@RepMTG<\/a>: \u201cIf Trump becomes Speaker of the House, the House chamber will be like a Trump rally everyday!! It would be the House of MAGA!!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n @RepGregSteube<\/a>: \u201cWe need a MAGA Speaker.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n @RepTroyNehls<\/a>: \u201cAmerica misses President Trump\u2019s leadership. He would make Congress great again as Speaker of the House.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n @RepTroyNehls<\/a>: \u201cAre you ready?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not even Republicans can spin the chaotic mess that the House GOP has created by removing a speaker of their own party for the first time in U.S. history.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ron DeSantis<\/a>: \u201cI see a Republican majority that hasn\u2019t delivered what it promised it\u2019d deliver, but I also see a lot of political theater and performative stuff \u2026 a lot of chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel<\/a>: \u201cEvery day we\u2019re taking away from helping the American people because they\u2019re the ones who really lost yesterday, right? Their business isn\u2019t being done when Washington is shut down, which essentially it is for the next week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel<\/a>: \u201cWe cannot do this and win. If this happens again, we are jeopardizing a very small House majority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Laura Ingraham, Fox News<\/a>: \u201cAnd now the attention is drawn to Capitol Hill and the fact the Republicans are so incapable of governing, they lost a speaker, which hasn\u2019t really happened before in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rep. Tim Burchett<\/a>: \u201cWe took off six weeks this summer \u2026 they decided to take over two more weeks, and I feel like that\u2019s a failure of leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Former John Boehner and Paul Ryan spokesperson<\/a>: \u201cWe are not, right now, fit for governing. We are a party much more made for being in the minority. We like to vote against things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Former President George W. Bush spokesperson<\/a>: \u201cThe Republican Party today just can\u2019t govern. Nancy Pelosi, with a five-vote majority, she was able to govern. The Democrats have become the party of discipline and the Republicans have become the party that lacks discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The latest House Republican drama further proves MAGA Republicans cannot govern responsibly or effectively.<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Politico<\/a>: \u201cThe House GOP Is a Failed State\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cMcCarthy\u2019s defeat was the result of a bitter power struggle within the GOP, and especially due to the efforts of Representative Matt Gaetz, a hard-right rebel, who forced the vote. The House is now without a speaker, and more chaos is sure to follow. The GOP still holds the House majority, but it is a deeply riven and dysfunctional party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cAnd what is the party today? It is a party whose leader for its presidential nomination sits in a New York courtroom, who faces four other trials for criminal indictments ahead, and who promises vengeance and retribution if elected in 2024. It is also a party with a tight group of rebels in the House who have shown that they can make turmoil the order of the day in Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cThey did win the majority in the 2022 midterm elections, but by the narrowest of margins in a surprising underperformance. To succeed as legislators, they needed cohesion, discipline and leadership. Instead, they produced chaos under a speaker who was so weakened after getting the job that he could not lead effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead of producing results for the American people, MAGA House Republicans are producing nothing but chaos. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n New York Times<\/a>: \u201cBut in today\u2019s Republican Party, doing the right thing is considered a transgression, not a virtue \u2014 a sign of unforgivable allegiance to the political establishment. \u2026 House Republicans, beholden to a base that reveres former President Donald J. Trump and detests compromise, have become ungovernable. And it is doubtful that his precipitous downfall will break the fever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Politico<\/a>: \u201cAt the heart of Republicans\u2019 agita is the sense that an uncontrollable faction of their party is suddenly in charge. Gaetz and his disciples barrel ahead without a clear set of demands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n New York Times<\/a>: \u201cAnd he failed to master the art of corralling a deeply divided Republican majority that could never quite bring itself to rally behind him when it came time to choose normalcy over chaos. With the G.O.P. base increasingly hungry for insurgency and confrontation, Mr. McCarthy found himself out of step, a problem that is likely to plague any candidate who tries to succeed him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cOne other factor has brought the House Republicans to this point. That is the person and example of Donald Trump, the former president. Trump put governing by chaos on steroids (if one can call what he did governing) and in doing so produced a group of Mini-Mes, symbolized most by the politician who brought down McCarthy on Tuesday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.). This is the kind of leadership the party now offers the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rand Paul floated cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, joining the chorus of MAGA Republicans who are coming after these programs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rand Paul<\/a>: \u201cWe need to look at ALL spending, and this is my beef even with some conservatives and so-called conservatives \u2014 they take entitlements off the table.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Donald Trump\u2019s violent rhetoric has escalated, including suggesting that General Mark Milley be executed, calling for police officers to shoot shoplifters, and threatening his political enemies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Axios<\/a>: \u201cFormer President Trump’s violent rhetoric \u2014 a staple of his political brand dating back to 2015 \u2014 has grown more extreme as the walls have begun to close in on his business empire, livelihood and personal freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe normalization of political violence \u2014 or at least the threat of it \u2014 has been one of the most jarring and lasting impacts of Trump’s dominance of the GOP, especially in the wake of his four indictments this year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cTrump Floats the Idea of Executing Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n CNN<\/a>: \u201cTrump\u2019s incendiary rhetoric is nothing new. In his 2016 campaign, he suggested that protesters at his rally should be \u2018roughed up.\u2019 He suggested looters should be shot during the 2020 George Floyd protests. And many of the rioters who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, have said they were acting at his direction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The New York Times<\/a>: \u201cTrump Said Shoplifters Should Be Shot, Part of a String of Violent Remarks\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cThe Anaheim speech was part of a pattern of increasingly aggressive rhetoric by Trump \u2014 and a somewhat muted response by the news media to his repeated exhortations to violence.\u201d MAGA Republicans reached new heights this week with their extremism, hypocrisy, chaos, and \u2014 as President Biden would call it \u2014 malarkey. In case you missed it: Instead of doing their jobs and, well, governing, House Republicans remain beholden to Donald Trump and his MAGA agenda, calling for him to be a \u201cMAGA speaker\u201d as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/QLWrLSLX06HUyA4uhGy3J4w7udmK8HHJymknPaiT0ZGWcOyFSucARDkbzWDT9iTBIj4KAEsSyHVTnB5RuBTqzI9Umgpv4c5XWspsH79EKf7nur06NMVYgL9iTTeooig8THkSqXFjT0s2hIvM-leLQRFYq9xvGpsXtiN3SI6oEEe98Fboqg4CpHD5OfolJA\")
PBS<\/a>: \u201cTrump amplifies violent rhetoric against his perceived enemies as civil fraud trial begins\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"