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[h1]McCarthys Impeachment Theater[/h1] The speaker is pinned between pro-impeachment hardliners who want to shut down the government, vulnerable moderates whose fate will determine control of Congress, and maybe the outcome of the 2024 election, too.
[link=https://puck.news/mccarthys-impeachment-theater/]Tina Nguyen[/link]:
Yes, it would be easy for Gaetz to initiate the process of snatching the gavel from McCarthy. But the problem, as the Republican source put it, is preventing McCarthy from grabbing it right back. John Boehners resignation as Speaker in 2015 was prompted not just by a [link=https://politicaldictionary.com/words/motion-to-vacate/]motion to vacate[/link] vote, but by the fact that there was a viable, vote-getting challenger waiting in the wings: Paul Ryan, who would eventually become Speaker himself. McCarthy has no such threat to his supremacy, unless Gaetz and four colleagues want to throw in with the Democrats.
Said a GOP source: If the inquiry is not enough, and they motion to vacate Kevin, then hell say, Ok, go ahead. Then you know what? Someones gonna renominate McCarthy and were gonna do 20 rounds again, just like last time. Thatd be the biggest waste of fucking time youve ever seen.[/QUOTE]The threat to vacate is mostly a hollow one until a challenger steps up
