Rep. Tim Burchett is considering supporting a possible effort to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy if McCarthy makes a deal with Democrats as a way out of this week’s impending government shutdown.
“That would be something I would look strongly at, ma’am, if we do away with our duty that we said we’re going to do,” Burchett (R-Tenn.) told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked if he would support removing McCarthy as speaker.
Burchett’s comments come as Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has used the shutdown as a launching pad to call for McCarthy’s removal as speaker. Overall, McCarthy has faced attacks from fellow Republicans accusing him of failing to lead his party, which holds a slim majority in the House, through the chaos.
The House last week failed to pass legislation to fund the government amid Republican infighting with hardliners who have promised to object to any stopgap measure. McCarthy wants to deliver a GOP opening bid to the Democratic Senate while also holding back a rebellion by far-right members of his party.
An idea without a plan. Reps have no replacement in mind to take up the Speaker position, making this threat even dumber than forcing a shutdown in the first place.
They don’t care. Their aim is to destroy the government, not do their jobs.
I don’t think they have an aim beyond “don’t do anything the Dems or the moderate Republicans want.”
You only need one person to call for the vote to oust, so he doesn’t matter there.
You need a majority to vote him out. There’s already a majority to vote him out if you count rebellious Republicans and all Democrats, and there is a clear majority to keep him if the Democrats choose to keep him. So he doesn’t matter there.
Structurally, as long as 5 Republicans are against McCarthy, calling a vote to oust just lets Democrats pick if they want McCarthy or whoever the 5 pick. An incremental one person on the team with the 5 is meaningless.
Well the dems will bail out whoever it is that has the best offer.
Which basically means that if they pull the trigger they cede even more concessions to the dems.
So, I’d like to think they’re not that dumb, but then, they like to prove me wrong.
I’m starting to suspect far right Republicans aren’t serious about policy.
Turns out that they spent so much time obstructing that when they actually have even a modicum of power, they just obstruct themselves.
“How dare he attempt to govern!”
Was there a shutdown under trump? Because I hope the democrats takes some time to highlight wich party keeps shutting the country down like children throwing a tantrum.
Just the longest in US history, brought on by funding disputes over his stupid wall
TBF, the Republicans had control of the Presidency, House, and Senate when that started…
Definite point!
So you’re saying it was all Mexico’s fault! /s
Oh yeah, all Mexico had to do was PAY for the damn thing 😁
Several iirc
GOP always did promise to show us how useless and unproductive the government could truly be if we’d just let them. The house has been giving a great Iive demo lately.
Good. Let these traitor asscunts eat each other.
do you want hyper partisan politic, because this how you get hyper partisan politics
Who does this tim Allen looking motherfucker think he is?
Republican civil war let’s fucking go
Cooperate with those that are my neighbors, my enemies? NEVER! This country must be and remain in a civil war! I will. It be happy until neighbors kill neighbors, until fathers kill their sons, until daughters kill their mothers! Hate hate, hate!
And then I’ll rule over the ashes and it will be peaceful.