Sen. Cruz: The Real Story of What Is Happening in Washington ( 59:47 )
Published on Sep 28, 2015
It really IS worth your time.
Posted on 09/29/2015 12:51:26 PM PDT by mojito
The choice House Republicans make to replace John Boehner as speaker will say a lot about how the party is going to handle its current identity crisis. Will it finally take governing seriously, or will it go on using its majority in Congress to shut down the government, hold show votes on health care reform, stymie President Obama and try to stop Hillary Clinton from becoming president?
The current conventional wisdom holds that the leading candidate is the majority leader, Kevin McCarthy of California. Mr. McCarthy, at least, said on Monday that it is time to stop “governing by crisis,” and that he would look for “the most conservative solution I can find.” That might, possibly, hint that he is open to compromise.
His promotion, however, would leave the majority leader spot open. And, as Jennifer Steinhauer reports today, some in the party are hoping to elevate Trey Gowdy to that position.
Mr. Gowdy, of South Carolina, was elected in 2010 and built a reputation sponsoring marginal and often bizarre bits of legislation, like the 2014 bill that would allow the House of Representatives to sue the president of the United States if it did not like the way the president was enforcing the law.
He’s a big supporter of repealing the Affordable Care Act and, of course, of denying federal money to Planned Parenthood.
But Mr. Gowdy has made his biggest splash by running the longest congressional investigation in history, which is ostensibly into the killings at the Benghazi diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012, but most often just seems like an attempt to mess around with Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.
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“Will it finally take governing seriously, or will it go on using its majority in Congress to shut down the government, hold show votes on health care reform, stymie President Obama and try to stop Hillary Clinton from becoming president?” In other words, will it (meaning I guess the Republicans in congress) roll over and play dead?
Hillary is really shaking in her boots.
Gosh Golly....they fear Gowdy.
Will be interesting to see how they spin things on “government shutdowns” when Republicans have the White House.
McCarthy is a non starter. He’s worse than what we had.
Trey would be a home run. He’s one of the sharpest guys we’ve got.
I love the smell of fear in the morning. Smells like victory.
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The writer discredits himself by demonstrating an apparent unawareness of how hopeless Mrs. Clinton’s campaign has already become. While she is in denial of reality; one would not expect a supposed political journalist to be equally obtuse.
The Slimes doesn't like the GOP or the people it sometimes claims to represent, but if they have to tolerate the GOP they much prefer the “me too” GOPe that goes along to get along and prefers to lose political fights, with a kick in the keester from the MSM for good measure, to winning them.
A marginal right the was able to win landslide victories in the last two midterm elections.
This sounds bad. This sounds like Gowdy is letting his name be put up for Majority Leader if he is paired with McCarthy’s promotion to Speaker.
I like Trey, but he doesn’t see the evil in his own party.
Run, bitches...
Ping for later viewing.
Really? Ooh, that would be so sweet.
I prefer Louie Gohmert as House Speaker but Trey Gowdy will do.
The NYT editorial staff gets the vapors rather easily these days. A fainting couch is always close by.
I prefer Louie Gohmert myself but we are going to get Kevin McCarthy.
if the nyt is upset, then it’s gotta be a good thing ...
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