There is some Republican discontent that Democrats in the House dared to stick to their principles in a bloc more unified than Republicans when the question recently came up of whether Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) would continue as House Speaker. (He was booted) House Democrats aren’t having it.
One of those who complained from the Right was Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.). “People over politics? Get real,” he posted in response to some comments from House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). “You aligned yourself with Matt Gaetz to upend the institution and seek political gain in the process. You could have put the country first by refusing to partake in this fraud.” More potently, there’s the fact that McCarthy apparently didn’t even pursue any kind of common ground with Democrats to help secure his stint as Speaker! Do the Republicans making these complaints expect Dems to just buck the basic expectations of following their organizational and ideological interests to save Kevin McCarthy’s job?
“Your majority can’t govern and you have done nothing in 9 months to find bipartisan solutions, instead passing extreme bill after extreme bill (that you voted for) to deny abortion access, discriminate against LGBQT+, and cut essential funding. Fix your own damn house @lawler4ny,” Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-N.Y.) said on X (formerly Twitter) in response to his fellow New Yorker.
The same applies to the recent delays in securing government funding. House GOP leadership eventually put a cleaner extension on the floor of past approvals for federal funding, but before that point, with not much time left before what would have been a shutdown, Republicans put up for a vote a continuing resolution that would have imposed cuts of 30 percent across much of the federal government, impacting benefits and support for vulnerable Americans ranging from mothers to individuals struggling with addiction. Negative impacts also loomed, should the plan have been implemented, in law enforcement, transportation safety, and beyond — and nearly 200 House Republicans supported this!
Your majority can’t govern and you have done nothing in 9 months to find bipartisan solutions, instead passing extreme bill after extreme bill (that you voted for) to deny abortion access, discriminate against LGBQT+, and cut essential funding.
Fix your own damn house @lawler4ny https://t.co/Hqtyf0O2FD
— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) October 4, 2023
