We are no fans of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. In fact, we have been calling for someone to defeat his leadership for some time. If we had our way, it would be Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio but he has consistently and publicly stated that he does not want the job.
As this point, there leaves little choice but for conservatives in the House of Representatives to rally around Kevin McCarthy for the speakership to prevent the Democrats working with liberal and moderate (basically the same) Republicans from colluding to oust McCarthy and place someone like retiring Rep. Fred Upton into the position. If that happened, the all-important committee assignments would not go to Freedom Caucus members like Jim Jordan but would go GOP swamp creatures who need to be politically purged in the next election, certainly not elevated to high positions in the new Congress.
Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House certainly isn’t ideal to us but it could be worse…much, much worse with the establishment in control.
