Thursday, September 21, 2023

GET ME REWRITE: Freedom Caucus Crazies show off their dummy Kevin McCarthy


Headline:  New York Times, 9/21/2023
Just hours after Mr. McCarthy signaled he had won over some of the holdouts and was ready to move forward, a handful of Republicans broke with their party to oppose the routine measure that would allow the military appropriations bill to come to the House floor for debate, joining with Democrats to defeat it. 
It was a major black eye for Mr. McCarthy, who has on multiple occasions admonished his members in private for taking the rare step of bringing down such votes, known as rules, proposed by their own party — a previously unheard-of tactic.

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