Conservatives feasted on the carcass of McCarthy’s authority like vultures, trying to exact steeper costs from him in exchange for votes. On Monday, a right-wing group that backs extremist Republicans waded into the debate. (via The ReidOut Blog)
McCarthy failed to secure enough votes to be named speaker when House members cast their first ballots today, sending the speaker vote to a second round for the first time in a century. And then he failed in the second round as well. And the third round. The process will continue until someone is able to cobble together enough votes to win a majority.
Many conservatives have feasted on the carcass of McCarthy’s authority like vultures at high noon by trying to exact steeper costs from him in exchange for their votes. On Monday, the right-wing Club for Growth waded into the debate with a list of its own demands that closely aligned with some of the most conservative members of Congress.
The Club for Growth, which releases annual scorecards purporting to grade lawmakers’ conservatism, urged House members to vote against any nominee for speaker who doesn’t agree to these demands. To me, the most interesting of these demands is the group’s mandate that the Congressional Leadership Fund, a McCarthy-linked super PAC that seeks to elect Republicans to the House, be “prohibited from spending money or providing grants to any super PAC to engage in open Republican primaries or against any Republican incumbent.”on Monday, that demand “reflected a top grievance of conservative hard-liners in the House who are irate that Mr.
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