December 3, 2023
Audio from the incident has Burchett calling out to McCarthy: “Why’d you elbow me in the back, Kevin? Hey Kevin! You got any guts? Jerk.” Colbert was ready with an answer. “No, Kevin McCarthy has guts,” he said in defense of the former speaker. “What he doesn’t have is balls.” The audience erupted at the
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WASHINGTON — Kevin McCarthy’s 269-day tenure as House speaker was spoiled by his frequent reliance on bipartisanship. At least that’s how some of his fellow Republicans saw it. The eight rogue GOP lawmakers who voted on Oct. 3 to remove the Californian from the speakership repeatedly complained that he too often turned to Democrats for help
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WASHINGTON — Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett accused former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield), whom he helped oust from the post last month, of elbowing him in a Capitol Hill hallway on Tuesday. “You just don’t expect a guy who was at one time three steps away from the White House to hit you with a sucker punch
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WASHINGTON — Since House Republicans unanimously elected Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson as speaker last week, the GOP has sought to portray itself as an emboldened party willing to battle President Biden and the Democratic-controlled Senate. But for California Republicans, Johnson’s election presents a host of potential problems that could make trying to survive in a deep-blue
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Johnson, a relatively inexperienced Louisiana Republican who fought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, was elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, ending weeks of leaderless chaos that followed the Oct. 3 ouster of Bakersfield Rep. Kevin McCarthy. Johnson’s ascension to the speaker’s chair cements a
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Jimmy Kimmel came up with a colorful way to describe what far-right Republicans did to Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) when they tossed him out of the speaker’s office. After Republicans failed to elect a speaker on Tuesday, McCarthy tried to blame Democrats for voting against him earlier this month. “Every single Democrat and eight Republicans
READ MORERepublicans have no clear idea who to elect U.S. House speaker, leaving an unprecedented power vacuum in Congress and severely limiting America’s ability to quickly respond to the crisis in Israel — or any number of other problems at home or abroad. On Monday, the ousted former speaker, Kevin McCarthy, quickly jumped into the void,
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When a majority of House Republicans opposed a successful push by right-wing rebels to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week, many warned that a leaderless House would be paralyzed to respond to a domestic or international crisis. Days later, Hamas militants attacked Israel in a brazen assault, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare, “We
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The “Late Show” host, on Wednesday, pointed to a group of GOP lawmakers getting McCarthy to agree to a chamber rule in January that would allow any one member to offer a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair. Colbert went on to play a clip of McCarthy pointing the finger at Democrats for his ouster
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