House conservatives are calling for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to take a harder line with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), arguing that the California Republican should threaten to withhold bringing Senate-led bipartisan bills to the floor next year unless McConnell demands his conference tank the bipartisan omnibus bill.
The spending fight is so crucial to House conservatives they are demanding McCarthy "declare war" on McConnell-backed bills if Senate Republicans sign off on a major funding bill pushed by Democrats in the final weeks of their House majority.
Conservative lawmakers in the House have repeatedly called for a stop-gap bill that funds the government into next year, a move proponents argue would provide Republicans more leverage in negotiations to cut spending in certain areas and provide more funding for issues such as border security since they will hold the majority in the lower chamber. McConnell has said there's “widespread agreement” between leaders in both chambers that an omnibus is needed before the end of the month.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/declare-war-conservatives-demand-mccarthy-play-hardball-mcconnell--------------
Soooooooo, the way I see it is that this is a fortuitous event. This is a test that can be put to McCarthy to see if he's serious about being speaker and standing up to the Rats.
If he fails and a Rat gets Speaker, then we can flush out the RINO's and see who will stand their ground.
Frankly, I don't care. It is poop or get off the pot from here on out. It's been that for awhile now.
