Timothy Birdnow

Sundance at Conservative Treehouse breaks down the reasons for the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man's removal ffrom the Speakership:

By: Sundance, The Last Refuge, October 3, 2023 |

According to multiple DC media sources, a quiet effort is underway by members of the professionally republican mindset to kick Matt Gaetz out of the House Republican caucus. However, the advocates worry they will be primaried by voters in their district, as the population of Republican voters supports Gaetz. It is a duplicitous dynamic.

Meanwhile, Kevin McCarthy has told his Republican conference that despite prior statements, he will not attempt to become the House Speaker again and will instead retire to his home district in California.

No one is quite sure what comes next; what is clear is that Gaetz has channeled the frustration of the Republican/MAGA base into an actionable result. This should not come as a surprise to the GOPs, although many of the cloistered clan continue pretending not to understand the dynamic at play.

Allow me to provide some simple clarity.

♦ In 2009 72% of the country, and an even larger percentage of the Republican voters, did not want Obamacare. The govt takeover of healthcare was along purely ideological grounds. For the 2010 midterm election, the professional Republican apparatus campaigned on this single issue – repeal Obamacare. The voters destroyed the Democrats and flipped 67 seats to Republican control. The professional Republicans wanted the House, frustrated American voters gave it to them.

The Republicans did nothing.

♦ In 2012, the professional Republicans campaigned on retaining the House and asked to begin a process of taking down the Democrat control of the Senate. Remember, it was a 60/40 Senate when the Obamacare boondoggle was begun. Keep the House, help us take Senate seats, and we will repeal Obamacare and balance the budget. That was the call of the 2012 professional Republicans. The voters delivered. The GOPe kept the house, took 6 seats in the Senate and introduced a wave of fresh Republican blood.

The Republicans did nothing.

♦ In the 2014 midterm election, the professional Republicans campaigned on retaining the House and now flipping the Senate with more GOP seats. Keep the House, give us the Senate majority, and we will repeal Obamacare and deliver a balanced budget. The voters again delivered. Beginning in January 2015, the Republicans controlled the House and the Senate majorities for Obama’s last two years.

The Republicans did nothing.

Worse still, even with professional Republican control of both chambers of congress, President Obama never had to use his veto pen.

♦ In the 2016 election, after the professional Republicans could no longer stop/block candidate Donald Trump, they said if we get the White House, retain the House and retain the Senate, we will repeal Obamacare, return to regular budgetary order, and balance the budget. Stunningly, against all the odds, the voters yet again delivered. President Trump won the election; Republicans now held the White House, the House and the Senate – as requested.

The Republicans did nothing.

Worse still, the professional Republicans acted as if they were the dog that just caught the car. Now they had no excuses, and as a result there was an exodus of retirements announced from the caucus of the professionally Republican to begin in 2018.

Simultaneously, the professional Republicans passively allowed the targeting of Donald Trump by a fully weaponized intelligence apparatus and justice system to commence. To say the professionally Republican were willfully blind would be polite and generously honest.

In the background the RNC did nothing. The California ballot harvesting operation of 2018 reflected a complete lack of action by the RNC or CA GOP. We all well remember how that operation expanded nationwide in 2020, again with the RNC doing nothing.

This is the reality of what took place between the elections of 2010 and 2020. Every ask of the professionally rRpublican apparatus was delivered by voters. Every ask of the voters in return was ignored. Effective January 2021, Obamacare still exists, no budget was ever produced, the borders were unsecured, the economy tanked due to Biden policy, energy and printing presses. Crises, along with insufferable government mandates, amplified and expanded from coast to coast.

The Green New Deal was passed by Republicans and Democrats, and the collapse of the economy came with it.

Clear enough?
Suddenly, as if there was no background of repeated broken promises and a complete failure to deliver on any key request, Kevin McCarthy and his legion of professionally Republican supporters pretend they cannot fathom why the base voters are more than happy to support Matt Gaetz.

End.

Tim adds:

The whole purpose of the GOP on the nation's political stage is to act as a foil for the Democrats to make it appear we have two party rule and an opposition. But that is a mirage, a con to hide the fact that all ships sail in the same direction.

The fact is the Republicans are not SUPPOSED to actually accomplish anything. They are to hold the line while the Left consolidates their power. And they are to provide a safety valve to let the average American blow off steam and to fight the wrong fights.

for their contributions the GOP gets to enjoy the prestige of the illusion of power and to make a lot of money and enjoy their lives, the Big Man on Campus.

But they are not supposed to actually work for the American People.

I don't know if this is explicitly stated to them when they arrive in D.C. or if it's just a case of everyone knows it, but I suspect a LOT of blackmail is involved. We know Dennis Hastert, former House Speaker, was in fact being blackmailed for molesting a boy years before. And we know about Epstein. So it's clear there is a systemic blackmail problem. J. Edgar Hoover didn't stay in power for decades because he was such a great guy.

Trump upset all that, as did Reagan before him. The power brokers didn't dare do to Reagan what they did to Trump, but they did go after him hard. Tried to make him have a "co-president" with Gerald Ford and did wish on him George H.W. Bush.

At any rate the Republicans are now furious at Gaetz for raining on their parade.

But we will make no headway if we don't start taking action. As Einstein said, insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. By that definition the GOP is batcrap crazy.

I would add Mr. McCarthy allowed Nancy Pelosi to keep the small Speaker's office in the Capitol. What did that say? It was an act of submission to her and everyone in D.C. understood that. Mccarthy was signalling he wasn't go to do anything against the liberal agenda he wasn't absolutely forced to do.

Gaetz objected. McCarthy had been given fair warning and yet he then dared Gaetz to pull the trigger. Gaetz called his bluff, and the Democrats McCarthy thought he had charmed did not come to the rescue.

So now they want to take out Matt Gaetz. It's no surprise; anyone who doesn't play by their rules is an existential threat and must be destroyed. They are going to Trump him, no doubt.

America is doomed unless we take control of the GOP and actually have an opposition party.

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