Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-gaetz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Gaetz</a> (R-FL) is pushing for the House to get involved in a lawsuit filed by first son <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a>&#8216;s lawyers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-sues-irs-over-whistleblower-leaks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">against</a> the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/whistleblower" target="_blank" rel="noopener">whistleblower</a> disclosures.
A <a href="https://gaetz.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/gaetz.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Johnson%20IRS%20letter%20FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> Gaetz sent on Wednesday urges Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) to task the House Office of General Counsel to intervene in the case to defend the IRS agents who raised concerns about the federal inquiry into Biden.
&#8220;Due to federal law, this is the only available action of Hunter Biden and the Democrats to silence the I.R.S. whistleblowers who have so bravely come forward with details of Hunter Biden’s tax fraud,&#8221; Gaetz wrote.
&#8220;The interests of the House of Representatives and the legal rights of our whistleblowers are not being zealously defended by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), who is defending the lawsuit on behalf of the I.R.S.,&#8221; he added.
Biden&#8217;s lawsuit, filed in September, accused IRS investigators <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-fbi-agent-says-irs-whistleblower-was-right-bidens-were-tipped-off-during-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler</a> of working to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/hunter-biden-files-lawsuit-irs-alleging-unlawful-release-tax-informati-rcna105557" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;embarrass and inflict harm&#8221;</a> on him with the disclosure of confidential taxpayer information and violating the law.
ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-moves-dismiss-lawsuit-filed-hunter-biden-irs/story?id=106425515" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in January the Justice Department moved to dismiss the case. Shapley&#8217;s legal team <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/hunter-biden-sues-irs-whistleblowers-criticized-doj-probe/story?id=102112021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> improper disclosures beyond what is allowed in statutes governing whistleblowers.
&#8220;We should be doing everything we can to protect these brave whistleblowers,&#8221; Gaetz said in his letter to Johnson. He cited <a href="https://cha.house.gov/_cache/files/5/3/5361f9f8-24bc-4fbc-ac97-3d79fd689602/1F09ADA16E45C9E7B67F147DCF176D95.118-rules-01102023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House rules</a> and <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/2/5571" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Code</a> concerning the House Office of General Counsel getting involved in litigation.
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Gaetz requested the speaker &#8220;task the House Office of General Counsel with moving to intervene in Biden v. IRS to protect the prerogatives of the House of Representatives and to protect the rights of all Americans to make protected disclosures to Congress.&#8221;
Attached to his letter, Gaetz said, was the complaint filed by Biden, as well as the partial motion to dismiss of the DOJ.
&#8220;A cursory read of these materials should make clear to the House Office of General Counsel that the rights of the House are implicated in this case and not being adequately represented to the Court by the DOJ,&#8221; Gaetz said.
&#8220;To give but [one] example among many: the complaint takes an extremely narrow read of Internal Revenue Code § 6103’s whistleblower provisions, a read which DOJ does not contest,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;The House clearly has an interest in the broadest possible read of the subject matter that an individual may properly disclose to committees of Congress,&#8221; Gaetz concluded.
Biden is facing criminal indictments that branched out of the investigation led by special counsel David Weiss rocked by the whistleblower allegations last year. He has pleaded not guilty to federal gun and tax charges.
The first son also participated in a closed-door <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-eyes-public-hearing-with-hunter-biden-to-address-discrepancies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deposition</a> with House investigators last month as part of an impeachment inquiry into his father, President Joe Biden, but <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/impeachment-witness-tony-bobulinski-claims-hunter-and-james-biden-perjured-themselves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declined to show up</a> for a public hearing last week.

Rep. Matt Gaetz

Matt Gaetz Seeks House Intervention To ‘Protect’ Whistleblowers In Hunter Biden’s IRS Lawsuit

Matt Gaetz Seeks House Intervention To 'Protect' Whistleblowers In Hunter Biden's IRS Lawsuit

Congress

Hunter Biden

Matt Gaetz

Mike Johnson

Politics

Whistleblowers

A federal judge on Friday greenlit legal action from GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia against two California cities over rallies canceled in each in 2021.
Gaetz and Greene sued the cities of Anaheim and Riverside last year after multiple venues repeatedly canceled reservations by the lawmakers to hold America First rallies. The Republican lawmakers allege that the city officials pressured the venues to cancel in response to leftist backlash and that the cancellations violate free speech protections.
“Plaintiffs adequately allege that the Municipal Defendants delegated to their respective agents the authority to cancel the rally (and/or ratified the relevant conduct after the fact) and that the event cancellations were expressly predicated on viewpoint discrimination,” U.S. District Judge Hernan Vera, a Biden appointee, wrote in a 22-page <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.891532/gov.uscourts.cacd.891532.95.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion</a>.
Vera’s ruling is a procedural win for Gaetz and Greene, though not a total one. The lawmakers included in their complaint accusations against leftist groups, such as the NAACP, that Gaetz and Greene said illegally conspired with Anaheim and Riverside officials to stop the rallies. The judge rebuked the lawmakers for a “complete lack of any alleged facts to support a ‘meeting of the minds’ as required for a conspiracy claim.”
“Here, the Complaint — even charitably construed with all reasonable inferences drawn in Plaintiffs’ favor — is utterly devoid of any specifics plausibly alleging such an agreement,” Vera wrote.
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“The gravamen of Plaintiffs’ claims against the Nonprofit Defendants is, both legally and literally, a conspiracy theory that relies purely on conjecture,” the judge continued. “And without an unlawful conspiracy, all that is left to aver against the Nonprofit Defendants are the unremarkable allegations that they exercised their own First Amendment rights to lobby for the cancellation of the event. That is protected.”
In 2021, Gaetz and Greene were involved in booking three different venues across Orange and Riverside counties. Each venue <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-14/reps-matt-gaetz-and-marjorie-taylor-greene-file-lawsuit-alleging-free-speech-violations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">canceled</a> in succession as activists’ complaints inundated the venues in opposition to the rallies. After the last venue canceled within 24 hours of the scheduled event, Gaetz and Greene elected to hold a “peaceful protest against communism” outside Riverside City Hall.
Gaetz and Greene are represented by a legal team that includes John Eastman, a controversial lawyer who advised President Donald Trump near the end of his term. Eastman was indicted along with Trump in the Georgia election case for allegedly trying to overturn the results of the 2020 race in the state.

Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene

Judge Greenlights Gaetz, Greene Lawsuit Against California Cities Over Canceled ‘America First’ Rallies

California

Courts

First Amendment

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) blames the current House GOP dysfunction on Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida.
Gingrich appeared on Fox News on Friday with host Laura Ingraham to bemoan the chaos that has fractured the House Republican caucus and which threatens to oust the second Republican speaker since October. He said trouble within the caucus has contributed to a series of early departures within the GOP that has made its slight majority even smaller.
“We shouldn’t underestimate how bad what Matt Gaetz did was for the whole system. He unleashed the demons. He went after somebody who had raised $480 million, had gained seats for three elections in a row. He drove Kevin McCarthy out of office,” Gingrich said, according to <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/newt-gingrich-blames-matt-gaetz-after-mtgs-motion-to-vacate-johnson-he-unleashed-the-demons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mediaite</a>. “From that point on, it has been a disaster.”
Gaetz led a revolt of a small group of Republican House members against former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in October, ousting the Republican leader from the speaker’s chair. The rebellion threw the House GOP into chaos for a short time, after which Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana was voted to take up the speaker’s gavel. At the time, Gaetz accused McCarthy of cutting secret deals with Democrats and undermining House conservatives.
“I don’t blame [House Speaker Mike Johnson.] I think Speaker Johnson has a hand that’s virtually impossible to play. And that’s where I think some of the people just make it worse,” Gingrich said.
Gingrich went on to say that the disarray among House Republicans emphasizes the need to elect former President Donald Trump back to the White House in November and give Trump and Republicans a large majority to govern in Congress.
“When I was speaker, I had a lot more ability than Johnson did to run the house, because I had a big enough majority, you could have five or 10 people who were crazy and you can still govern,” Gingrich said. “[Johnson] doesn’t have a one-vote majority. The fact is there are eight or 10 or 12 people who are going to get up every morning voting no. … So, he really has no majority at all.”
“You have to decide. Sooner or later you’re going to realize the bills have been worse since McCarthy was gone. The Democrats are in greater control. The hard-liners on the right have done nothing except make it worse. The Freedom Caucus right now has been a disaster in public policy terms. If you think your job in life is to grandstand and complain while the other team runs over you, they’re doing a great job,” the former speaker added.
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Johnson is now facing threats of removal from within the House GOP caucus after he pushed through the House a $1.2 trillion omnibus spending package last week over dissent from House conservatives. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Friday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-files-motion-to-oust-mike-johnson-as-house-speaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a motion to remove the speaker’s gavel from Johnson over his handling of the legislation. Greene <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-files-warning-160647542.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> her resolution was “more of a warning than a pink slip.”
Gaetz defended Johnson last week as House conservatives voiced discontent with the speaker.
“If we vacated this speaker, we’d end up with a Democrat,” Gaetz <a href="https://apnews.com/article/speaker-johnson-motion-vacate-marjorie-taylor-greene-3461bd8b95e718e178132ac16f36562a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a>. “When I vacated the last one, I made a promise to the country that we would not end up with a Democrat speaker. &#8230; I couldn’t make that promise again today.”

Matt Gaetz ‘Unleashed The Demons’ In GOP When He ‘Drove Kevin McCarthy Out,’ Newt Gingrich Says

Newt Gingrich

Washington D.C.

Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-gaetz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Gaetz</a> (R-FL) is asking the independent watchdog of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate special counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jack-smith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jack Smith</a> over whether the prosecutor is allowing the 2024 election to impact the timeline of his case against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>.
In a Wednesday <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/Jack-Smith-OIG.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire, Gaetz raises concerns to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz about Smith <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-624/293970/20231221105032440_United%20States%20v.%20Trump_CBJ%20Reply.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pressing the Supreme Court</a> to fast-track consideration of Trump&#8217;s presidential immunity claim to clear the way for a trial. The congressman draws attention to <a href="https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-85000-protection-government-integrity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a section of the Justice Manual</a> that says federal prosecutors &#8220;may never select the timing of any action, including investigative steps, criminal charges, or statements, for the purpose of affecting any election, or for the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party.&#8221;
The congressman says the memo is &#8220;quite clear&#8221; and opined that Smith&#8217;s filing to the Supreme Court in December &#8220;tacitly concedes&#8221; a violation of DOJ rules, as Trump is running another campaign for the White House in this year&#8217;s election. &#8220;Specifically, that reply brief repeatedly urges &#8216;rapid&#8217; review of the federal prosecution of Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump, and the incredible &#8216;public importance&#8217; of the case, without once explicitly stating why the rapidity is warranted, or what the public importance is,&#8221; Gaetz says.
&#8220;Were there a legitimate, non-election related purpose for this request, these attorneys, who have filed in appeals courts many times, would have listed such. Since charges have been filed and the defendant himself is taking a legal position on timing and lodging various appeals, that justification cannot, for example, be the rights of the defendant under the Constitution or Speedy Trial Act,&#8221; Gaetz continues. &#8220;So, there can be only one conclusion: Special Counsel Jack Smith sees it as of paramount importance to hold a trial before the November 2024 election, but he is unable to explicitly say so, as such a justification is in violation of Departmental policy and law.&#8221;
Trump has pleaded not guilty in the federal case in which he is accused of unlawfully plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. His lawyers <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/05/trump-election-case-immunity-motion-00120225" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> to dismiss the case in October by arguing that Trump’s actions were “within the heartland” of his “official duties.” The ensuing battle over the immunity claim led to the presiding judge&#8217;s plan for a March 4 trial <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/08/28/judge-sets-march-4-trial-date-for-trumps-federal-election-interference-case/?sh=50ff4b547905" target="_blank" rel="noopener">start date</a> to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/02/donald-trump-federal-trial-delayed/72448799007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fall by the wayside</a>.
The Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-deals-blow-to-jack-smith-refuses-to-quickly-take-up-trump-immunity-claim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected</a> Smith&#8217;s request to quickly take up the immunity question in December, leaving the issue to first be considered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. After a panel of the appeals court ruled against the immunity claim, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-takes-up-trump-immunity-claim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a> to take up the issue last month and has scheduled an oral argument date <a href="https://twitter.com/AnnaBower/status/1765450613066715420" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for April 25</a>.
Gaetz told The Daily Wire that Smith&#8217;s investigation is clearly a &#8220;partisan exercise.&#8221;
&#8220;The witch hunt against President Trump by Attorney General Garland and Special Counsel Smith is a partisan exercise, and the American people know it,&#8221; Gaetz said on Wednesday. &#8220;The actions of the Special Counsel Smith to speed up the trial against President Trump violate the DOJ’s rules and the law. His public comments and his office’s briefs before the Supreme Court demonstrate that he has no reason for his actions other than to unlawfully interfere in the 2024 presidential election.&#8221;
Trump is facing three other criminal cases, including another one led by Smith over the former president’s handling of classified documents, as well as civil litigation. Trump has broadly denied any wrongdoing and has argued that politically motivated prosecutors are conducting a “witch hunt” against him. Trump recently <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/02/23/trump-classified-documents-presidential-immunity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> presidential immunity in a request to get the documents case dismissed.
Gaetz, a lawyer, lays out his argument in the letter for why it&#8217;s legally improper to carry out the case during &#8220;election season.&#8221;
&#8220;It is indisputable that we are already in an election season. However, the Justice Manual does not set hard dates,&#8221; Gaetz says in his letter. &#8220;It is the core of prohibited conduct that a purpose (not the purpose) of any official action of a prosecutor be to affect any election: it may be morally correct that the American people should see swift resolution of this case, perhaps with dropped charges or a Trump acquittal before the November 2024 Presidential election, but wielding Executive Branch authority in the service of this is a violation of law. Prosecutors must be held to a higher standard.&#8221;
After accusing the DOJ of failing to comply with oversight requests from Congress, Gaetz goes on to implore Horowitz to give his &#8220;immediate attention into compliance of the Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith with Departmental regulations, particularly related to investigatory and prosecutorial actions during an election season.&#8221;
&#8220;The precise scope of an investigation may be as narrow as interviewing the Special Counsel, and determining that he has a lawful purpose in seeking the expediting of his case against Donald Trump, and determining that he did not have the purpose of keying a trial date to the election calendar. Or it may be wider,&#8221; the letter concludes. &#8220;Please alert my office of any developments in this matter.&#8221;

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Gaetz Calls On DOJ Inspector General To Investigate Jack Smith

Matt Gaetz Asks DOJ Inspector General To Investigate Jack Smith

2024 Election

Donald Trump

Jack Smith

U.S.

