Rep. Matt Gaetz on Monday moved to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the top House leadership post, offering a motion to vacate the chair on the House floor – a rare procedural move that can be used to force a vote to remove the speaker.
It’s not yet clear how the challenge to McCarthy will play out, but the effort represents the most serious threat to his speakership to date. A floor vote to oust McCarthy would require a majority to succeed.
“Bring it on,” the California Republican wrote on X shortly after the motion. Gaetz responded to the post with one of his own, writing, “Just did.”
The move marks a major escalation in tensions for a House GOP conference that has been mired in in-fighting and could be thrown into chaos if McCarthy is pushed out of the speakership. It comes as a bloc of House conservatives have continued to thwart McCarthy, voting against key priorities of GOP leadership and repeatedly throwing up roadblocks to the speaker’s agenda.
Bickering like children and they think they can hold impeachment hearings on Biden? They can’t even function as a single political party much less navigate complexities like fact finding, legal investigative process, and case building.
Gaetz has shown that the Republican party has gone so deep into political paranoia that they fear even each other and must resort to extreme measures like a motion to vacate to “test” ideological purity to one another. The GOP is crumbling but in its complete failure, it will provide a larger path for more extreme megalomaniac personas to invade what the GOP once was.
All this does is ensure that the GOP further descends into madness.
I hope you’re right because if they remain united, we are deeply fucked.
As if they cared about those things. 🙄