Renee Parsons<\/p>\n
Although the Republican party lost its soul to the Uniparty many years ago, the removal of Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker is nothing less than a struggle for its remnants of liberty and freedom; if not an existential element in the definitive struggle to preserve the foundations of the United States of America.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Given the latest epistle from those higher ups in the House of Representatives, the news that, upon reflection, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy needs to be recalled from enforced retirement and reinstalled immediately in order to resolve the Hamas attack on Israel.\u00a0 <\/span>The dilemma reminds US taxpayers of its gift of a missile-defense Iron Dome system, estimated by the CRS in excess of $1 billion, and exemplifies how the US allowed itself to accumulate a $33 Trillion debt in response to endless military adventures in order to preserve its hegemony.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Nevertheless, the House Uniparty response of a McCarthy reinstatement is little more than typical rationale of a morally bankrupt power elite which continues to be consistently out of touch with the Republican base.\u00a0 <\/span>It took the Presidential campaign and administration of Donald Trump to wake up that constituency to the incompetence and corrupt nature of the mainstream Republican party who prefer Democratic socialistic policies. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/p>\n In early 2023, McCarthy announced establishment of the\u00a0 <\/span>Protect the House 2024<\/span><\/a> political action committee during a soiree at the Capitol Hill Club doling out $8 million to newly elected Republican House Members with $4.7 million coming from member-to-member donations. \u00a0 <\/span>Focusing on its newest Members was a politically smart move as to assure their support for the caucus agenda as well as for McCarthy personally who had just been elected Speaker in an unprecedented contest.<\/span><\/p>\n To reiterate, McCarthy\u2019s ascension was based on a power-sharing agreement made in January with The Twenty<\/span><\/a> in order to secure the Speaker\u2019s seat.\u00a0 <\/span>The agreement came as the result of a round of fifteen separate votes determining whether McCarthy had the \u2018mojo\u2019 to be Speaker in a new environment; as each vote brought him closer to accepting new standards of accountability for a Republican House.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The agreement included term limits and release of the January 6<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> tapes as well as procedural reform including a deliberative appropriation process<\/span><\/a> to re-establish an annual budget process that would allow single-subject line-by-line consideration of twelve federal funding bills in conformance with the\u00a0 <\/span>Congressional Budget and Impoundment\u00a0 <\/span>Act of 1974<\/span><\/a><\/span>. \u00a0<\/span><\/span> It is the appropriations process that fund projects Congress has already authorized except when the administrative state appropriates funds for Congressionally unauthorized\u00a0 <\/span>projects.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Initially the Speaker\u2019s agreement appeared to function well until soon after McCarthy\u2019s return from Israel in April. \u00a0 <\/span>It was at that point, the debt ceiling became a major point of contention as House efforts were focused on no increase in the debt ceiling and substantive budget cuts as a Senate coalition<\/span><\/a> announced it was in sync with House efforts.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n With a $32 Trillion debt, a $2 Trillion interest payment and a trillion dollar shortfall staring Congress in the face, McCarthy\u2019s minions, Rep. McHenry (NC) and Garrett (La) secretly negotiated with the Biden Administration to raise the debt ceiling without a cap on spending; thereby undercutting members of his own caucus and members of the Senate who were looking for the House which controls the \u2018power of the purse\u2019<\/i> to lead the way. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n As the debt approached $33 Trillion, the House voted in support of the debt ceiling 217-215<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>with no cap and sparse Federal spending cuts back to 2022 levels. Four Republicans voted No: Reps.<\/span> Andy Biggs (AZ), Tim Burchett (TN), Ken Buck (CO) and Matt Gaetz (FL) \u2014 while all the Democrats oppose any iota of a budget cut as unacceptable.<\/span> That vote was accompanied by a promise that single-subject review of twelve appropriation bills would occur by the September 30<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>end of the fiscal year. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n After an extravagant six week Congressional break, the Speaker\u2019s promise of separate appropriation bills was broken when no single subject bills\u00a0 <\/span>were ready for prime-time as the Speaker pushed a Continuing Resolution which was approved\u00a0 <\/span>335 – 91 with 126 mostly Red State Republicans voting Yes<\/span><\/a>. The stopgap has a November 17 deadline by which the remaining appropriation bills need to be finalized.