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Suranis wrote: ↑Wed Oct 04, 2023 11:02 pm Also, it's illuminating that a Republican rep admits that Gaetz showed him revenge porn videos, and yet the entire Caucus did sod all about it.

bill_g wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:25 am They wanted to keep their majority.

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:41 am

bill_g wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:25 am They wanted to keep their majority.

It's so slim they have to.

bill_g wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:51 am

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:41 am

bill_g wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:25 am They wanted to keep their majority.

It's so slim they have to.

Keeping him around is like having a shit sandwich in your pocket - it's gonna get on you no matter how carefully you wrap it, and the smell will bring attention To You.

During an online fundraiser, Matt Gaetz denounced the Biden impeachment effort as unserious

Katherine Doyle
Fri, October 6, 2023 at 1:00 PM GMT+2·4 min read

WASHINGTON — Days before Rep. Matt Gaetz led an effort to oust Kevin McCarthy as House speaker, Gaetz and Rep. Matt Rosendale, a fellow Freedom Caucus member, denounced as a political stunt Republicans’ high-stakes effort to impeach President Joe Biden, according to a video obtained by NBC News.

At an invitation-only fundraiser held over Zoom last week, Gaetz, R-Fla., and Rosendale, who is said to be plotting another Senate run next year, heaped skepticism on the probe.

“I don’t believe that we are endeavoring upon a legitimate impeachment of Joe Biden,” Gaetz told Steve Bannon, a podcaster and onetime political adviser to former President Donald Trump, who was moderating the discussion.

politicians Matt Gaetz Matt Rosendale profile (Jack Gruber / USA Today Network via Reuters file)
“They’re trying to engage in a, like, ‘forever war’ of impeachment,” Gaetz said. “And like many of our forever wars, it will drag on forever and end in a bloody draw.”

As they fielded questions from high-dollar conservative donors, Gaetz and Rosendale were just days away from moving to end McCarthy’s speakership — and tipping the Republican caucus into its own protracted battle over who will lead the conference.




https://www.yahoo.com/news/during-onlin ... 00805.html
(original: NBC News)

Dave from down under wrote: ↑Sat Oct 07, 2023 8:28 am https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-07/ ... /102942442

The Matt Gaetz-Kevin McCarthy feud that caused chaos in congress — and how it could now help Putin

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is extraordinarily unpopular in his home state according to a new poll conducted by Florida Atlantic University that found that just 20.5% of voters approve and a whopping 56.9% of voters disapprove of Gaetz’s performance in Congress.

The survey of 946 adults has a margin of error of 3.2% and was conducted between October 27 and November 11. Even more disappointingly for Gaetz, he performs poorly with Republicans as well as Democrats and independents. Nearly as many members of his own party disapprove of Gaetz (36.3%) as approve (36.6%) of him, while independents disapprove by a margin of 53.8$-21.1%.

Volkonski wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:14 pm Hope that's true of the primary voters in Gaetz's district.

Talking on a December 3 episode of The Charlie Kirk Show podcast, the Florida representative hit out at what he viewed as House Republicans' "self-mutilation" over the expulsion of now former New York Rep. George Santos.

Santos was expelled from the House in a historic 311-114 vote on Friday that cleared the two-thirds threshold to pass.



Gaetz claimed the vote to expel Santos, who has protested his innocence, left House Republicans vulnerable and speculated how possible departures in the future could end their majority.

"Let's do the math here, Charlie. We have a four-vote majority, right? Now we've kicked out George Santos we have a three-vote majority," he told host Charlie Kirk.

"Congressman Bill Johnson of Ohio has taken a college university presidency, that could knock us down to two and I don't think [former House Speaker] Kevin McCarthy is sticking around long. Every image of his office shows he's packing things up in boxes, so we could be down to a one-seat majority.

"We've got a bunch of these octogenarians in our conference. If God forbid any of them were to cross the rainbow bridge, we would be in a situation where we could literally lose the majority because we were so eager to throw George Santos out before being convicted.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 11:46 pm I don’t know if you are being facetious, but crossing the rainbow bridge is dying. Expiring.

For puppies.

Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski wrote: Gaetz says that Kevin McCarthy leaving now shows that he is not a team player like Nancy Pelosi.