On the Case of Nancy Pelosi: A Repulsive Congressman Who Hasn’t Gapped During the Biden Era?
He has mused publicly — purely in jest, his aides later insisted — about wanting to hit her with the oversized wooden gavel used to keep order in the House.
The same week, her spokesman, Drew Hammill, savaged Mr. McCarthy for a news conference he had held on the steps of the Capitol to discuss “firing Nancy Pelosi.” It was, Mr. Hammill said, “about par for the course for an uninspiring and incoherent politician like the minority leader, whose only real accomplishment to date is typing up a radical right-wing wish list that sends a clear message to the American people that House Republicans have gone off the deep end.”
Nancy Pelosi said at a news conference last week she did not know what Mr. McCarthy was talking about.
McCarthy is confident that he will get the votes to be speaker. He has resisted demands to make deals to weaken the speakership because of the possibility of a narrow House GOP majority, but the conservatives are more willing to support him now than they were in the past.
The Biden administration continues to rely on a Trump-era pandemic emergency rule, known as Title 42, that allows border authorities to turn migrants away at the US-Mexico border. In fiscal year 2022, amid mass migration in the Western hemisphere, US border encounters topped 2 million, according to US Customs and Border Protection data. More than 1 million were turned away.
Reply to McCarthy on “Construction Reform for the United States and the Middle East,” R. L. Norman, S.A. Rep. Scott, J. S. Kaehler, and K. D. Lee
“We will never use impeachment for political purposes,” McCarthy said. “That doesn’t mean if something rises to the occasion, it would not be used at any other time.”
McCarthy said that he was supportive of Ukraine. “I think there has to be accountability going forward. You always need resources, but make sure they are going to where you need them. Make sure the Senate and Congress have the ability to debate it openly.
Again asked how he’ll handle members of his own party who spread dangerous conspiracy theories, McCarthy responded: “I’ve watched people on both sides of the aisle,” he said. I will be the speaker for the entire House. So it won’t be looking at just Republicans. We’ll be looking at Democrats as well.”
McCarthy personally called and asked Norman for his support for speaker, but the South Carolina congressman wouldn’t commit. He told McCarthy that he had a group of people that wanted to meet in person.
The Case for a Stay in Mexico: Sensitive Torturing, Corrupt Elections and the Pelosi-Pelosi Legacy
“I think ‘Stay in Mexico’ you have to have right off the bat,” he said, referring to the controversial policy where migrants were forced to remain in Mexico while they wait for their immigration proceedings in the United States.
McCarthy said that to stem the flow of Fentanyl coming into the US, you need to attack China first, and then provide the resources the border agents need, and make sure that no one wants to move it.
The majority of the bills will focus on messaging, even though they will have to raise the national borrowing limit in order to keep the government open next year. McCarthy, however, signaled Republicans will demand spending cuts in exchange for lifting the debt ceiling, teeing up a risky fiscal showdown that could lead to a disastrous debt default.
“If you’re going to give a person a higher limit, wouldn’t you first say you should change your behavior, so you just don’t keep raising and all the time?” He said it was true. “You shouldn’t just say, ‘Oh, I’m gonna let you keep spending money.’ No household should do that.
McCarthy acknowledged Republicans were willing to raise the debt ceiling under Trump, but said the calculus is different now because Democrats spent trillions of dollars under Biden.
McCarthy denied that he would risk a default if he used the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip. You don’t risk a default.”
McCarthy wants to get freshman Marjorie Taylor Greene ofGeorgia back in her committee assignments after she was stripped by the Democrats last year for her inflammatory remarks.
When asked if he has any restrictions about which committees Greene can serve, McCarthy – who will have a direct say in doling out those assignments – said “no.” A seat on the House Oversight Committee is key to GOP investigations in a majority, she has previously told CNN.
“She’s going to have committees to serve on, just like every other member … Members request different committees and as we go through the steering committee, we’ll look at it,” he said. She can put the committees she wants in place just like any other member of the conference.
It’s not the only member who has spouted conspiracy theories. The attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, has been mocked and peddled conspiracy theories by some Republicans.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/07/politics/kevin-mccarthy-interview-border-security/index.html
“I Wanna Be,” said Paul Pelosi, a Washington State Repulsive of a President’s Corrupt Action
He said that the president should not call half the nation idiots or say things about them because of their differing opinions. I think leadership is important, and I think it starts with the president. The speaker will start it in some way.