The House Ethics Committee is reportedly expanding its investigation into Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-gaetz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Gaetz</a> (R-FL) as it has reached out to multiple new witnesses.
ABC News reported that the Republican-led Committee has reached out to &#8220;individuals who have ties to the initial Justice Department investigation into Gaetz.&#8221;
The Committee was focusing on possible lobbying violations by Gaetz, the report said, but after its contact with individuals tied to the DOJ&#8217;s criminal investigation, the Committee appears to be looking into the &#8220;sex trafficking investigation into the Florida congressman,&#8221; the report said.
Gaetz responded to ABC News&#8217; report in a statement: &#8220;It&#8217;s great to see the Ethics Committee has interests beyond trading stocks. They seem to be quite the unusual whales.&#8221;
The Committee reopened its probe into Gaetz in July 2023 after the DOJ asked it to delay its initial probe into the congressman. The DOJ&#8217;s probe ended without no charges against Gaetz.
&#8220;I was cleared by the Department of Justice and the FBI, who looked into my life for years,&#8221; Gaetz said over the summer. &#8220;Now, I believe that the House Ethics Committee is trying to weaponize their process against me because every once in a while up here I&#8217;m a rabble-rouser and I don&#8217;t go along to get along. And right now, I&#8217;m forcing this body to have deal with our debt and our spending.&#8221;
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&#8220;I think all the days in Congress, there are probably in the seven years I&#8217;ve been in Congress there have only been tens of days when I haven&#8217;t been under one form of ethics investigation or another,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never been found to have violated any ethical laws. I won&#8217;t be found to have violated them in this matter either.&#8221;

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House Ethics Committee Expands Investigation Into Matt Gaetz: Report

