[Breaking] 2 'Mc' Retired. After McHenry, now McCarthy
2 Ally of Trump retired. Not a good sign for GOP for Election 2024
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Just 22.5 hours ago that Patrick Timothy McHenry announced his retirement, no longer seek reelection for 2024, former Speaker Kevin Owen McCarthy retire. The ousted speaker is resigning from the House at the end of the year, according to an op-ed he wrote for the Wall Street Journal. He even cited ‘my next chapter.’
October 2nd, 2023, 68 days ago, When GOP Matthew Martin Rosendale Sr. [רוזנדהל, Rosendaël, Roosendaal, Rosenthalis] giving a vote to ousted Kevin Owen McCarthy, he’s 8TH VOTE against the speaker, lock the final kick, to ousted McCarthy or officially removed from the speakership.
Kevin Owen McCarthy has had the shortest Speakership since Michael C. Kerr (December 1875-August 1876). He died of tuberculosis. Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi served 2,920 days as Speaker. Kevin Owen McCarthy lasted 270 days as Speaker. That's 27 scaramuccis or 0.093 of a Pelosi. 216-210 McCarthy is removed from office.
For the first time in history, the House has deposed its speaker.
California Republican recently indicated that he's been going through stages of grief since his ouster and did not want to make a rash decision about his future.
"If I decide to run again, I have to know in my heart I'm giving 110%. I have to know that I want to do that," McCarthy said recently at the New York Times' DealBook Summit. "I also have to know if I'm going to walk away, that I'm going to be fine with walking away."
"If you just got thrown out of speaker, you'd go through different stages, would you not?" he added. "I want to know that it's the right thing to do. And then if I'm walking away from something that I spent two decades at, I don't want to look back and say I made an emotional decision."
McCarthy, who was elected to Congress in 2006, held the top post for nine months before a deal he made to secure the speakership led to his downfall.
McCarthy's fight to win the gavel — which included 15 rounds of votes — foreshadowed the limits of his power over a fractured Republican Party with a slim majority.
Among the concessions McCarthy made to win the support of far-right Republican holdouts, he agreed that a single member could trigger a no-confidence vote. That came back to haunt him when fellow Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida introduced a resolution to remove him from the leadership role after he relied heavily on the votes of House Democrats to temporarily avert a government shutdown in September. Eight Republicans voted with all Democrats to remove McCarthy, making it the first time in U.S. history a House speaker was ousted by such a motion.
His successor, House Speaker Mike Johnson, has made similar decisions since taking over, including relying on Democrats to avert a shutdown in November, but has so far avoided McCarthy's fate.