At last, a politician stands up to the establishment uniparty.
Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) is getting bad reviews.
“Gaetz has very few friends in the conference,” said his fellow Florida Rep. Carlos Gimenez. “Gaetz maybe has a couple of friends in the delegation. But I’m not one of them.” And Gimenez spoke for many other House Republicans.
Gaetz led a successful and unprecedented effort to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California), and there appears to be a broad consensus that Gaetz has really stepped in it now, and made things even worse than they were before. Democrats, who voted unanimously for Gaetz’s motion to remove McCarthy as speaker of the House, are chortling over Republican confusion and disunity. Meanwhile, even patriots who are sympathetic to Gaetz are saying that he has jeopardized the Republicans’ slim majority in the House, risked handing the leadership over to the Democrats, and proceeded without a plan: Gaetz himself is not a candidate, and no one seems to be in agreement over who should follow McCarthy into the speaker’s chair.
When acting speaker Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) took the chair, he banged the gavel down with petulant force, signaling a distaste for the whole affair that he never manifested as millions of unvetted migrants entered the country, or as the national debt and inflation skyrocketed, or as the Biden regime weaponized the “justice” system to persecute its political enemies. McHenry made it clear: what angered him was not any of that, but the removal of his friend McCarthy.
So the whole thing was a disaster, no? Gaetz should have left well enough alone, right? Wrong. In fact, Gaetz has won a rare victory for the American people, and should be congratulated and thanked accordingly.
The removal of McCarthy from the speaker’s chair was historic not only because it has never happened before. For the first time ever, the American people struck back against the ruling oligarchy, and made it clear that they would no longer stand for the politics-as-usual that has brought the nation to this period of deep crisis.
For years now, indeed, for decades now, and with very few exceptions, the far Left has set political policy in the United States. On occasion, patriots have refused to go along, but almost every time their opposition collapsed into capitulation, with a few minor details adjusted but the larger principles of the Left’s initiative left intact.
This capitulationism has been the hallmark of the Republican Party since at very least 1952, when Dwight D. Eisenhower, the first Republican to be elected to the presidency in twenty years, made it clear that he would not make any effort to roll back Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, which set the nation on the road to socialism and the ever-expanding federal government that grows more intrusive and authoritarian by the day. Instead, Republicans would stand for the march toward socialism to be pursued a bit more slowly, a bit more responsibly, a bit more carefully, and that was all.
Seventy years later, McCarthy pushed four frivolous, big government spending bills through the House, and according to CBS News, “said a continuing resolution would be needed to avoid a shutdown.” Gaetz responded: “A vote for a continuing resolution is a vote to continue the Green New Deal, a vote to continue inflationary spending, and the most troubling of fashions, a vote for a continuing resolution is a vote to continue the election interference of Jack Smith. We told you how to use the power of the purse: individual, single-subject spending bills that would allow us to have specific review, programmatic analysis and that would allow us to zero out the salaries of the bureaucrats who have broken bad, targeted President Trump or cut sweetheart deals for Hunter Biden.”
Gaetz added: “Speaker McCarthy made an agreement with House conservatives in January. And, since then, he has been in brazen, repeated material breach of that agreement.” And so now he is no longer speaker of the House. McCarthy apparently agreed in January not to join the Democrats in continued out-of-control government spending, and to stand aggressively against the Democrats’ weaponization and politicization of the justice system. Instead, he gave us more of the same: government of the Washington establishment, by the Washington establishment, and for the Washington establishment.
McCarthy’s ouster is a signal to whichever Republican may follow him as speaker: patriotic Americans are fed up. The time for conciliation, compromise, and appeasement are over. The enemies of America have captured the Democrat Party and made the Republicans into controlled opposition. It’s time for some genuine opposition to the sinister agenda of these corruptocrats. Matt Gaetz has made a mighty effort to restore the voice of the American people in their own government. For that, every American owes him a debt of gratitude.
Hoi Polloi says
I agree completely. Year after year, election season after election season, these friends of one another live openly as enemies of the citizenry. Gaetz now has many friends among the people and yet DC still doesn’t comprehend that we outnumber them and are disgusted by them.
Also, thanks for calling McHenry petulant and noting his self-interested, we’re all friends here voting record.
PRCS says
“Year after year, election season after election season, these friends of one another live openly as enemies of the citizenry. ”
Well put.
The “my/our friends” formality has given us a 33+ trillion $ debt.
Thank you, Representative Gaetz, for throwing a wrench in the machine.
Hoi Polloi says
Pretty astounding how openly they responded with the mafioso friends vs. foes bit.
Westman says
“For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.” James 1:24
“Mr. Smith Goes To Washington”, finally has a real-life analog. Goetz has called out corruption, wild deficit spending, no border control, withstood boos, and forced the Republican Party house members to look in the mirror for an update on what sort of uniparty, money-grubbing, law-as-political-weapon, deep-state, oligarch-controlled politicians they have become.
