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Chaos In The House! Republican Party’s History & Founding Principles
Trump Emulated Jackson — Democrat’s first president, not Lincoln — the Republican’s first president
The 118th Congress convened this week, on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. But the Republican-dominated U.S. House of Representatives has failed to show even a semblance of proper function. No business has been conducted for the last three days — because we have no Speaker of the House. And as of the recording of this week’s podcast episode on the two-year anniversary of the Jan. 6th attack on Congress, Mr. Kevin McCarthy has failed to win the Speakership after 11 rounds of voting.
Hopefully, by the time you listen to this podcast, our country will have a Speaker of the House so that U.S. Representatives can be sworn in… so they can legislate… so they can finally conduct the people’s business.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, a Republican supporter of Mr. McCarthy described the opposition to McCarthy’s speakership as a “temper tantrum.” The Republican opposition to McCarthy’s speakership, composed of some 20 Representatives, consider themselves “conservative purists”. But the New York Times explains that their agenda “is mostly to defund, disrupt and dismantle government, not to participate in it”.