Ethics

U.S. House of Representatives

It was just a few days ago that a Republican lawmaker from South Carolina named Nancy Mace <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MattWalshBlog/videos/im-embarrassed-by-this-moment-from-nancy-mace/253191271140537/">invoked</a> the invented concept of &#8220;white privilege&#8221; in a congressional hearing. She was supposedly trying to put Hunter Biden in his place by saying that he&#8217;s the beneficiary of &#8220;white privilege,&#8221; because he can ignore subpoenas without suffering any consequences. But as I explained on the show at the time, all Nancy Mace did was legitimize the Left&#8217;s framing, which is fundamentally anti-white and fraudulent. Hunter Biden does not benefit from his skin color. He benefits from the fact he&#8217;s the son of the president of the United States. Everyone knows that.
So all Nancy Mace accomplished was reinforcing a false narrative that demonizes millions of white people, and accuses them of having unearned privilege simply because they were born with a certain skin color. She also derailed the entire hearing by allowing Democrats like AOC to harp on their own personal definitions of &#8220;white privilege.&#8221;
As counterproductive and idiotic as Nancy Mace&#8217;s stunt was, it does need to be said that it wasn&#8217;t that surprising. Nancy Mace isn&#8217;t exactly a staunch, far-right conservative. She raised money for Liz Cheney, came out in support of the so-called &#8220;LGBTQ movement,&#8221; and voted to hold former Trump adviser Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress. This is the track record of someone you might expect to adopt the Left&#8217;s narrative on &#8220;white privilege,&#8221; because she&#8217;s adopted so many of the Left&#8217;s other narratives.
The much bigger issue is that Nancy Mace is just one example of a larger problem in the Republican Party — one that affects politicians we&#8217;re told are considerably smarter, and more right-of-center, than Nancy Mace.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1297-ufc-fighter-delivers-a-masterclass-in-how-to-deal-with-the-media-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
Take Matt Gaetz, for example. Gaetz obviously doesn&#8217;t comply with the Left&#8217;s new speech codes. He publicly humiliated Mark Milley, who was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff at the time, for teaching soldiers about &#8220;white rage.&#8221; He also led the effort to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy because he wasn&#8217;t sufficiently committed to the &#8220;America First&#8221; movement. All this is to say, Matt Gaetz is the last person you&#8217;d expect to pull a Nancy Mace and start adopting the Left&#8217;s framing on identity politics.
But this week, that&#8217;s exactly what Matt Gaetz did.
Appearing on Newsmax, Gaetz began talking about Donald Trump&#8217;s big win in the Iowa Caucuses. And he said that, based on his experience on the ground in Iowa, Trump is attracting more &#8220;diverse&#8221; voters, meaning voters who aren&#8217;t white. And Matt Gaetz presented this as a good thing. Here&#8217;s how he phrased it:
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“For every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamaal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement. That abodes well for our ability to be diverse and durable.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fslOPui91c">pic.twitter.com/fslOPui91c</a>
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“For every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamaal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement.” If we decode the language there, Matt Gaetz is saying that in the freezing tundra of Iowa, he apparently didn&#8217;t see a lot of white women. But he did see tons of Hispanics and black people coming out for Donald Trump. They were presumably waving their MAGA flags around in the blizzard conditions or whatever.
Even if you pretend that&#8217;s true, which it clearly isn&#8217;t, the language Matt Gaetz used in that clip tells you a lot. No Republican, Matt Gaetz included, would ever dream of speaking this way about black voters in the reverse. You aren&#8217;t going to hear Gaetz say of black voters who don&#8217;t vote Republican (which is the vast majority): &#8220;Oh we don&#8217;t need those Jamals. We&#8217;ve got plenty of white people to take their place.&#8221; He&#8217;s only going to talk like that about white women, or &#8220;Karens,&#8221; as he calls them.
Here is a Republican who is even considered (wrongly, I think) to be &#8220;far right&#8221; who has entirely adopted the Left&#8217;s anti-white rhetoric and racial double standards. That&#8217;s how pervasive this stuff is. He&#8217;s happy to attack &#8220;Karens,&#8221; but he&#8217;d never do the same in reverse, because then he&#8217;d be called a racist. And he can&#8217;t have that.
The other remarkable thing about this clip is how it inverts all of the conservative arguments we&#8217;ve been hearing for the past several years. We went from Democrats denying that the Great Replacement was happening, to admitting it and saying it&#8217;s good, to Republicans also agreeing that it&#8217;s good and advocating for a Great Replacement in their own party. But along with being objectionable, this is also politically suicidal. It actually isn&#8217;t at all even close to true that for every white female voter Republicans lose, they&#8217;re replacing her with a black voter. White women still support Republicans in far, far greater numbers than black males. It&#8217;s not even close. As Ann Coulter has pointed out many times, the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/21/trump-white-voters-support-418420">only group</a> Trump lost ground with in 2020 was white people — specifically <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-support-demographics-white-men-exit-poll-1545144">white men</a>. And yet Republicans have apparently decided that the key to victory is to pander for the minority vote while alienating their key constituency.
Whatever explains this self-defeating embrace of identity politics among conservatives, it&#8217;s definitely catching on. It&#8217;s not just Nancy Mace and Matt Gaetz doing it. In that same hearing where Nancy Mace talked about &#8220;white privilege,&#8221; Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that Hunter Biden was afraid of her because she&#8217;s a strong, independent woman. Watch:
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She actually said that, as if it was some kind of devastating insult. &#8220;He&#8217;s not afraid because he&#8217;s a criminal; he&#8217;s afraid because we&#8217;re girlbosses.&#8221; That&#8217;s the idea. It&#8217;s hard to think of a better way to torpedo the case against Hunter Biden than to use lines like this. When you have a strong case against someone, you don&#8217;t say they&#8217;re afraid because you&#8217;re a woman. You say they&#8217;re afraid because of the damning facts and evidence you&#8217;ve assembled. This is the exact opposite of what Republicans should have done in this hearing, but one after another, they did it. They kept commiting to these vapid displays of identity politics, over and over again.
And it&#8217;s not just confined to that one hearing, or to Matt Gaetz interviews. By now we&#8217;re all familiar at this point with Nikki Haley&#8217;s constant use of identity politics during this campaign. In case you somehow missed it, here&#8217;s a mercifully short clip to show you what I&#8217;m talking about:
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Just like the remarks from Nancy Mace or Marjorie Taylor Greene or Matt Gaetz, this is totally indistinguishable from something AOC might say. It&#8217;s the most cliched form of gender politics imaginable. It&#8217;s not just stupid. It adopts the Left&#8217;s narrative that immutable characteristics — like skin color or gender — matter more than anything else. This is a narrative that has cost millions of people jobs, college admissions, contracting jobs, federal financial assistance, and so on. It has been a disaster for this country and it needs to stop. Instead of saying that, Republicans are embracing it. They&#8217;re reinforcing it at every opportunity.
Why is this happening? It&#8217;s possible that we&#8217;re seeing yet another cynical attempt to win over voters. Maybe that&#8217;s the explanation. But if that&#8217;s the case, it&#8217;s obviously a bad idea. You might remember that Donald Trump devoted years of his presidency to pushing something called &#8220;The First Step Act,&#8221; which Matt Gaetz promoted. The Trump team even ran a Super Bowl ad featuring a drug trafficker that Trump let out of prison. The idea, according to Trump&#8217;s inner circle, was to improve the GOP&#8217;s voting share among black Americans. Of course it didn&#8217;t work. Black voters in 2020 did what they&#8217;ve done in every modern election, which is vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. Trump got basically the same percentage of the black vote that George W. Bush did back in 2004. 
So if identity politics is a ploy for votes, it doesn&#8217;t seem likely to work. Identity politics from the Right doesn&#8217;t appear to convince anyone. But if you take a few steps back, it&#8217;s not hard to see that identity politics is just one part of a much larger problem among conservatives. Increasingly, conservatives are embracing the narratives of the Left, wholesale, even when they&#8217;re complete lies. We saw that when Nikki Haley mourned the death of George Floyd. She immediately bought the official narrative, and then she went on to say — as American cities were burning down — that George Floyd&#8217;s death needed to be &#8220;personal and painful for every American.&#8221; We also saw this from Mitt Romney, who marched with BLM, and even chanted their slogans. 
And just the other day, we saw something similar from Ron DeSantis at a CNN town hall. Watch as CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer asks DeSantis a question that&#8217;s premised on a completely false narrative. And then notice that Ron DeSantis doesn&#8217;t push back at all:
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DeSantis wasn’t briefed on the border hoax?
He immediately assumes that CNN is telling the truth, when they were lying. Smearing innocent Texas who are defending this country and the border.
I can’t believe it. How did DeSantis not know this! 
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&mdash; Cernovich (@Cernovich) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1747708528327033304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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As Mike Cernovich pointed out on X, this is completely inexcusable. CNN is flat-out lying about what happened. And in response, maybe because no one briefed him on this, DeSantis just accepts the premise, which originated from the Biden White House, even though it was completely wrong. What happened is that the White House originally claimed that quote, &#8220;a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass, and Texas officials blocked U.S. Border Patrol from attempting to provide emergency assistance.” That was the report that millions of people heard from CBS News, which broadcast the narrative first.
But shortly afterwards, Joe Biden&#8217;s DOJ contradicted that version of events entirely. As Fox&#8217;s Bill Melugin pointed out, the DOJ made it clear that quote, &#8220;The migrants had already drowned at 8 p.m., and the Border Patrol didn’t inform Texas until an hour later at 9 p.m. &#8230; The DOJ now confirms, those migrants had been deceased for an hour before Texas was even alerted about it.&#8221;
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So it&#8217;s just like the false claims that the Border Patrol had &#8220;whipped&#8221; illegal migrants, as Bill Melugin pointed out. The narrative is just a total lie, as the Biden administration itself admitted. But even after the DOJ admitted that, CNN asked Ron DeSantis about it on the debate stage. And everyone pretended it was true. It&#8217;s embarrassing for the DeSantis campaign, for CNN, and for everyone else involved in this moment. But even if the narrative were true — even if illegal migrants had died who could have been saved — it still wouldn&#8217;t mean anything. It would be one anecdote that doesn&#8217;t tell us anything about immigration policy more generally. But the point is that conservatives reflexively accept the version of events they&#8217;re given. They don&#8217;t define the narrative. They just play along with the narrative they&#8217;re given. The fact that it&#8217;s getting harder and harder to find exceptions to this rule is not a good sign for the modern conservative movement.
But the other day, we saw one of these rare exceptions, courtesy of UFC fighter Sean Strickland. Strickland is an American who just arrived in Toronto for the UFC fights this weekend. Here&#8217;s how he handled a member of the Canadian press, who tried to corner him with the same kind of dumb gotcha questions that you&#8217;ve heard a million times before. Watch:
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Idk who this guy is and I don&#39;t care but you&#39;re not a man&#8230; But you&#39;d take that as a compliment&#8230;.. <a href="https://t.co/PMR1h4Yp7K">pic.twitter.com/PMR1h4Yp7K</a>
&mdash; Sean Strickland (@SStricklandMMA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SStricklandMMA/status/1747734279516250446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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How many conservative politicians could hold their ground in a situation like that, and affirm — in the face of an &#8220;ally&#8221; of the LBGTQIA+ community — that transgenderism is a mental illness? You could probably count the number on one hand, if that.
Notice how Sean Strickland doesn&#8217;t even remotely accept the premise of this hack&#8217;s questions. He doesn&#8217;t concede that he was wrong to speak his mind, or to think unapproved thoughts. Instead he immediately identifies the &#8220;reporter&#8221; as a propagandist and laughs in his face. And he reaffirms what he said before, because it&#8217;s what he believes is true. And then afterwards — at his second press conference in Toronto, after there had been a full media cycle about this, and Canada&#8217;s state press had labeled him a bigot — what did Sean Strickland do? Watch:
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You can hear the crowd loves it. At one point a guy runs up to the stage to shake his hand. So he doesn&#8217;t back down, and everyone in the audience recognizes that and appreciates it. He makes a mockery of the people who wanted him to cower and apologize — and there were a lot of them in Canada, particularly in the media. He makes it clear that hate speech isn&#8217;t real, which is bold to say in Canada, where transphobia can get you charged with a crime. There you have a UFC fighter who&#8217;s a more vocal supporter of freedom of speech than pretty much any conservative politician in America. You won&#8217;t find him talking about &#8220;white privilege&#8221; or &#8220;strong conservative women.&#8221; This is what resonates now.
If the Republican Party wants to win elections, this is the path it needs to take. If they reject the Left&#8217;s obsession with skin color and gender and homosexuality, then voters will respond. We don&#8217;t need another &#8220;First Step Act,&#8221; or any pandering to stereotypes like Julio and Jamaal. We need politicians who are capable of acting like normal people.
If a UFC fighter can do it, there&#8217;s no reason the leaders of the Republican Party can&#8217;t.