The Deep State is in the process of destroying a former President because he tried reform without being a member of the corrupt club – and in the process the Deep State has reduced the US image to a new Bananna Republic and amused other corrupt governments. Now it has another reformer rising, this time from the inside. There will be more demands for reform, the ball is just beginning to roll.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’m thrilled at what Gaetz pulled off. He should be the head of the Judiciary Committee now if Jim Jordan gets elevated to speaker, and in 2026, he should run for governor of Florida: they need someone as great as DeSantis has been in that role
Essentially, if the GOP can’t use the one part of government that it has in its hand – the House – then it doesn’t deserve to be in power. It’s time that the arm-twisting whips of the GOP actually cracked them against those “moderates” living in purple districts, & confront them on which part of the Dem agenda – politicization of law enforcement, endless debt, record high deficits that outweigh the interest on the debt – which of these do they support? And threaten to primary them!
One thing I will grant McHenry though – using his brief stint in getting Pelosi evicted from her office in the Capitol: she does not need 2 offices.
As far as the uniparty goes, Gaetz’ actions have resulted in the House actually being more in sync w/ the base: in the past, even Liz Cheney wasn’t voted out until Trump himself weighed in against her. We’re finally at a tipping point where the Speaker will have to be someone from the Freedom Caucus, and that’s a start
This needs to continue into the Senate. McConnell needs to be replaced: right now, he’s the counter-argument to the likes of Fetterman, as well as Biden (no longer counting Feinstein), but w/ someone similar to Jordan in the Senate. I’d like a primary challenge to Cornyn whenever he’s next up, and hope that Rick Scott can become speaker. But in the Senate, we need to start primarying more senators, starting w/ the 17 who voted alongside McConnell for continuing resolutions and endless support to Ukraine. Hopefully, we can get a better RNC chair than Ronna Romney McDaniels: my choice would be Bannon, who can set up the task of primarying such RINOs until the Senate is filled w/ the likes of the Hawleys, Vances, Pauls, Cruz’ & so on
In the meantime, on the Dem side, I’d like to see RFK supporters get more assertive, & battle both the woke communists and their own establishment for control of their party. Failing that, I’d like the Dems to go down in flames, & let someone else – maybe the Libertarians – take their place
Westman says
Agreed, Infidel.
We need GOP congressmen who will fight for the return and preservation of honorable government.
If the Dems get permanent control, the US will become bankrupt in every conceivable way. People who think government can solve all their problems usually expect they will create a socialist government with the softness of Trotsky and end up dying under the hammer of a Stalin.
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Yes, I’d like to see Jim Jordan as Speaker of the House – and Matt Gaetz as head of the House Judiciary Committee.
Excellent post.
William Kemmler says
“. . . individual, single-subject spending bills that would allow us to have specific review, programmatic analysis and that would allow us to zero out the salaries of the bureaucrats who have broken bad, targeted President Trump or cut sweetheart deals for Hunter Biden.””
The House of Representatives constitutionally controls the government’s purse and shouldn’t be worried about what the Senate may think of the spending bills sent over from the House. If the Senate democrats don’t like what they House sends over as single-subject spending bills then it should be on the Senate to reject those bills and be responsible for any government quasi-shutdown that occurs.
it’s the only way that Republicans will be able to reduce the size and influence of the Administrative Branch of government.
somehistory says
One is not likely to hear via the msm, that the People for the People of the People by the People, like what Mr. Gaetz did.
One is only likely to hear that the rulers don’t much care for what he did, except the gloating dems.
tgusa says
What type of idiots appoint a California republican to be the speaker of the House? Couldn’t they find a republican from a republican state to do the job instead of a guy who’s party is a feckless minority in his own state? I never understood it and I used to live in California. SoCal, Huntington Beach to be exact. Huntington Beach cant really be considered part of democrat majority California. Lots of rebels there that oppose Ca democrat politics, always have. The primary reason California’s 47 district now has a dem as a representative is because of the influx of Oriental Asians in to Irvine (fleeing to Irvine after the LA Rodney King riots). Don’t let anyone fool you, Asians are not the conservatives some will tell you they are. There are two possibilities for that historic change, vote fraud or oriental Asians have no problem with the destructive democrat party freak show.
tgusa says
My old friends in Huntington Beach beat the crap out of antifa when they dared to show up there. “GO HOME NAZIS” White Lives Matter protesters clash with antifa in Huntington Beach.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
tgusa
This one has been analyzed by breakdown. Chinese Americans tend to be Dems, despite (or maybe b’cos of) coming from Communist China, while Vietnamese tend to be pro GOP. Similarly, the South Koreans I’ve seen tend to be Dems, while Indians seem to split 2:1 GOP. I do think that within the Indian group, more Hindus (as opposed to HINOs), who previously had reservations about Christians, are now more open to the GOP due to both the insanity on the Left, as well as the emergence of people like Vivek on the national scene (previously, the perception used to be that only converts to Christianity like Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal could aspire to a position in leadership)
Not sure where Thai, Filipino and others are on this divide
Linde B. says
Thank you for this superb article, Mr. Robert Spencer. I am glad that RINO McCarthy is not the Speaker anymore.
Aum says
Gaetz well done – hope more join him.
James Lincoln says
Congressman Matt Gaetz has more guts in his little pinky than a whole big roomful of RINOs.
and…
Congressman Jim Jordan would be my first pick for Speaker of the House.
Pearl says
Yes! I agree wholeheartedly! Matt Gaetz is a true American and a man of vision and fortitude. With 10 more like him this country could accomplish a great deal in the effort to restore constitutional government.