Posted on 10/06/2023 10:56:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
Liberal Republicans and Democrats and RINO Republicans are working together to expel Rep. Matt Gaetz (FL) from the U.S. House in the wake of Tuesday’s successful ouster of Kevin McCarthy from his role as Speaker of the House, according to an exclusive interview Rep. Lauren Boebert gave National File on Thursday.
“The threat to expel Matt Gaetz is definitely real,” Boebert told National File’s publisher Noel Fritsch via telephone. “The next House Speaker needs to make blocking any expulsion vote of Gaetz a primary piece of their platform for the gavel,” Boebert said.
“I fully support Matt’s move to use a privileged motion to vacate the Speaker. While I may have had disagreements with Matt on timing, it is important to note that without my fighting so hard in January to add the one-member Motion to Vacate back into the Rules package, Matt would not have been able to file the motion,” Boebert told National File.
“A lot of our colleagues in D.C. were pushing back against us, telling us the Motion to Vacate was a distraction, and so I told them that with all of the other demands we were going to be making, we absolutely needed to have an accountability mechanism to give teeth to our efforts,” she explained.
“Without my working so hard for the Motion to Vacate in January, this would not have happened,” she said.
In focusing on stopping an expulsion vote against Matt Gaetz, Boebert is adding another keystone item to conservatives’ wish-list for a new House Speaker.
Other top-tier demands include ending the funding of the Ukraine war and defunding the Jack Smith prosecution of Donald Trump, releasing the January 6th political prisoners, and more broadly stopping the weaponization of the DOJ.
Jim Jordan, who was installed by McCarthy as head of the Judiciary Committee, quickly announced his candidacy for House Speaker. Jordan was supposed to have been heading up the effort with the Weaponization Committee to end the Biden administration’s weaponized D.O.J. Whether Jordan’s his lack of success in stopping the Biden administration from weaponizing the DOJ against Trump will help or hurt his newly announced bid for House Speaker.
The rules for the expulsion vote are provided for in the Constitution.. Two-thirds of the members of each the House and the Senate may vote to expel a member for what the rules call “disorderly conduct.” Whispers around the idea that the House may vote to expel Matt Gaetz have been bubbling up since the Florida representative began making public statements about the failed leadership of McCarthy in September.
But the threat to expel conservative house members goes back into the last Pelosi-led Congress, sources have told National File. “That threat hangs over the member like a sword of Damocles,” one senior staffer told National File. “The second the 100 or so RINOs begin teaming up with the 210 Democrats to kick us all out of Congress, it really will be over for the Republic,” another senior staffer said.
As far back as early 2021, McCarthy was working with Pelosi to use the dreaded expulsion vote to off-load troublesome members, such as those who led the initiative to object to the fraudulent electors sent to D.C. by states like Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan.
Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of the top targets of the Pelosi-McCarthy expulsion bargain from the outset of her first term in 2021, according to multiple sources on Capitol Hill.
Now, despite having voted against Donald Trump for House Speaker in January, Marjorie is telling the world she supports Trump for Speaker. The current House Rules, which Taylor Greene voted for actually bar Donald Trump from being House Speaker. Donald Trump has said he is willing to serve as House Speaker, but it would require a change of the House Rules.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s stunning one-hundred-eighty degree turn toward McCarthy had everything to do with the McCarthy-Pelosi threat to expel her after her comments about Israeli manufactured space lasers, according to multiple sources near the Greene camp. Noel Fritsch
I agree. MTG is my Congresswoman and a force to be reckoned with in my book. But nobody is right all the time, so I assume there is more to this needless slur than meets the eye.
He could move to Alabama. It’s only 45 miles from here.................
Personally, I think that this (ahem) lady is a loose cannon and should be avoided at all costs....
Until Jamaal is ousted from congress, Gaetz is safe.”
I doubt that is true. Jama is a black rat he goes nowhere. Gaetz tore the curtain back, there is a target on the middle of his forehead
Speaker can tell them it is not going to be scheduled for a vote
Matt can run in the special election if he is purged. I suspect he would win back the seat.
Why not? We have two sets of US citizens now.
Just watch what's happening to whites in South Africa at the hands of the ANC, they are self-deporting in droves, abandoning farms that have been in their families for generations, just to avoid being arrested and imprisoned, or worse, by the "government".
We're next.
Funniest post of the week!
What goes around comes around. Good riddance to Gaetz thr groomer. He can now run for Governor without the distraction of disrupting Congress.
Amen to that.
This is one of the biggest flaws in Conservative Inc.
I see this all over Social Media. Conservative Inc seem to think they can simply impose their dogmas on everyone else. If they don’t get their way immediately, they go into screaming fit mode.
That is not how Congress works. That is not how politics in the US Constitutional Republic works.
If Conservative Inc wants someone to impose their dogma on everyone else for them, they will need to make someone Dictator. However, as a student of History, I will tell you that “cure” is worse then the disease.
"Mittens" is in the Senate. Gaetz is in the House. Do you know the difference? Senators have nothing to say about this.
Yes, the Speaker can refuse to schedule a vote.
Speaker Controls What goes to the Floor for a Vote
And what does not
>> Fill the House with MAGA republicans!!!
Hillary Clinton has a plan to prevent that.
"We’ll just send him back next election................"
Expelling a member of Congress seems to be associated with disorderly behavior which doesn't apply to Gaetz imo.
"Article I, Section 5, Clause 2: Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member."
But since we're talking about expelling members of Congress, consider that the next major political event in US is not when hopeful Trump 47 gets reelected for the second time imo, but when Democratic and Republican Trump supporters primary ALL incumbent state and federal lawmakers in 2024 primaries, except for MTG, Gaetz & Company (and others?).
After all, lawmakers and executives continue to show that they do not have the patriotism and leadership skills necessary to find legislative support for effective remedies for unconstitutional government policies.
Constitution-savvy patriots can provide lists of patriots for Trump to choose from to endorse for 2024.
Patriots, let's not allow ourselves to be fooled for third time in 2024 by the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments.
As a side note to this post, consider that probably the main reason that we hear media complaints about the electoral college is the following.
The electoral college is now the only thing stopping the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments from permanently establishing a puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
Collectively, all of the democrats have caused more harm to the country (not that Gaetz has), so, why not have a vote to expel all democrats from congress. It’s the fair thing to do.
Another thing, doesn’t a Representative have to commit an infraction to get kicked out? Gaetz merely applied a rule that was voted on by the body. On what grounds could he be ejected? I don’t think personal dislike and hate could stand muster.
also sets him up for florida governor ...
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