Full Panel: ‘McCarthy does not now have the votes to be elected Speaker’
Susan Page, Reid Wilson, Maria Teresa Kumar and Matt Gorman join the Meet the Press roundtable to discuss Republican House leadership jockeying and former President Trump’s dinner with a white supremacist.
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Republicans need to act exactly the same way the Demorats have acted over the past 6 years…fight fire with fire
The narrow GOP House victory may turn out to be a blessing in disguise for the Democrats. McCarthy will have no real power as Speaker, trying in vain to appease a bunch of extremists and crazies who just want to burn the place down. They’ll be too dysfunctional to actually do their jobs and govern and the bill will come due in ’24
Whom Can We Trust If No One Is Trustworthy?
One of my favorite quips from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is when Tom is defined as “a glittering hero…the pet of the old, the envy of the young,” and there were “some that believed that he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.” With these few words, Twain captured the essence of leadership in our world. Those who get to the top are the fiercest, most determined, and most ruthless. Today, the latter quality has become so intense that we can no longer believe our leaders, and certainly not trust them to have our best interest in mind.
I am not accusing any leader in particular, or even leaders as a whole. It is simply that in an egoistic world, where people vie to topple one another on their way to the top, the one at the top is clearly the one who trampled over and knocked down more people than anyone else. Concisely, to get to the top in an egoistic world you have to be the biggest egoist.
So how do we know whom to trust? We don’t know and we cannot know. All we know is that we are in the dark.
In a culture of unhinged selfishness, any conspiracy theory seems reasonable, while truth is nowhere to be found. When every person who says or writes something is trying to promote some hidden agenda, you have no way of knowing who is right, what really happened, or if anything happened at all.
The only way to get some clarity in the news and goodwill from our leaders is to say “Enough!” to our current system and build something entirely independent. The guiding principle of such a system should be “information only,” no commentary. Commentary means that information has already been skewed. Information means saying only what happened, as much as possible, not why, and not who is to blame and who we should praise.
Concurrently, we must begin a comprehensive process of self-teaching. We have to know not only what is happening, but why we skew and distort everything. In other words, we have to know about human nature and how it inherently presents matters according to its own subjective view, which caters to one’s own interest. To “clear” ourselves from that deformity, we must learn how to rise above our personal interest and develop an equally favorable attitude toward others. This is our only guarantee that our interpretation of things will be even and correct.
Once we achieve such an attitude, we will discover that the bad things we see in our world reflect our own, internal wickedness. Our ill-will toward others creates a world where ill-will governs, and so the world is filled with wickedness and cruelty. Therefore, all we need in order to create positive leadership—and to generally eliminate ill-will from the world—is to generate goodwill within us. When we nurture goodwill toward others, we will fill the world with goodwill. As a result, the world will fill with kindness and compassion. By changing ourselves, we will create a world that is opposite from the world we have created through our desires to govern, patronize, and often destroy other people.
I would like to see a meritocracy. A pool of people, considered the best in their fields, by their peers and the public. Say 10000 people.
Leaders for each gov department are then chosen by a jury like system…..you are called to serve and so you do for a 2 or 3 year term. Then you return to your previous post. Everyone gets paid the same.
It would remove lobbying and those serving in let’s say a transport dept. would be the national experts in that field. Same in every other department.
Nobody is striving to get to the top….no need for ego. Everyone benefits as the government and country works efficiently.
There’s obviously issues with democracy and voting here that I haven’t figured out yet. Perhaps at the pool of candidates stage.
What I have figured out is that it will never happen as nobody gets rich and powerful out of it, which increasingly seems to be the reason they are going into politics these days. Just a dream.
Chuck,you do a terrific job.You are blessed to be the person on Meet the press,such a giant long running show,I’ve watched MTP for 50 years…stay healthy and prosper.
Imagine sucklin the propoganda teet for 50 years and still doin it 🤣🤣🤣
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Chuck Sucks..lies delusional..
James Comer is disgusting. He only got elected due to gerrymandering. Have you seen his district? It’s almost all of the southern border of rural KY. Not a single major municipality. It’s the old-school GOP who refuses to change their party affiliation no matter what the party stands for. And it surrounds the 3rd largest city in the state. Comer was a great KY Ag Commissioner. He went off the deepend when he got elected to Congress.