“So I run to the door, and I’m very scared,” Pelosi said, describing what unfolded. The Capitol Police told me that they had to come in to talk to me.
I was thinking about my children and my Grandchildren. I never thought it would be Paul because, you know, I knew he wouldn’t be out and about, shall we say. They came in. At that time, we didn’t even know where he was,” she said.
The violence against Paul Pelosi raised new doubts about the threat of political violence that is driven by partisan animosity and is also threatening the safety of lawmakers and their families.
The charges include an attemptedmurder, a home invasion, assault, false imprisonment, and threatening the family member of a public official. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
What will you do next? Democratic leaders in the wake of the Pelosi attack on Monday (Monday, December 2): Getting more power in the House
Following the attack, Paul Pelosi had surgery “to repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands,” Drew Hammill, a spokesman for Nancy Pelosi, said in an earlier statement. He was released from the hospital last week.
Pelosi was asked by CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” whether she would make a decision on running for leadership before the party’s leadership elections at the end of the month.
The speaker said the decision would be affected by what happened last week, prompting Cooper to ask “Will your decision be impacted by the attack in any way?”
There needs to be a discussion about who they want to become the next leader, as multiple of my constituent have questioned the wisdom of proceeding forward with that leadership.
Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado said it was a “red line” for her, but not everyone in the Freedom Caucus is united on whether to make that a hard line.
The Freedom Caucus, a group that includes dozens of hardline members, have been meeting in Washington, DC, this week for their new member orientation, where they have begun to plot out their strategy for the speaker’s race. With a slimmer-than-expected majority, they see an opportunity, and are planning to use their leverage to get more power in a GOP-led House.
Tensions within the party have been increased by the group attempt to extract concessions from McCarthy. Said one senior GOP lawmaker: “They are a bunch of selfish, prima dona a**holes who want attention for themselves. They are trading effectiveness for the warm embrace of their social media followers.”
CNN and the C Team: Why McCarthy didn’t win the House of Representatives, Or Why he should have stayed in the Senate
CNN has not projected the control of the House of Representatives, but as of Friday morning the network projected that Republicans will have more seats than Democrats.
The group hopes to have a long list of changes they want. McCarthy has not yet indicated if he will delay next week’s internal leadership elections.
When asked whether McCarthy should get credit for delivering the majority, Norman responded: “The taxpayers that voted the representatives in deserve the credit.”
There is at least one member who said that there was nothing McCarthy could do to get his vote. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida said on his podcast that not only was McCarthy not his first choice to lead, he was not “even in my top 100”.
“With a slim majority, we shouldn’t be starting the C team,” Gaetz said. We have to recruit more people to our policies and ideas by placing our star players in a better position to shine.
Nancy Pelosi: Democrat Speaker of the House if Republicans Win. I’m all You, but I am afraid I’ll have to go through the election
“Of course. Well, you know that I’m not asking anybody – People are campaigning, and that’s a beautiful thing,” the California Democrat told Bash. “And I’m not asking anyone for anything. My members are asking if I would do that. Let’s just get through the election.
The longtime Democratic leader said that “any decision to run is about family, and also my colleagues and what we want to do is go forward in a very unified way, as we go forward to prepare for the Congress at hand.”
Pelosi said she wants to see the election results before making any decisions about who will be the speaker of the house if Republicans win.
Let’s just get through the election, okay? They haven’t won yet. They have been putting together an agenda while they measure the drapes. They have not won it yet. The way we go forward will be determined by who was in the majority after the election.
I don’t think it would be right for me to make a judgement about something that may or may not happen. No, I don’t think he has it,” she said. “But that’s up to his own people to make a decision as to how they want to be led or otherwise.”
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/13/politics/nancy-pelosi-speaker-mccarthy-election-cnntv/index.html
Speaker Pelosi: I’m proud of the Democrats, but what have we learned in the last few weeks? – Rep. Pelesi says he’s recovering
Speaker Pelosi said she was proud of the Democratic candidates, both incumbents seeking reelection and their challengers, and that the red wave would turn into a tiny trickle.
“But that trauma is intensified by the ridiculous disrespectful attitude that the Republicans – and there’s nobody disassociating themselves from the horrible response that they gave to it,” she said.
“Each day takes us closer to recovery. It’s a long haul, but he’s doing well, comforted by the good wishes and especially the prayers of so many people throughout the country,” she said. “We thank them all for that. There were many who said they would vote because this has gone too far.