Dan Bishop ready to oust McCarthy if he tries to pass negotiated debt ceiling deal
Congressman Dan Bishop and his Freedom Caucus colleagues held the
House GOP caucus’ feet to the fire in the speaker election earlier this year. They managed to win some key concessions.
Now, with word that Patrick McHenry and speaker Kevin McCarthy are championing a decidedly non-conservative debt ceiling bill, Bishop is stepping out to hold some more feet to the fire:
Conservative angst over the debt deal has triggered Kevin McCarthy’s biggest fear — threats to oust him from the speakership.
Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) on Tuesday became the first House conservative to explicitly state he is considering a push to oust McCarthy over his recent deal with President Joe Biden.
“Absolutely,” Bishop told POLITICO in an interview, when asked about using the tool to force out a sitting speaker. “It is inescapable to me. It has to be done.”
The procedure Bishop is considering would essentially trigger a vote of no confidence against McCarthy — a tool that’s been weaponized by the conservative House Freedom Caucus against the past two speakers in attempts to keep party leaders from leaning too much towards the center.
It would only take one House member to decide to trigger the vote, which would then require a simple majority to oust the speaker.
It’s not clear yet if Bishop will go ahead with his threat: He noted he wants support from other colleagues before he takes such a move.
“I don’t make single decisions like that alone. And so it depends on what the members who have courage” also do, he said.[…]
If you don’t believe ME, watch and listen to Bishop himself.
There’s a cancer eating away at the Republican Party at all levels of our government. Our party has been infiltrated by democrat/commies masquerading as Republicans. They campaign as conservatives, but govern as liberals once they’re in office. McCarthy is one of them. It’s a shame he was elected Speaker, because he’s now in position to do tremendous damage to our nation and to legitimate conservatives. We can only hope and pray Mr. Bishop has the courage–and the allies–to kick McCarthy out of the Speaker’s position, preferably before this awful debt limit deal becomes law.
Aye, but the attention here in NC needs to be less on Bishop and more on the quislings in the rest of the NC GOP congressional delegation. Let’s face it, Bishop is only as strong to the degree that the rest of us get after his NC colleagues like the hounds of hell.
True enough. The rest of the NC GOP is nothing to write home about. I know my 3rd District clapping seal is all in with the Speaker.
Clarification: My clapping seal is not in with you. My clapping seal is in with Speaker McCarthy.
Our late Congressman Walter Jones would have been right there with Bishop, opposing this despicable sellout to Biden that McCarthy has given us. It has almost tripled the amount of new debt from what the Democrats originally asked for and it does not even cut out those 87,000 IRS thugs to harass the middle class with tax audits. Walter Jones was also one of the first to come out to remove Boehner. McCarthy has now shown his hand and there is not a dimes worth of difference between Boehner and McCarthy.
What will Greg Murphy do? If he sides with Boehner, oh excuse me, McCarthy, I am done with him.
If I heard him right this morning, according to Henry Hinton on his “Talk of the Town” radio program, Murphy does support the McCarthy plan.
Unfortunately, that would figure. In the legislature, he was known as Medicaid Murphy for his support of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, years before even our sellout “leadership” did so, and he voted to allow men in the Ladies restrooms and locker rooms in repealing HB2. In Congress, Murphy has supported cancel culture against southern heritage. Becoming a big spender on top of all that is just going farther down that leftwing slippery slope. I am keeping my fingers crossed that he will do a Walter Jones here and stand fast for the taxpayers, but it would not surprise me if he betrays the taxpayers on this critical vote.
This morning (one day later) Murphy called in to the Hinton radio program defending his aye vote as “a step in the right direction.”
So, TaxAudit Murphy says going from 87,000 new IRS auditors to terrorize the middle class and small business owners to merely 85,200 of these tax terrorists is “a step in the right direction”???? That is not much of a step. If you get audited in these next couple of years, please call Murphy and thank him! Then there is going from a one year debt ceiling increase of $1.5 Trillion to a two year, at least $4 Trillion debt increase, almost triple the original Democrat request. That is multiple steps in the WRONG direction. Time for a primary for WrongWay Murphy.
While I’m ‘thanking’ the clapping seal for his debt ceiling vote I’ll also ‘thank’ him for insulting all native Carolinians for the insult finalized this week at Fort Bragg. The dude doesn’t represent me.
Our state is lost and our country is lost. BOTH parties are to blame. There is no representation of or for We The Citizens by either side. It’s what’s best for the politician and their level of greed.
There is NOT one conservative group in the state nor in DC to made one whit of a difference nor do they try. IT’S follow the leader and follow the almighty $$$.
There never was ANY means for all the $BILLIONS GIVEN to Ukraine. NONE. And all the junkets (by both parties) tells you the $$ flowing there return here, in their pockets.
Top of the NC gop is putrid. They lie and deceive and are following the almighty $$$ as well. Our University Bds are abysmal and were appointed by the gop.
We are supporting ‘green’ deals for Coop and Biden….by a gop-lead Gen Assembly.
Call me crazy, but I have no reason to pull a gop lever!
And state is getting sports gambling & medical marijuana . Ain’t life great in the ole North State?
Added to Obamacare Medicaid expansion, the Green New Deal, and men in the Ladies restrooms. Whose side are Berger and Moore on? Clearly not ours.
Again, why are we pulling a gop lever?
Everyone’s post about the GOP is correct. I too, am disgusted with their behavior at all levels. So much they decide is either against the platform or the constitution, often times, both. I am still a republican as I believe there is hope to change the party and I am starting with the candidate for state chairman, John Kane. He is the real deal and is right now, the only way I see to turn the party around so we can get the rightful President his job back. He is the only one I see that can attract and get unaffiliated voters to return to the party. He is the only way I see to get Christian, constitutional, conservative candidates to step up and be the representatives we deserve. Don’t give up. Register to go to the state convention and vote for John. We can’t give up. George Washington did not give up.
If you live in Richard Hudson’s district, call his DC office, and tell him to stand with Dan Bishop and vote “NO” on the budget. (202) 225-3715
If you live in Greg Murphy’s district, call his DC office, and tell him to stand with Dan Bishop and vote “NO” on the budget. (202) 225-3415
If your representative isn’t standing with Dan Bishop and voting “NO” on the budget, call and make your voice heard. Do not give up without a fight.
Jesse Helms and Ronald Reagan are rolling over in their graves.
Thank you Dan Bishop & Ted Budd