Best way to torment him is to use “IN TRUMP WE LOSE”
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Kevin McCarthy will not be Speaker of the House in January!
He is a weak man and he is not respected by many members of the House! They are tired of the Republican” Clown Show” and this is not why ,they were sent to Congress! The American people are also tired of the Republican Party Clown show! Did we not send the Republican party a message ,that they are not listening to in the midterms??? If the Republican Party ignores what the vast majority of Americans want them to do ,we will give them a stronger message in 2024! Continue with this Clown Show at your own peril!
Hasn’t he already assumed the role?
What is it with these Republicans and overconfidence in their campaign style?
What we Americans need is the republicans to work on what good for all of us.
If McCarthy gets it he needs to put the playground rhetoric away grow up and get
the house to work on real issues. Not this bullying brought out by trump.
Drop all this impeachment crap wasting our money and use it in a much better way.
You know people still want to investigate Hunter. And if the Republicans don’t then maga is gonna go crazy. Silly games is what they like to play.
If they get to work on their real policies folks aren’t gonna like it, eliminating social security, medicare, and medicaid will not be embraced by the public and that is their plan, has been for many years
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It would be greatly pleasing for McCarthy to not get the Speakership. His spineless pandering to get it has been disgusting to watch.
Life was better before joe and the Democrats.
Let’s hope we stay with Biden longer.
I’m buying popcorn, sitting back, and will enjoy watching the MAGA Republicans destroy the GOP from within ..two had the guts to try to save it…Cheney and Kinzenger,while other GOP remained silent cowards or licked Trump’s boots….serves them right!!!!
Asian-Americans beware the Republican Party. They want to push the next “Big Lie” which is that COVID was an intentional pandemic and that is not science but RACISM.
It seems that Republicans just can’t understand the difference between election and selection. But nobody ever accused a Republican of having a broad vocabulary, or being able to comprehend complex issues like voting.
Has anyone ever given Matt there direction on how not to look like someone who routinely eats human babies?
Kevin Macarthy does not deserve to be Speaker of the house he’s a total sheister
All Republicans do have the votes to get neutered.
Why is Liberal Fake News so Afraid of McCarthy?
“Any man or woman can make mistakes, but only an idiot’s persists in their error’s.” ⚔
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I bet Chuck goes to bed every night saying “what am I doing…what am I saying”. Imagine being a lying spokeshole for corporations with bigger intentions.
This squabble between rep and Dems will destroy america.
It’s true Republicans don’t care for impeachments that are political. They prefer impeachments that are sexual.
Clawhand
This only means that Republican voters are immature and they are being treated like children.
People voted, they don’t want crazy conspiracy theorists nuts in office.
Margorie Trump666 Greene will be the voice in McCarthy’s brain. LOL!
My money is on kevin mccarthy ultimately being taken out of congress in a nice, shiny pair of handcuffs.
the 3 party system:
1. the republican party – red
2. the maga party – white
3. the democratic party – blue
there’s no such thing as a maga republican – maga hides in the gop because they are cowards and won’t stand on their own, the toxic maga swamp
As a 3rd party voter. I really gotta find a place to immigrate too. I can never get behind this mentality of voting for lesser evil or voting against something instead of for something.
Wait…you’re telling me that covid broke out in China in November 2018, hit the US in January 2019, the country dealt with it for 2 years under Donald trump’s watch and he wanted “to play it down” pretending it was imaginary, no big deal and would “go away”. You’re telling me not once did Donald stand up an investigative team to address covid origins BEFORE joe Biden replaced him on January 20, 2021?!? This hasn’t already been done?!? And NOW it’s a GOP talking point issue in November 2022?!? Uh….okay…🙄
They haven’t voted yet
And they won’t till one person sure of having enough votes..stay tuned to sometime in January..LOL No leader takes a vote to the floor till sure of a win…Just ask Nancy she has an unbroken record, after years as Leader…She has never lost a vote….
Chuck Todd is completely unwatchable. Holy sh*t bro, shut your buffoon Mmm’s and uhhh’s.
‘McCarthy Does Not Now Have The Votes To Be Elected Speaker’ Is bad grammar. It should be ‘McCarthy Doesn’t Have The Votes To Be Elected Speaker’
Investigating Covid has nothing to do with Biden, Trump was in office when Covid hit, not Biden.