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House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) could be on the verge of facing a no-confidence vote through the same process that removed his predecessor, Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA), as speaker last year.
Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/rep-chip-roy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chip Roy</a> (R-TX), a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, said on Tuesday that he would not rule out using the &#8220;motion to vacate&#8221; mechanism against Johnson amid objections to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-and-senate-leaders-reach-spending-deal-johnson-touts-concessions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">government spending framework</a> released by congressional leaders over the weekend and a warning about an impending border security deal.
&#8220;I&#8217;m leaving it on the table. I&#8217;m not gonna say I&#8217;m gonna go file it tomorrow night. I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m not gonna file it tomorrow. I think the speaker needs to know that we&#8217;re angry about it,&#8221; Roy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDjY0NY5VUQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told BlazeTV host Steve Deace</a>.
Concessions made during McCarthy&#8217;s rise to the speakership early last year restored the ability of a single member to trigger the “motion to vacate” process that would lead to a no-confidence vote. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fallout-and-triumphs-from-the-matt-gaetz-coup" target="_blank" rel="noopener">did just that</a> in early October after the House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-stopgap-spending-measure-with-no-additional-support-for-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed a stop-gap spending measure</a> to prevent a government shutdown. He and seven other Republicans joined with Democrats to remove McCarthy from the speakership. Since then, Johnson got elected speaker and McCathy has left Congress.
Roy said he publicly voiced opposition to the effort to rip the speaker&#8217;s gavel from McCarthy. He noted some frustrations with what transpired under the California Republican&#8217;s leadership, but also acknowledged progress with spending caps getting implemented and conservatives achieving &#8220;some success&#8221; as lawmakers began advancing <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4224579-house-gop-advances-four-spending-bills-after-failed-attempts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">individual spending bills</a> as opposed to omnibus legislation that would combine them.
While Johnson touted a &#8220;topline&#8221; $1.59 trillion figure for the fiscal 2024 appropriations process along with &#8220;concessions&#8221; as part of an agreement with congressional Democrats, Roy suggested it ignores options devised under McCarthy that offered more financial restraints and contains <a href="https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy/status/1744778877845610530" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;budget gimmicks&#8221;</a> that increase spending above the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-vote-166-trillion-funding-bill-shutdown-deadline-nears-2022-12-23/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$1.66 trillion fiscal 2023 omnibus spending bill</a> negotiated under then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/HouseGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HouseGOP</a> FAILED to use its leverage to force cuts to inflationary spending
We must reject this &quot;deal&quot; w/ Dems that will INCREASE spending by ~$30 BILLION &amp; fund agencies at war with our liberty &amp; security &#8211; like Mayorkas&#39; DHS<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoGimmicks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NoGimmicks</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoSideDeals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NoSideDeals</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoSecurityNoFunding?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NoSecurityNoFunding</a> <a href="https://t.co/XRBmzUshyz">pic.twitter.com/XRBmzUshyz</a>
&mdash; Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy/status/1744778877845610530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Roy told Deace he will reserve judgment until he sees what &#8220;policy riders&#8221; might come out of negotiations. But he isn&#8217;t getting his hopes up after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congress-passes-886-billion-defense-policy-bill-with-military-pay-raise-spy-tool-extension-and-ukraine-aid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defense policy bill</a> that included a FISA section 702 surveillance extension and &#8220;basically got rid of all of our DEI and CRT stuff,&#8221; as well as another stopgap spending measure.
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Democrats warned House Republicans not to include &#8220;poison pill policy changes&#8221; in any of the fiscal 2024 spending bills or risk losing their support. President Joe Biden also released a statement that said &#8220;congressional Republicans must do their job, stop threatening to shut down the government, and fulfill their basic responsibility to fund critical domestic and national security priorities.&#8221;
The prospect of another government shutdown looms <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/johnson-led-house-passes-bill-to-avert-government-shutdown-with-dem-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as a two-step continuing resolution (CR) passed in November</a> funds certain federal agencies through January 19 while others would get money through February 2. Separately, lawmakers in the Senate are holding bipartisan talks on a deal to tie border security reforms to supplemental national funds for U.S. allies such as Ukraine and Israel.
&#8220;If they totally botch it — we get no policy reforms and we&#8217;re spending $1.66 trillion, I don&#8217;t know why we would keep him as speaker,&#8221; Roy said, adding later that he would fight &#8220;$60 billion on Ukraine and bull crap border security&#8221; reforms after the GOP-led House passed its own border security bill last year that the Democrat-led Senate refuses to consider.

