Update:There is no deal. Let the voting begin.
Big news out of the legacy media. There might be a deal today, or maybe not. There was an agreement last night, but it has to be reviewed.
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), one of 20 House Republicans who voted against Rep. Kevin McCarthy for Speaker, expects a written offer between McCarthy and his opponents to be completed Thursday night, Punchbowl News reported. He doesn’t think the deal is closed, however.
Allegedly, the 20 rebels got everything they wanted. That’s according to left-wing media and Fox.
THE DEAL IS NIGH
Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman reported that a deal between McCarthy and his opponents “is close.” Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Patrick McHenry (R-NC) have reportedly been leading negotiations with McCarthy.
/2 Norman says there’s an agreement in writing as he heads into Emmer’s office. He’s been asked to look at it
— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) January 5, 2023
Sherman said the GOP believe they’re reaching a tipping point. A big bloc either moves, or may stall permanently.
McCarthy backers, Reps McHenry, Hill, Westerman, Grave, Jordan, and Reschenthaler, are negotiating with Reps. Roy, Perry, and Donalds, among others.
The breakthrough reports about a deal being on the table to secure McCarthy’s speakership come amid a long day of negotiations, concessions, and multiple failed Speaker votes.
Sherman said they’re waiting for a call where the larger conference agrees to the terms. The call hasn’t come yet.
Jordan said he hoped this will do it, but “we’ll see.”
THE PROBLEM OF MAKING A DEAL WITH KEVIN
The problem with McCarthy is he’s no conservative and has repeatedly supported Democrats. McCarthy passed every funding bill with Democrat support; voted for vax mandates for the military; $100B for Ukraine; used Medicare to fund the USPS; drafted women; J6 Committee; DC as the 51st State; amnesty for DACA; and more. If he becomes Speaker, he better cough up a lot of concessions.
IT’S NOT A DEAL, BUT ROUND ONE?
However, Rep. Ralph Norman said they have to review the framework. “This is round one” and “we still have a ways to go.” He said they will probably go through the weekend to finalize the deal.
Scott Perry tweeted late Thursday that they need time to assess. “We’re at a Reagan moment ”trust but verify.'” “The devil is in the details, and we’ll take our time to ensure it’s right, not easy. One way or another, the status quo must go.”
There is another problem. Some Republican members are out of town today.
Here are the 20 holdouts that Dan Crenshaw thinks are “terrorists” and “enemies”. By the way, Crenshaw will chair the Homeland Security committee under McCarthy.
Andy Biggs (AZ), Dan Bishop (NC), Lauren Boebert (CO), Michael Cloud (TX), Andrew Clyde (GA), Matt Gaetz (FL), Bob Good (VA), Paul Gosar (AZ), Andy Harris (MD), Mary Miller (IL), Ralph Norman (SC), Scott Perry (PA), Matt Rosendale (MT), Chip Roy (TX), Byron Donalds (FL). Included in the twenty are newly-elected representatives Josh Brecheen (OK), Eli Crane (AZ), Andy Ogles (TN), Anna Paulina Luna (FL), Keith Self (TX).
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The ones that are flipping receive applause from the McCarthyites and show their pleasure in acceptance of that applause. There’s a certain emotional satisfaction when being accepted by a majority, so they will feel good about themselves. But What will their constituents think of them come next voting cycle.
Yep. Here in Flyover Country it’s 11:42 am. And it’s all over. The holdouts have caved. At only 90 votes in the House at this moment, only two have held out against McCarthy, while quite a few have caved.
It’s over. We’ve been had … once again.
There are at the moment 6 not for McCarthy. That means he Still doesn’t have the required votes.
The Republicans in the House surely must think we are all idiots. McCarthy and the rest speak about passing an agenda. This hearkens back to “repealing” Obamacare. If Republicans controlled the Senate, then maybe, IF they were willing to really use the purse. But without Senate support, and Biden in the White House, there isn’t a chance in hell any… Read more »
Thank you. Bannon is having on people in the negotiations stating there is no deal.
Faux News will be reading scripts calling conservatives insurrectionists. Faux News only has conservatives on (Boebert) to badger and talk over them.
I know Faux News viewers, they were at first fooled, but wised up.
McCarthy and his followers are Liberal Communist Swamp Creatures without backbones. They are for the most part Anti-Trumpers while over 75% of Republicans are American First Patriots who support the Conservatives and President Trump. According to the voting, by the Numbers, 90% of House Republicans are out of step with the super majority of Republican voters. They simply don’t represent… Read more »
The “deal” supposedly does not include an agreement to investigate the Bidens. That flaw makes it a bad deal.
If McCarthy makes a deal with the 20 terrorists (sarc), he already knows out to get our of it! That’s what serpents do!