{"id":135748,"date":"2023-01-07T10:58:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T15:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=135748"},"modified":"2023-01-07T10:58:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T15:58:39","slug":"habemas-papam-well-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135748","title":{"rendered":"Habemas Papam… well, Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Finaly, after 15 rounds, the election for Speaker of the House is over. Kevin McCarthy,, California’s biggest GOP fundraiser, was elected late Friday night after s slew of previous hold-outs from the rightist Freeedom Caucus decided to vote for him. One of his first acts was to swear in all the Congresscritters Saturday at oh-dark-thirty – I am sure that is analogous to their normal dealings, but why press it.<\/p>\n

This bodes poorly for the Republicans in upcoming votes.\u00a0 A few folks like Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert hold the key votes in their hands to be the gatekeepers on critical legislation. Think of all the fun the Democrats have had with Joe Manchin essentially controlling their agenda in the Senate – yep, probably gonna be similar in the House.<\/p>\n

This has implications outside our borders, as well. For openers, Ukraine aid may be squarely in the crosshairs (remember when the Democrats impeached Trump over the famous “quid pro quo” accusations that he leveraged their aid? How many billions has Biden sent them since?) Any action on Social Security, the border, and other hot issues is likely to be more contentious, especially given the seemingly Democrat front. Going to be a very interesting two years.<\/p>\n

“Freedom Caucus”… sounds so clunky. Gonna have to give these newly powerful folks a name. “The Squad” is already taken….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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