<\/span><\/p>\n From there, another fly in the ointment surfaced as McCarthy again made a private agreement with the Biden Administration to continue Ukraine funding with an extra $80 Billion on top of the $115 Billion already expended.\u00a0 <\/span>Additional Ukraine funding came\u00a0 <\/span>with no attempt to deny the collusion and no expression of concern to stave off impending fiscal doom. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Be early October it was clear that the January agreement was no longer relevant and in response to a contemptuous Uniparty, eight Republicans<\/span><\/a> stepped forward to introduce a Motion to Vacate<\/span><\/a> the Chair with 208 Democrats for a 216 – 210 vote\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a> to remove McCarthy.\u00a0 <\/span>Initially McCarthy announced that he would not seek<\/span><\/a> re-election; then announced he would remain a Member of the House which immediately sends up, excuse the pun, red flags.<\/span><\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/p>\n With a reputation for being a prodigious fund raiser, it would be na\u00efve to believe that part of McCarthy\u2019s allure to secure votes as Speaker is unrelated to his control of the Protect the House 2024<\/span><\/a> political action website and his ability to reward<\/span><\/a> his favorite House Members who dutifully follow the prevailing narrative.\u00a0 <\/span>For instance, whether certain Members earned a reward for voting against the Motion to Vacate.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>As a public agency, a visit to the FEC filings easily reveals who has already received tainted money.<\/span><\/p>\n In a nutshell, while perusing Disbursement<\/span><\/a> entries are interesting, what is noteworthy is which House caucus Republicans do not merit a \u2018disbursement\u2019 from the Speaker while the \u201c<\/span>Kevin McCarthy for Congress\u2019 website awarded itself approximately $1.8 million<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span>In other words, the Speaker liberally took care of himself while a portion of the Republican caucus came up short. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n One part of the FEC Data collection includes \u201cSpending by the Numbers<\/span><\/a>\u201d which identifies top Senate and House 2024 candidates based on how much they have spent:\u00a0 <\/span>top Senators included\u00a0 <\/span>Ted Cruz(Tex), Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Rick Scott (Fla), all of whom are running for reelection against well-funded Democrats.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Identified as the Biggest House Spender<\/span><\/a> was Guess Who? \u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Cal.) is listed at $5,594,271<\/span>, followed by Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise (La.) at $4, 219,818, Rep. Marjorie Greene (Ga.) at $2,757,302 and Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan at $2,616,891 (Ohio).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n It would be a massive oversight to not at least mention McCarthy\u2019s more devious tendency to sabotage and undermine<\/span><\/a> potential House candidates who believe in a different political narrative.\u00a0 <\/span>Worthy candidates whose narrative would threaten globalist hold on the Republican caucus and otherwise influence Republican politics in favor of the America First philosophy. \u00a0 <\/span>That history is so voluminous it deserves special attention elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n *** <\/span><\/p>\n To add to the current drama, forty five predominately Uniparty House Republicans signed a letter<\/span><\/a> grumbling about the Motion to Vacate McCarthy referring to him as \u201cone of the most accomplished Republican leaders in modern history\u201d <\/i>yet offering no recognition of McCarthy\u2019s budget finagling with the Biden Administration as a mere $33 Trillion debt of no significance.\u00a0 <\/span>Absent from the letter was any concern that the country is on a fiscal brink of insolvency with a fiscal default on the horizon \u2013 and no suggestion as how McCarthy would relieve the impending catastrophe. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n There is also another rumored letter with twenty signatures in support of removal of the Motion to Vacate language which is standard as found in Jefferson’s Manual<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>, written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the House as guidance for its parliamentary procedure in 1837.\u00a0 <\/span>It reads as \u201cA Speaker may be removed at the will of the House, and a Speaker pro tempore appointed.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n If, in fact, there is a Motion to remove the Motion to Vacate or to reinstate McCarthy, it will be especially fascinating to observe how the original Twenty will vote since fifteen of them chose to retain McCarthy.\u00a0 <\/span>There are another twenty or thirty House Members who consider themselves to be independent, forward thinkers who frequently stray across the line<\/span>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n