The ousted House speaker let loose on fellow Republicans and painted an ugly picture of the state of affairs for whoever succeeds him.
On Oct. 3, the Republican-led House ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy from the speakership, in a charge led by a minority of his own caucus. after he was ousted as speaker Tuesday. But he seemed to have a message for whoever it is: Good luck.
“If you can always count on the other party to vote in a bloc against it, then you’re allowing four to five people to control whatever,” McCarthy said. “So it doesn’t matter even if you have 96 percent [of Republicans]. So that is not a government that works; that is chaotic.“I don’t think that rule is good for the institution, but apparently I’m the only one.”
It was around this point that McCarthy began turning to the eight Republicans who voted to oust him. He mentioned four by name, suggesting they had not only betrayed him, but betrayed both the truth and conservatism — if they ever truly adhered to conservatism in the first place.Gaetz? He was the guy McCarthy said promised to vote for him for speaker on the 14th of 15 ballots cast in January but then reneged. “It was personal,” McCarthy said of Gaetz’s spearheading his ouster.
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