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AZLD4Candidate

(5,558 posts)
Sun Nov 20, 2022, 09:12 PM Nov 2022

Kevin McCarthy wants to block three Democrats from committees if he becomes House speaker

Source: USA Today VIA AOL

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy served further notice Sunday that his potential speakership will be politically volatile, saying he will try to keep three high-profile Democrats off of certain committees.

Democrats said McCarthy will do whatever his right wing wants him to do because he still lacks the votes to land the speaker's job.

In stumping for the position, McCarthy has targeted Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; and Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., members of the House Intelligence Committee.

McCarthy and other Republicans have for months said these members' past statements and actions regarding issues like Israel, China and Russia should keep them off these committees.

"I'll keep that promise" to remove them, McCarthy told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures."

Read more: https://www.aol.com/kevin-mccarthy-wants-block-three-173905931.html



It's about revenge and retribution, not governing.
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Kevin McCarthy wants to block three Democrats from committees if he becomes House speaker (Original Post) AZLD4Candidate Nov 2022 OP
McCarthy bdamomma Nov 2022 #1
Why do you suppose that Herr Miller is not in the Hague being done for crimes against Humanity??? Ford_Prefect Nov 2022 #17
When I read 3auld6phart Nov 2022 #2
Nailed it...it's only about revenge and retribution...nothing to do with good governance PortTack Nov 2022 #3
In standing committees it's not up to him mahina Nov 2022 #4
What, exactly, is the procedure Mr.Bill Nov 2022 #6
I'd like to know, too! TY! nt Cha Nov 2022 #8
Majority vote of the full House FBaggins Nov 2022 #9
Thanks. Mr.Bill Nov 2022 #11
He only needs a vote for Omar FBaggins Nov 2022 #13
The House Intelligence Committee isn't a standing committee FBaggins Nov 2022 #7
"It's about revenge and retribution, not governing." That's what the next two years will be about. Evolve Dammit Nov 2022 #5
And Kevin will applauded this as Marjorie Taylor Greene VOMITS pro-Russian talking points republianmushroom Nov 2022 #10
When ya don't know how to lead, govern or manage money BOSSHOG Nov 2022 #12
So much for improving the lives of ordinary Americans... BlueIdaho Nov 2022 #14
They care about the citizens are heart AZLD4Candidate Nov 2022 #15
It's not just about them, it's about the whole mafia style of rule of men they've adopted. A man ancianita Nov 2022 #16
IMO Kevin and the whole MAGA Mafia are taking on way more than they can deliver. Ford_Prefect Nov 2022 #18
We never should have removed MTG and Boebert Polybius Nov 2022 #19
I think they would have done this anyway moniss Nov 2022 #20
They would have done it anyway orangecrush Nov 2022 #23
Only three!? Klondike Kat Nov 2022 #21
It will be LeftInTX Nov 2022 #27
Thanks, New York orangecrush Nov 2022 #22
They'll have to change the name of the Intelligence Committee then Bayard Nov 2022 #24
Since Dems still have control of committees for another couple of months ... ificandream Nov 2022 #25
WHAAAAT??? YoshidaYui Nov 2022 #26

bdamomma

(63,652 posts)
1. McCarthy
Sun Nov 20, 2022, 09:17 PM
Nov 2022

is doing what he is being told to do, by Q members like MTG and getting coached by Stephen Miller.

McCarthy has sold his soul to the devils.

Ford_Prefect

(7,817 posts)
17. Why do you suppose that Herr Miller is not in the Hague being done for crimes against Humanity???
Mon Nov 21, 2022, 01:45 AM
Nov 2022

Why does he walk free and influence Congress?

Surely his contributions to TLG's policies were actually in writing?

mahina

(17,502 posts)
4. In standing committees it's not up to him
Sun Nov 20, 2022, 09:21 PM
Nov 2022

He’s obviously tossing them to the lions to soothe his base.

Those three have more to add to committees than the whole pitiful clown show on the right

FBaggins

(26,695 posts)
9. Majority vote of the full House
Sun Nov 20, 2022, 10:40 PM
Nov 2022

With such a narrow majority, they would have to be nearly unanimous as a caucus to do it. They won't get 11 from our side the way we did with MTG last year.

Mr.Bill

(24,103 posts)
11. Thanks.
Sun Nov 20, 2022, 10:45 PM
Nov 2022

I agree he would have difficulty getting the votes. Especially to deny committee membership to the people he is talking about. I actually think the group of cats he is herding will be impossible to unify for a vote on what day of the week it is. As it is it appears he is having to promise some people the moon just to get elected Speaker.

