets to be called ‘Speaker’ but essentially both parties share power.”
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Tea party & freedom caucus members very seldom compromise, it's always "My way or the highway" with them,
that said it's time Kevin McCarthy wakes up and smells the roses because they smell like shit and he'll never
become Speaker of the House.
On the other hand I hope Kevin never backs away from his dream and 6 moderate repugs get fed up with
the circus and vote for Hakeem Jeffries, I can dream too!
OR 
Which do you prefer? 
