Just when we didn’t think Matt Gaetz could possibly get any dumber, he did this…
more unpopular among his Republican colleagues. The legislative kamikaze ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy and plunged the House into unprecedented chaos.But then Gaetz sent out an ill-conceived fundraising blast Tuesday night, ripping colleagues who aren’t lining up to support Jim Jordan, the pugnacious Ohio representative who’s never introduced a single bill that’s been signed into law.
While the majority of Republicans, including Gaetz, support Jordan for Speaker, 22 members of the GOP failed to back him Wednesday.
Many of the defectors sit on the appropriations committee, and harbor understandable reservations about electing a speaker who’s never seemed interested in actually governing.
The aforementioned email called those Republicans “RINOs,” and said they are “working with RADICAL DEMOCRATS like AOC, ILHAN OMAR and RASHIDA TLAIB to BLOCK JIM JORDAN FROM BECOMING SPEAKER!!!”But there’s only one problem with that: Gaetz did the exact same thing!
