Gaetz’s Rebellion Goes Haywire: MTG Rips Florida Rep over Threat to Hold Up GOP Business for Months

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Gaetz’s Rebellion Goes Haywire: MTG Rips Florida Rep over Threat to Hold Up GOP Business for Months so He Can Vent About McCarthy

Ashley Oliver 19 Dec 2022 Washington, DC

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said Monday he supports bringing Republican House business to a halt until as late as March next year if it means electing someone besides House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to be speaker.

Gaetz, one of five outspoken opponents of McCarthy, told Charlie Kirk in an interview he would rather wait weeks and have “sort of a turbulent takeoff” than have McCarthy be speaker.

“I’m saying we could see the cherry blossoms bloom and not have a speaker. I hope it doesn’t come to that,” Gaetz said, in reference to the popular flower in D.C. that blooms annually around the end of March.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a vocal proponent of McCarthy’s bid for speaker, conveyed her disapproval of Gaetz’s remarks in a statement online, emphasizing a slate of investigations Republicans plan to begin at the start of next year and noting Americans would not “wait for the cherry blossoms to bloom.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/19/gaetzs-rebellion-goes-haywire-mtg-rips-florida-rep-over-threat-to-hold-up-gop-business-for-months-so-he-can-vent-about-mccarthy/

[catfish1957]

No...MTG has just endorsed the McCarthy/McConnell capitualtion machine.

She can't take a bathroom break  without consulting Trump first.

[Right_in_Virginia]

No...MTG has just endorsed the McCarthy/McConnell capitualtion machine.

She can't take a bathroom break  without consulting Trump first.

This is a very inaccurate portrayal of MTG.  She's actually been out front on this and is very clear about why she supports McCarthy.  So  has Jim Jordan, among other conservatives.