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Breaking Down How Kevin McCarthy Was Voted Out of The Speakership · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, well here only Alex Garrett
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  Podcast Network. In my haste to be really opinionated about this emotional I still
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  call Matt Gates a lizard man. I mean, I'm not taking that back.
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  What he did yesterday was despicable. But you know what, you know
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  what I think, Ret McCarthy or Speaker McCarthy, Former Speaker McCarthy, right,
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  had to see this coming. When you make concessions the very first day
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  you are a speaker, or even to get the votes to become speaker,
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  where only one person in that house has to can make emotion to pretty much
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  kick you out of the speakership, you don't see that being a problem.
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  A few months later, the concessions that Speaker McCarthy made led to yesterday and
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  led to Saturday when Gates actually started to file the motion, filed the motion,
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  and the voting happened. And now we don't have a speaker. Forget
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  this a week a week what they do go on vacation for a week.
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  What is this? We have an interim acting speaker. Pat McHenry Well,
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  I guess slammed the gabble down after closing session and frustration because he doesn't want
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  the position. But my thing is a Gates is an idiot. B I
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  didn't really extrapolate how this all came about because maybe you don't know. Maybe
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  Zach Miller is right. I needed to educate people more that this was brewing
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  in January. I would say Saturday, but this was brewing back in January.
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  Fifteen rounds to begin with to get McCarthy elected, and the concessions he
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  made, the biggest one being only one, not a majority, not even
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  a small minority. One person in the House vote him out or file emotion
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  to get out of everybody else on board to vote him out. But that's
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  a lot of power for one person of a what four hundred plus members of
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  Congress, that's a lot of power. So Speaker, former Speaker McCarthy,
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  you then complained yesterday, why wasn't this the majority? Why was that you
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  allowed one person when you made that concession? It didn't have to be Matt
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  Gates. It just happened to be mac Gates because he's just out for himself.
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  It didn't have to be Gates, but it of course would be him
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  because he's had issues with McCarthy for a long time. But but to then
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  complain, hey, why didn't a majority save me? Well, why do
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  you allow one person even make a motion to do all of this? Why
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  did you concede so much? And I feel for Speaker McCarthy because I think
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  he was trying to do the right thing here by going across the aisle and
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  averting a government shutdown. As I said yesterday, American government workers are Americans
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  and their people too, and McCarthy knew the drasticness of a government shutdown,
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  so they averted it. But then to go on at seven thirty last night
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  and then complained about, well, why didn't you know? Why wasn't this
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  done a majority in this and the other and why didn't the House democrats?
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  House Democrats don't like you, dude, They don't want They probably liked the
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  ships in your back by the Republican Party? Are you kidding me? And
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  then you complain about the minority versus majority, wrote, well, look again,
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  this concession that was made in January has led to this. And then
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  my final point before I signed off for UH today on the one up feature
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  anyway, I now see a if not immediate assuon resignation of McCarthy. I
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  see him resigning. How can you sit at the lunch table with fellow Republicans,
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  a lot of them who probably voted you out. How could you even
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  go to the house cafeteria the same ever again? And then to be from
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  our perspective, the onlooker's perspective, embarrassed the way that you know, being
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  voted out as speaker is an embarrassing thing, especially when your first speaker ever
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  to be voted out has to be an angry feeling, and the optics of
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  it is it's embarrassing, And it's also embarrassing on Gates's part. And I
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  think he's going to be hopefully something done with him too for even floating this
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  idea, for it to be a reality. But now you're seeing calls for
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  Trump, you're seeing calls for Scalise, you're seeing calls for Jordan. I
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  just do not see you. And I'm gonna make this prediction before and I
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  don't think anybody else has yet, I'm gonna make this prediction. Kevin McCarthy
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  will not be a congress member congressman at all in the near future. He
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  may very well resign, and I think I just can't see him staying on
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  to partake in the vote to replace him. I just cannot see it.
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  But imagine if all this was a push against Trump as speaker, an idea
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  he himself has floated, by the way, that would be even more chaotic
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  in the House, be a media circus. Forget about the New York trial
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  going on right now, where the judge is smiling, be a New Yorker.
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  It'd be a circus. If he decided if he got nominated and elected
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  as Speaker of the House, albeit he might have some great ideas to inject
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  into the House, it'd be a circus. But I only can say this,
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  Kevin McCarthy reap what he showed when he conceded to having one member of
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  Congress, any one of them, be able to make the motion to kick
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  him out of speaker. And though it's under really awful premise of oh my
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  god, by partisanship, what a terrible idea. Oh my god, working
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  with the Democrats across the island get a deal. Don What a terrible idea
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  is it? Though? Was it? Though? That's the hill pun intended
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  that this faction of Republicans that wanted macarthy out are going to die on That
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  means they don't want by partisanship, you understand that right. And without by
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  partisanship, how can the government function? All right, I'm done for now.
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  I got a cool off a little bit. We'll be back at some
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  point on the Alex Garret podcast Network. Thanks for listening. Continue to do
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  so. Alex G podcast on Instagram and Twitter. Alex G NYC one is
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  my main vein, if you will alex G NYC one, Instagram and Twitter.
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  I kind of like having all of it align. It's easier to find.
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  And we'll talk to you soon. But yes, Kevin McCarthy, we'll
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  resign sooner than later, mark my words, or I'll just eat crow.
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  I guess, I don't know. Have a great day. We'll talk to
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  you soon.