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House Republican Won’t Rule Out ‘Motion To Vacate’ Against Speaker Johnson

House Republican Won't Rule Out 'Motion To Vacate' Against Speaker Johnson

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Days after leading a successful revolt against Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA), Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-gaetz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Gaetz</a> (R-FL) said the gambit was &#8220;absolutely&#8221; worth potentially losing his seat in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a>.
&#8220;Look, I am here to fight for my constituents. And I&#8217;m here to ensure that America&#8217;s not on a path to financial ruin,&#8221; Gaetz told NBC&#8217;s Kristen Welker on &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; in an interview <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-october-8-2023-n1307318" target="_blank" rel="noopener">that aired on October 8</a>. Gaetz also decried what he said was a lack of a &#8220;plan&#8221; on spending after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-stopgap-spending-measure-with-no-additional-support-for-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the House</a> passed a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown in late September.
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Fast-forward 11 weeks and Gaetz is still in office while McCarthy is <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1737195060435808682" target="_blank" rel="noopener">set to retire</a> early at the end of the year.
The GOP-controlled House, now led for roughly two months by Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA), has made some <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/09/politics/house-republicans-government-funding/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">progress</a> in approving more <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/us/politics/government-shutdown-vote-mike-johnson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">single-subject</a> spending bills instead of resorting to &#8220;omnibus&#8221; legislation — a stated priority for Gaetz — albeit with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/johnson-led-house-passes-bill-to-avert-government-shutdown-with-dem-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two-step or &#8220;laddered&#8221;</a> continuing resolution to keep the government funded through early next year and <a href="https://rollcall.com/2023/11/15/house-headed-home-after-defeat-of-rule-for-iran-spending-bills/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">familiar struggles</a> to <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1717201849525194845" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stay on schedule</a>.
Though he opposed the latest stop-gap spending measure, Gaetz <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/matt-gaetz-mike-johnson-cr-shutdown-kevin-mccarthy-1843487" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asserted to CNN</a> last month that Johnson &#8220;<a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cnap/date/2023-11-13/segment/01" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has shown a commitment</a> and a sincerity in this process that was totally absent under Kevin McCarthy.&#8221;
Gaetz may like what he is seeing with Johnson as speaker, but House Republicans still face the reality of having to contend with a Democrat-led Senate and a Democrat in the White House. All the while Congress is facing a public opinion crisis — <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/congress/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">with less than 20% approval</a>, according to FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s poll tracker — and data reported by Axios showing that 2023 had the <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/12/19/118-congress-bills-least-unproductive-chart" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fewest number of laws passed</a> in decades.
And there is uncertainty in the long run when it comes to the new speaker&#8217;s effectiveness on a number of fronts.
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McCarthy established himself as a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/20/mccarthy-house-new-york-00128080" target="_blank" rel="noopener">powerhouse fundraiser</a>, and his sudden ouster <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/12/11/rich-hudson-mike-johnson-nrcc-fundraising" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaves Johnson with a lot to prove to donors</a>. The California Republican also touted himself as a key architect in <a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/kevin-mccarthys-speech-after-losing-historic-vote-transcript" target="_blank" rel="noopener">building two GOP majorities</a> in the House. Johnson&#8217;s first big election test will come in 2024.
&#8220;We have to keep the team together and I think everybody understands the importance of the job that we have to do. We have to demonstrate we can govern well,&#8221; Johnson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-johnson-says-house-gop-has-to-keep-the-team-together-amid-dwindling-majority" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently told Fox News</a> when pressed on the House GOP&#8217;s narrowing majority. &#8220;When we do that, I think we&#8217;ll expand the majority and we&#8217;ll be in a much better situation in the next round.&#8221;
Gaetz <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/matt-gaetz-mike-johnson-cr-shutdown-kevin-mccarthy-1843487" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cnap/date/2023-11-13/segment/01" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to CNN</a> that he would not hold Johnson to a different standard than McCarthy. He warned Johnson would &#8220;likely face a similar fate&#8221; if the new speaker fails to rein in spending after being given several months to settle into the new position.
McCarthy, who represents the 20th Congressional District in California, was first elected to Congress in 2006 and worked his way up the GOP ranks. He won the speaker’s gavel in the 15th round of voting in January, but only after making concessions, such as restoring the ability of a single member to trigger the “motion to vacate” process that would lead to a no-confidence vote. That&#8217;s just what Gaetz did in early October, after which he and seven other Republicans joined with Democrats to remove McCarthy from the speakership.
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In a recent interview <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-full-transcript-12-10-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">with CBS News</a>, McCarthy encouraged Johnson not to fret over the &#8220;motion to vacate&#8221; mechanism. &#8220;I think the best advice I could give to him: you&#8217;re the speaker of the House. Do not — do not govern in the idea that you&#8217;re afraid somebody&#8217;s going to make a motion to vacate,&#8221; McCarthy said.
&#8220;When I made the decision to pay our troops and not shut down, I knew they were going to make a motion to vacate on me. I didn&#8217;t even know the Democrats would go along with it. But what I did know is, I had been in that room before. I had watched what had failed,&#8221; McCarthy said. He also claimed, &#8220;I would do it all again, because I hope others would look at that and do the exact same thing. It was right.&#8221;
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During the speakership clash, McCarthy claimed that Gaetz&#8217;s opposition to his leadership really had to do with <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/house-speaker-mccarthy-defends-leadership-says-gaetz-has-personal-issues.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;personal&#8221; issues</a> under review in a House ethics investigation. Gaetz fired back, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/house-speaker-mccarthy-defends-leadership-says-gaetz-has-personal-issues.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CNBC</a>, saying, &#8220;For some people, policy failures are recast as personal because their own failures are personally embarrassing to them.&#8221;
As recently as this month, the House Ethics Committee probe <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/politics/ethics-committee-requests-interview-withwitnessin-gaetz-probe/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was reportedly still active</a> following another witness interview request. It remains to be seen what the panel finds, but a scathing ethics report on another member — Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/george-santos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Santos</a> (R-NY) — led to a bipartisan vote that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-votes-to-expel-george-santos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expelled him</a> from the House.
While a great deal of uncertainty hovers over what is promising to be a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-supreme-court-rules-trump-not-eligible-to-run-in-2024-removes-him-from-ballot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wild presidential election year</a>, the House began its holiday break with the GOP united. Every Republican member voted in favor of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-votes-to-formally-authorize-biden-impeachment-inquiry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">formally authorizing</a> the corruption-focused impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden on December 13.
Johnson also gave conservatives reason to cheer when he stood firm in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-johnson-wants-transformative-border-security-reforms-in-exchange-for-ukraine-aid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanding &#8220;transformative&#8221;</a> border security reforms in exchange for a funding boost to U.S. allies, including Ukraine, and spearheaded the passage of a bill to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-gop-proposes-israel-aid-offset-by-irs-budget-cuts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offset $14.3 billion</a> in aid for Israel by slashing the same amount of funds meant for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that got the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/12-house-dems-ignore-biden-veto-threat-help-pass-israel-aid-with-irs-cuts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">begrudging support of a dozen Democrats</a>.
After Johnson announced the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-johnson-announces-public-release-of-january-6-footage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online rollout of more January 6 footage</a> last month — a significant step in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-releases-january-6-footage-that-raises-new-questions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disclosure process</a> that began under his predecessor — Gaetz praised the new speaker for <a href="https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1725632563748786422" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> &#8220;keeping&#8221;</a> his word. &#8220;If he says he is going to do something, he is going to do it,&#8221; Gaetz said in a post to X.

