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Kevin McCarthy: Chamber of Commerce ‘Left’ Republican Party ‘A Long Time Ago,’ Not Welcome Back
breitbart.com ^ | 1/11/22 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 01/11/2022 7:04:25 AM PST by cotton1706

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has no place in the modern Republican Party and that the big business lobby is not going to be welcome back if and when Republicans are back in power.

McCarthy’s comments came during the latest On The Hill long-form video special, taped in December at an Eastern Market establishment on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

“The Chamber left the party a long time ago,” McCarthy said. “In the last election, the Chamber supported Democrats. The Chamber gave a higher score to Democrats who are voting for this policy because they signed some letter then voted the opposite of what the letter said than Kevin Brady who was chair of Ways and Means and brought us the tax cuts. I just assume they have as much influence in the future as they do now—none. Our responsibility is to the American public. That is who’s going to drive it. If special interests are the American public then they’ll have a say, but it’s the American public we’re going to.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chamberofcommerce; chamberofcommunism; elections; electionsagain; gopestablishment; kabukitheater; lookslikeeconomy; mccarthy; rino; rinos; uniparty
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McCarthy is certainly saying the right things. But I still don't trust him because of this.


1 posted on 01/11/2022 7:04:25 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

The guy is trying too hard. Time to Move On.


2 posted on 01/11/2022 7:05:41 AM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: cotton1706

Must be an election coming up.


3 posted on 01/11/2022 7:06:34 AM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: cotton1706

He’s a snake. He’ll say whatever he thinks needs to be said, but he is beholden to the deep state.


4 posted on 01/11/2022 7:07:27 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: cotton1706

He knows what to say, and hasn’t a clue how to accomplish it.


5 posted on 01/11/2022 7:08:12 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: cotton1706

the big business lobby is not going to be welcome back if and when Republicans are back in power.


big business and big government go hand in hand............


6 posted on 01/11/2022 7:08:13 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: griswold3

“The guy is trying too hard. Time to Move On.”

Agreed.

out of more than 200 folks, we can’t get a different one?

Most busineses have a “Key Man” policy for continuitry, just in case.

It seesm Congress Critters expect to live (and re-elect) forever because the bench is always so shallow.


8 posted on 01/11/2022 7:08:50 AM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: cotton1706
Buh Bye Chamber of Commerce. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
9 posted on 01/11/2022 7:11:35 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: cotton1706

It’s pretty damned clear that McCarthy fears that, in the 2022 election, with the influx of new Republican Congresscritters who are NON-RINO and the exit of a number of current RINO Representatives, he will be in danger of being defeated as House Republican leader by a Freedom Caucus Republican.

Danger, Will Robertson. 🤗🤗


10 posted on 01/11/2022 7:11:40 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: ping jockey

No; he thinks none of those things. As a member of the Uniparty in good standing, he’s just fine with the communists running the show.


11 posted on 01/11/2022 7:12:56 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: cotton1706

He thinks you’re stupid.

Looking at how many Bush League Republicans who were re-elected in 2020, he’s not wrong.


12 posted on 01/11/2022 7:12:59 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: brownsfan

At least the RINO flakes know what the base wants now. Thats some small progress.


13 posted on 01/11/2022 7:13:14 AM PST by skeeter
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To: cotton1706

Cheney’s and the establishment’s lapdog.


14 posted on 01/11/2022 7:13:21 AM PST by BushCountry (Fun Fact: Goods made in America do not get stuck on cargo ships.)
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To: cotton1706

McCarthy is from California.

I think he’s responding to the rightward shift in the hispanic vote in california.

The reverse of this story happened back in the early 90’s. Back in the early 90’s democrat senator Harry Reid was hard against illegal immigration.

But when hispanic voting turned out for democrats later in that decade—and bill clinton pushed for open borders —harry reid shifted over to being an open borders guy.


15 posted on 01/11/2022 7:13:56 AM PST by ckilmer
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Looks like Breitbart’s been eroded badly if they go along with McCarthy’s Kabuki theater.


16 posted on 01/11/2022 7:14:17 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: brownsfan

He learned his snake habits from RYAN.


17 posted on 01/11/2022 7:14:19 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: cotton1706

COC has been bad for a long time. I understand that TN. Gov. Lee was secretly colluding with them a couple years ago to bring in illegals.


18 posted on 01/11/2022 7:15:02 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: skeeter
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

— Communist goal #15
The RINOs have known all along what the base wants. That’s not enough to convert them to non-RINO; why else are they called RINOs after all.
19 posted on 01/11/2022 7:16:42 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: griswold3
"Time to Move On."

WTF? To what, to where, and to what else?

20 posted on 01/11/2022 7:17:00 AM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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