{"id":39278,"date":"2023-09-22T08:41:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39278"},"modified":"2023-09-22T08:41:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:41:23","slug":"expelling-the-turds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/09\/22\/expelling-the-turds\/","title":{"rendered":"Expelling The Turds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Sherman of <em><strong>Punchbowl News<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFucking chaos\u201d \u2026 \u201ca total shit show\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two texts I\u2019ve gotten from inside the House Republican leadership in the last few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JakeSherman\/status\/1704900052894777649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It occasionally crosses my mind that a sagacious Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) might try to bring his caucus to heel by expelling the leading troublemakers, such as Rep Gaetz (R-FL), not from the caucus, but from the <em>House of Representatives<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And then maybe boot them out of the Republican Party, if he can manage it. Probably not, but I&#8217;m no expert on Republican Party rules.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that McCarthy&#8217;s operating on a knife&#8217;s edge, but he could try to strike a deal with the Democrats that allows him to retain his treasured Speaker&#8217;s position, while implementing a discipline that will smart more than a little for the people making trouble.<\/p>\n<p>If he follows up with a remark about the House being for adults only, he might take the edge of the rest of the Freedom Caucus by slowly, inevitably booting them out.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been actually expecting this, as the procedures seem both slow and would result in a warning to the targets. Still, McCarthy might make a go of it because otherwise he may end up with a reputation as the worst Speaker ever.<\/p>\n<p>Even beating the execrable and incompetent Rep Newt Gingrich (R-GA) of nearly thirty years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News: \u201cFucking chaos\u201d \u2026 \u201ca total shit show\u201d Two texts I\u2019ve gotten from inside the House Republican leadership in the last few minutes. &mdash; Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) September 21, 2023 It occasionally crosses my mind that a sagacious Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) might try to bring \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/09\/22\/expelling-the-turds\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39279,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39278\/revisions\/39279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}