Fallout And Triumphs From The Matt Gaetz Coup

The first rule of politics is this: Never run directly into a tree while kicking yourself repeatedly in the groin.
Republicans in Congress seem to have forgotten this rule.
Two weeks ago, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), along with limelight-seeking compatriots like Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), decided it was time to get rid of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. Sure, McCarthy had only been speaker for approximately five minutes. And sure, in that time, McCarthy had defeated Joe Biden in a standoff over a continuing resolution and was preparing to pry concessions out of Senate Democrats that amounted to a cut in discretionary spending plus border funding.
But it was time for McCarthy to go.
Why?
Because of “The Establishment,” that’s why.
What, you may ask, is “The Establishment&#8221;?
Well, apparently, defining The Establishment is a little like asking someone to capture the wind in a bottle or to trap starlight with one’s hands.
Sometimes, The Establishment means Republicans who are in favor of fiscal responsibility, like that “Establishment Toady Paul Ryan.” 
Sometimes, The Establishment means Republicans who want to expand the size and scope of government, like that “Establishment RINO George W. Bush.”
Sometimes, The Establishment means Republicans who are socially conservative, like that “Establishment Stooge Mike Pence.” 
Sometimes, The Establishment means Republicans who are socially liberal, like that “Establishment Pawn Susan Collins.”
Sometimes, The Establishment means people who are hawkish on foreign policy, like that “Establishment Dunce Lindsey Graham.” 
Sometimes, The Establishment means people who are dovish on foreign policy, like that “Establishment Doofus Jon Huntsman.”
Now, the term “Establishment” used to have a meaning. It used to mean a person with power who was too conciliatory to Left-wing positions.
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But during Donald Trump’s presidency — when he was actually president — we learned power had nothing to do with it. Trump, the most powerful person on the planet, wasn’t The Establishment.
During Trump’s presidency, we also learned friendliness to Left-wing positions didn’t make one “Establishment” either — after all, it was Trump who declared entitlement programs, the biggest drivers of America’s debt, were off the table for discussion.
So, what makes someone The Establishment?
Insufficient posturing.
That’s it. That’s the whole thing.
Posturing.
See, the only way to avoid being labeled “Establishment” these days is to get nothing done, but to yell really, really loudly, particularly about The Establishment. To be anti-Establishment is to complain about losing elections while doing nothing to win them. It’s to shout, “The game is rigged!” — while refusing to even engage in the game at all. 
Being anti-Establishment is apparently about whining.
It’s about showing what you’re against by posturing, and then telling your audience if you posture theatrically enough, your opposition will surrender. Passing legislation is a no-no. Recognizing reality? Nope. Doing any of that is surrendering to the opposition. You can vote with Democrats to take down a Republican Speaker of the House with no backup plan, and you’ll be considered anti-Establishment, all because you yell about The Establishment.
Now, that’s all fun and games in the commentariat. After all, in my industry, it’s easy to remain ideologically pure. The beauty of what people like me do for a living is that we can speak on what we wish would happen, what the best of all possible worlds would be; we can point out where our politicians are falling short of our principles. We can keep the pressure on the politicians. That’s our job.
But when it comes to Congress, purism is a recipe for stagnation and disaster. That’s because, believe it or not, budgets do need to be passed. Legislation does need to be crafted. If you don’t do those things, Americans put you in minority status in the halls of power.
Permanently.
Because Republicans have to deal with a very slim majority in the House, a Democratic Senate, and a Democratic President, any Speaker of the House will have to fall short of perfectly performative opposition. Being Speaker of a fractious caucus faced with a minority position in the upper chamber and White House necessarily means cutting deals, not just posturing. That was true of McCarthy. It would have been true of Steve Scalise (R-LA). It would have been true of Jim Jordan (R-OH) too. If Matt Gaetz suddenly became Speaker, it would be true for him too. 
Our Congress, though, has now been filled with people responding to the incentive structure created for the commentariat. You get attention and money for posturing, not legislating. You yell about The Establishment — i.e., anyone who does anything in Congress — and you win points.
And so, according to Matt Gaetz, Kevin McCarthy was The Establishment. And that meant he had to be defenestrated in favor of, well, someone. Or no one. Or maybe someone who is a no one.
We don’t quite know yet. 
What we do know is that the Speaker won’t be Kevin McCarthy, he of the 78% Heritage Action Score. And it won’t be Steve Scalise, he of the 82% Heritage Action Score, or Jim Jordan, who has the same Heritage Action Score. Maybe it will be Tom Emmer (R-MN), he of the 82% Heritage Action score, but probably not. And it probably won’t be Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), he of the 82% Heritage Action Score.
Actually, it’ll probably be no one for a good while longer. Meanwhile, Biden will work to ram through a $105 billion defense package that includes $60 billion for Ukraine and $10 billion for Gaza — all it will take is peeling off a few Republicans to vote with the Democrats. Again. 
Now, you know who could have helped to stop that? Who could have proposed single issue spending bills on foreign policy? A Speaker of the House. But at least The Establishment was stopped. That’s the important thing.
And there’s good news: If Republicans keep losing the way they did in 2018, 2020, and 2022, they won’t have to worry about being The Establishment — because they won’t have power at all.
Note that none of this has anything to do with principle. It has nothing to do with conservatism or victory. It has to do, instead, with applause and cash and fame.
But for many people in the Republican Party, that’s apparently good enough.
It shouldn’t be.
Republicans can still win. They can still push the ball forward for conservatism. But to do that, they’ll need to actually think about how to win, not merely how to posture. They’ll need to stop running directly into trees. If they don’t, all they’ll end up with is a minority position in Congress, a Democrat in the White House, and a terrible ache in the groin.
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Republicans, Please Stop Kicking Yourself In The Groin

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Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) slammed Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and seven other Republicans on Sunday, saying they caused the U.S. Congress to be paralyzed as war breaks out in the Middle East.
McCarthy made the remarks during an interview with Kristen Welker on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; on Sunday when asked about the ongoing drama in the House — which has not had a speaker for three weeks after the group of Republicans joined Democrats and voted to oust McCarthy.
The seven other Republicans included Andy Biggs (AZ), Ken Buck (CO), Eli Crane (AZ), Bob Good (VA), Matt Rosendale (MT), Tim Burchett (TN), and Nancy Mace (SC).
&#8220;What do you say to Americans who look at this chaos and believe it&#8217;s a sign that Republicans cannot govern?&#8221; Welker asked.
&#8220;Well, that&#8217;s embarrassing,&#8221; McCarthy responded. &#8220;And you&#8217;ve got to understand why we are here. Eight Republicans, led by Gaetz, have created this chaos by joining every single Democrat in voting to shut down one branch of government.&#8221;
McCarthy said he would do the same thing again by keeping the government open because of all the world events going on right now.
&#8220;Could you imagine if we were having this discussion right now with the American government shut down, with our troops in the Middle East wondering when they&#8217;ll ever get paid again?&#8221; he said. &#8220;Keeping the government open was the right decision to make. And I&#8217;d make it again, each and every day.&#8221;
&#8220;Unfortunately, the chaos has continued,&#8221; McCarthy continued while speaking about the conference&#8217;s inability to pick a new speaker. &#8220;We need to solve this problem. We&#8217;ve got a wide-open Southern border. We&#8217;ve got crushing inflation. We&#8217;ve got war in the Middle East. This is not a moment in time to play around with learning on the job. We need someone who understands how to do this job.&#8221;
McCarthy took another shot at Gaetz a few moments later, saying that Gaetz decided to oust McCarthy because he had a personal vendetta against him over a House investigation into him that was started in the last Congress.
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McCarthy Presser Sept 29