FBaggins

(26,695 posts)
13. He only needs a vote for Omar
Sun Nov 20, 2022, 10:49 PM
Nov 2022

He can unilaterally remove people from Intelligence.

There were quite a few Democrats who were critical of Omar's comments re: Israel. We're going to lose a few members on each committee anyway... so perhaps the caucus will dodge the issue by putting her somewhere else.

FBaggins

(26,695 posts)
7. The House Intelligence Committee isn't a standing committee
Sun Nov 20, 2022, 09:40 PM
Nov 2022

It's permanent... but still a "select" committee.

republianmushroom

(13,050 posts)
10. And Kevin will applauded this as Marjorie Taylor Greene VOMITS pro-Russian talking points
Sun Nov 20, 2022, 10:42 PM
Nov 2022

Going to be a lot of posting.

BOSSHOG

(36,852 posts)
12. When ya don't know how to lead, govern or manage money
Sun Nov 20, 2022, 10:47 PM
Nov 2022

You step to the microphone and prove it. Dems will have Kevin babbling by June “threatening” to resign and thinking about going home to his district where crime is as high as Lauren Boebert on a Rocky Mountain love fest with her penis wielding husband. Is Margie divorced yet? Is moe
brooks still kicking ass and taking names? Is gym Jordan longing for the days when he showered with college boys? Has Mike pence hired anyone to find his spine? Has bob barr won an academy award yet?

Is Hakeem Jeffries waiting patiently in the wings?

Ok Kevin and the clowns, it’s almost time to rock and roll. I’m feeling good about the next Congress.

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
14. So much for improving the lives of ordinary Americans...
Sun Nov 20, 2022, 11:09 PM
Nov 2022

The GQP has no idea how to govern with the best interests of the citizens at heart.

AZLD4Candidate

(5,558 posts)
15. They care about the citizens are heart
Sun Nov 20, 2022, 11:22 PM
Nov 2022

Trust fund babies
Investor class
Ruling class
billionaire class
religious hustler class

The "rank and file" are there to be kept completely ignorant and totally brainwashed to do their master's biddings.

Remember my sig line.

ancianita

(35,812 posts)
16. It's not just about them, it's about the whole mafia style of rule of men they've adopted. A man
Mon Nov 21, 2022, 01:16 AM
Nov 2022

was their party platform. That's the basis of it all. It's not about governing. It's about favors and payback. It's about macho exercise of autocratic power, how they're now paying back their corporate owner/donors as loyal, useful tools to keep the tax money transfer and favors trickling up to their owner/donors. It's their corporate treadmill of keeping their jobs for the bosses more than doing their jobs for any losers back home.

It's mafia theater scripted for literal madmen.

Ford_Prefect

(7,817 posts)
18. IMO Kevin and the whole MAGA Mafia are taking on way more than they can deliver.
Mon Nov 21, 2022, 01:51 AM
Nov 2022

I don't think the majority of their voters actually want a nothing doing Congress. Imagine how they'll look the next time a hurricane, flood, or other natural disaster strikes their home districts. With no genuine plans for constructive governing and no partnership to depend on for legislative action what will they do?

Will their financial patrons bail their districts out? Will their Dark Money lords arrange an alignment of the planets in their favor?

Polybius

(15,238 posts)
19. We never should have removed MTG and Boebert
Mon Nov 21, 2022, 03:19 AM
Nov 2022

Republicans are vengeful, and weren't going to be the minority Party for long in the House. I knew that they would pull this one they got back in power.

moniss

(3,949 posts)
20. I think they would have done this anyway
Mon Nov 21, 2022, 06:00 AM
Nov 2022

and most assuredly have killed the filibuster if they had taken the Senate. Rest assured the next time they get the Presidency and the Senate at the same time the filibuster is gone.

ificandream

(9,193 posts)
25. Since Dems still have control of committees for another couple of months ...
Mon Nov 21, 2022, 03:14 PM
Nov 2022

... they ought to make life VERY difficult for the MAGA idiots around them.

YoshidaYui

(41,759 posts)
26. WHAAAAT???
Mon Nov 21, 2022, 04:31 PM
Nov 2022

NO A O C ??? I THOUGHT THIS WAS ALL ABOUT REVENGE,... HEY FUCK you Republicans, the Department of Justice will be coming for most of your SORRY ASSES.

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