Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL), the conservative lawmaker the House Freedom Caucus endorsed ahead of Thursday’s GOP speaker nomination conference, told his colleagues at a closed door meeting Thursday morning that he would not commit his support to the eventual GOP nominee for speaker, Politico reported.
Anonymous sources in the meeting told Politico Webster said his stance was out of “personal principle,” however other members of the caucus have said they would support Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) if he became the nominee.
McCarthy is considered the top contender in Thursday’s closed-door nomination contest, which is only among Republicans. However, if the eventual nominee cannot get enough of the conservatives to support him for the full House vote later this month — where 218 votes are needed — it could set the stage for a protracted leadership fight.
And thus the once-proud GOP continues to crumble into ashes.
Um…if you want to be a man of principle, I’d go somewhere other than Congress.
Louie Gohmert plans casting a protest vote for Vlad Pooty. Or the Don Esquis guy—
“His friends call him by his name, his enemies don’t call him anything because they are all dead.”
Just what we guessed, these clowns are all talk, no walk. They are just children pitching a fit, engaging in the media equivalent of throwing themselves down in the Capitol Rotunda and screaming… “look at me!!!”
Boehner’s cocktail never tasted so good to him as it does now.