Kevin McCarthy: 8 Republicans, Led By Matt Gaetz, Have Caused ‘Embarrassing’ Situation For House GOP

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republicans</a> are set to hold a forum on Tuesday for candidates to make their final pitch in the race for speaker in the GOP-controlled <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a>.
Details about the event, which reportedly will <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1711762488998465581" target="_blank" rel="noopener">begin at 5 p.m. EST</a>, were shared by House Republican Conference Chairwoman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elise-stefanik">Elise Stefanik</a> (R-NY) in a <a href="https://twitter.com/RepStefanik/status/1711761372764070141" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post to X</a>.
&#8220;This evening, the House Republican Conference will host a candidate forum for GOP Members to hear from Speaker of the House declared candidates,&#8221; Stefanik said.
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&#8220;Each declared candidate for Speaker will have 5 minutes of opening remarks, followed by a Q&amp;A session with Members, and concluding with a 2 minutes closing statement,&#8221; she added.
Stefanik concluded, &#8220;I look forward to hosting a productive session to ensure we focus on delivering for the American people.&#8221;
An internal party leadership election is expected to follow on Wednesday; a simple majority in the conference, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/09/politics/house-speaker-race-jordan-scalise/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">which CNN says would be 111</a>, is needed to win the party&#8217;s nomination.
Ultimately who becomes speaker will be decided in a full House floor vote. Again, a simple majority will be needed for victory. Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) is serving as speaker pro tempore in the short term.
While Democrats are <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1711742102319640945" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected to rally behind</a> Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hakeem-jeffries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hakeem Jeffries</a> (D-NY), two GOP members have announced candidacies for the House speaker&#8217;s gavel on the Republican side after the chamber voted last week to remove Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) as speaker.
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The declared GOP candidates are House Majority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/steve-scalise" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steve Scalise</a> (R-LA) and Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH), who is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Both have already begun to <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1710426849556218120">share their</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ByMonaSalama/status/1709593857715769432">respective visions</a> for the House and called for unity among Republicans. Some members have <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/house-speaker-race-endorsement-live-tracker-steve-scalise-jim-jordan">announced</a> their support for Scalise or for Jordan, while many others in the conference have yet to say who they will support.
Former President Donald Trump, who has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-endorses-jim-jordan-for-speaker-of-the-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> Jordan for speaker, was reportedly considering an appearance at the forum on Tuesday though is now said to be <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/09/trump-change-plans-unlikely-dc-tomorrow-speaker-race-meeting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;unlikely&#8221;</a> to attend. A few members have even floated Trump to become interim speaker, as the Constitution does not rule out non-House members from holding the title, but Trump has signaled he is focused on his 2024 campaign seeking another term in the White House.
Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK), another Republican considered to be a possible candidate for speaker, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/likely-house-speaker-candidate-bows-out-the-need-for-unity-comes-first" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declined</a> to enter the contest. &#8220;I believe a three-man race for Speaker will create even more division and make it harder to elect a Speaker,&#8221; he said in a statement.
There is also some hope within the conference that McCarthy, who had said he will not run for speaker again, will make a comeback. Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), for instance, is urging McCarthy to <a href="https://twitter.com/RepCarlos/status/1711212421744898336" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reconsider</a>. So far, McCarthy hasn&#8217;t quite ruled out a return, <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1711454084589289750" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, &#8220;That&#8217;s a decision by the conference.&#8221;
As members hash out who they will elect as their next speaker, some have also raised the prospect of reforming or getting rid of the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/motion-vacate-lightning-rod-stormy-house-speakers-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;motion to vacate&#8221; rule</a> that was used by a single member — Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) — to trigger the no-confidence vote against McCarthy. Though a majority of GOP members voted to keep McCarty as speaker, eight Republicans joined Democrats to secure his ouster, citing objections to McCarthy&#8217;s leadership.
The Republican Main Street Caucus <a href="https://twitter.com/CaucusMain/status/1709619808159858922" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the one-person threshold for a no-confidence vote keeps a &#8220;chokehold&#8221; over the House. The group also called for speaker candidates to &#8220;explain&#8221; how what happened to McCarthy will &#8220;never happen again.&#8221;

Rep. Steve Scalise (R) (R-LA) talks to U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)

What To Expect With The GOP’s House Speaker Forum

What To Expect With The GOP's House Speaker Forum

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-gaetz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Gaetz</a> (R-FL) was grilled during an interview Sunday over whether his actions last week, which effectively paralyzed Congress just prior to war breaking out in the Middle East, were &#8220;irresponsible.&#8221;
Gaetz made the remarks during an interview with Kristen Welker on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; when asked about his motion to vacate the speaker, which resulted in the Speaker of the House being removed for the first time in U.S. history.
Welker noted remarks that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who was the speaker until last week, made over the weekend in light of the terror attacks in Israel.
&#8220;The fact that the House of Representatives is leaderless at this important moment. Why would you ever remove a speaker during a term and raise a doubt around the world?&#8221; McCarthy said.
&#8220;Did your actions this week to remove the speaker undermine U.S. national security and safety?&#8221; Welker asked.
&#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t think that other countries think about Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s speakership quite as much as Kevin McCarthy does,&#8221; Gaetz said. &#8220;We&#8217;ll have a new speaker next week, and we&#8217;ll be prepared to do our work.&#8221;
Gaetz said that McCarthy was removed for breaking promises with some members of Congress &#8212; while more than 200 Republicans voted to keep him as Speaker. McCarthy has stated that he believes Gaetz&#8217;s actions were personal and that they were motivated based on a House Ethics Committee investigation into him.
Gaetz did say that what was going on in Israel was horrifying and Israel had every right to defend itself.
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&#8220;Congressman, you say that you stand with Israel, you&#8217;re ready to defend Israel,&#8221; Welker said. &#8220;And yet you&#8217;re completely incapable of helping Israel because you&#8217;ve brought Congress to a standstill, a state of paralysis. Have you not?&#8221;
Mixed with some cross-talk, Gaetz replied: &#8220;We have a ten-year, ongoing memorandum of understanding that sends Israel almost $4 [billion] … but what [Secretary of State Antony Blinken] said was there was no need in Israel that we&#8217;re not going to be able to meet based on the funding that we&#8217;ve already approved for Israel. And the reason we have this multibillion-dollar commitment each and every year to Israel is because we want Israel to have a qualitative military edge over everyone in the region. They have that edge. Israel has air superiority now; we are seeing their armored vehicles in the north. … there is no ask from Israel that we are unable to meet because it&#8217;s going to take us a few days to pick a new Speaker.&#8221;
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WATCH: Gaetz Grilled Over Paralyzing Congress As War Breaks Out In Middle East

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