Kevin McCarthy's run as Speaker is finished. Is Matt Gaetz a villain or a hero? By Liz Peek

[Free Vulcan]

Yeppers and he got what he rightfully deserved.

Not totally sure of  Gaetz's motives but the fact was McCarthy was acting like a little diapered turd burning the house down with his antics.

Gaetz should have went into this with a plan, but if we do get Scalise and especially Jordan he and we might come out of this on the upside.

[Right_in_Virginia]

My first thought is prima donna. Basically made a spectacle of himself to seal up base support.

Spectacle?  McCarthy agreed to giving only one member (vs. a majority of members) the authority to call for a vacate the chair vote if he didn't keep his promises on regular order, single subject budget bills, no more continuing resolutions, and a commission to reduce the debt, to name a few.  One man had what McCarthy dismissed ---- the guts to exercise that authority.

BTW, when did "sealing up base support" of your constituents by doing what they voted for you to do become a negative?  When did rolling with the Uniparty become the preferred expectation?

[goatprairie]

Gaetz is a hero to himself, and that’s all that matters… to him.

For the rest of the GOP, that fiasco simply shows the Repubs are more interested in forming circular firing squads than governing.  Truly pathetic.

No love here for McCarthy, but what will a grandstander like Gaetz to for his party and the country?
From what I've seen the only thing Matt Gaetz is interested in boosting is himself.