Tom McClintock Trolls Matt Gaetz, Nancy Mace, and Other Anti-McCarthy Republicans in Biting Letter
Paul Bois 22 Oct 2023
Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) issued a scathing letter mocking Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and other anti-Kevin McCarthy Republicans after they pledged to face censure and punishment in the hopes of getting their desired House Speaker elected.
As Breitbart News reported, seven House Republicans, including Matt Gaetz, pleaded with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) holdouts that they would gladly “accept censure, suspension, or removal from the Conference” if it meant having Jordan as speaker. The pledge failed and the House still has no Speaker weeks after Matt Gaetz led his successful coup. In a bitingly satirical letter released on Saturday, McClintock went scorched earth by characterizing Gaetz and his ilk as false martyrs.
“Your letter of October 20, in which you graciously offer to martyr yourselves as long as you can get your way, is perhaps the most selfless act in American history,” wrote McClintock. “I was certain that our Republican colleagues ‘who refuse to vote’ with the Republican majority would have been inspired by your stirring example of party discipline and loyalty to ‘vote with the team,’ as you so eloquently phrased it.”
“I was frankly stunned when they did not. I do not understand why a handful of our fellow Republicans couldn’t see the simple fairness of the principle to which you have been so unswerving in your devotion: ‘heads-I-win-tails-you-lose,'” he continued. “We should have been moved by your willingness to suffer ‘censure, suspension, or removal from the conference’ to enforce your personal preferences on the overwhelming majority of your unenlightened colleagues.”
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