*News flash! IT DOESN’T MATTER! THE REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO SHAKE THINGS UP! AND AS AN INDEPENDENT VOTER I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE FIREWORKS!*
Donald Trump for Speaker.
6:09 Total misuse and misunderstanding of the Elie Wiesel quote. The meaning is that indifference is worse than hate because it means potentially good people allow evil to persist by shirking their moral responsibility. Indifference to Trump means he is being allowed to go uncriticized.
No one allows evil you’re either for or against, also no amount of criticism makes evil less evil.
Elise Stefanik is Trump 2.0
You must also investigate Trumps failures on COVID, if they do not they show their true colors
I hope he wins
Please God in heaven, do not let McCarthy become Speaker. His reputation is completely in the toilet, so how can he still even be considered. I don’t get it.
Kowtowing to the so called “Freedom Caucus”? Does that sound sensible? Such an unreasonable lot. Not a squeak about Trump’s recent dinner companions but LapTop contents? No. I would be against kowtowing to The Freedom Caucus. But one suspects it is always being demanded by the same lot the GOP that doesn’t recognise the need to answer to subpoenas – but wait a few weeks and watch the hypocrisy. They will attempt to have Reps jailed if – they don’t kowtow to the Freedom Caucus.
Kowtowing to the Freedom Caucus? Hmm.
McCarthy talks about the Democrats wasting money yet he is going to do this with his agenda of investing Democrats. What McCarthy should be doing is creating legislation that will help with the imagination problem. There are laws that need to be followed. Democrats have tried to put legislation up and guess who voted against it?
Things the American people don’t understand? STOP belittling the American people. I am so sick of people like you.
The GOP house only seems focused on impeaching and conducting investigations, how about actually doing something for the average citizen?
The GOP has no interest in governing, only revenge politics
@John Roberts Exactly
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They so scared that he might win to investigate these f***** up Democrats they need to be investigated
For what? Hurting your feelings isnt a crime
He plays both sides.
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The GOP need a new person as Speaker of House not Kevin McCarthy a young blood with new ideas send Kevin McCarthy home . Kevin McCarthy does not have no backbone he’s spineless New Blood should be considered for the Speaker of the House for the GOP. The GOP need a female for their Speaker of the House. Kevin McCarthy will be indicted for playing a part in January 6th Riot on the US Capitol.
GOP need to make a female that new Speaker of the House
What is Kevin McCarthy’s position in the Trump Crime Family Organization?
So what, Congress is owned corporate lobbyists, politicians still get bribes from the wealthy, the State Department is still overthrowing democratically elected regimes that aren’t bothering Americans.
Deal with those, then I’ll care.
scummy corrupt democRATS💩
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MTG gonna be SO mad – she went to a lot of trouble to sew him up. Now she has to go work up leverage over some other poor jerk.
Why can’t politics just shut up for 4 days? Tired of seeing the brain dead think they are smart.
Corrupt ‘Quid Pro’ Joe will be impeached. You can take that to the bank!!
I think they could have done a better job explaining this… I didn’t know who Comer was, and I had to look into this myself?
mccarthy has got to go-
so does mcconnell and the rest of the rino’s-
otherwise its just more of the same, like its been for the last 30 years, the establishment rino’s and establishment democrats just leading us into needless war after needless war, raising our national debt, sputtering economies, broken promises like healthcare, immigration…. a continuation of the American decline, in every metric, that we have witnessed for 30+ years, all while the politicians have enriched themselves at levels not seen since the 1920’s-
our only hope of breaking this establishment, democrats and rino’s, is through the republican party- the democrats are far gone-
Why is Cheney speaker!!!!!!!
Why is Biden’s son-in-law running for President in 2024?????
Kevin should call their bluff. If Kevin can’t get the votes, a D will (e.g. Hakeem). Is that what the R’s want? If the Freedom Caucus doesn’t support Kevin, they’ll get a D as Speaker. That can’t be what they want.
Whoever becomes Speaker of House of Representatives will have a problem because they don’t have a clear majority.
I’m still celebrating Pelosi leaving the chair
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This pathetic beggar is starting “investigations” (political harassment and intimidation). Plus he makes his staff call him “Mr Speaker” 😥🤣🤣🤣🤣 when the egg is still up the chicken’s butt 🍑
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Love the crying on the comments
Mccarthy is a weakling. No way!!! Come on. He can’t even do the right thing.
McCarthy- I will do anything (218) reminds me of my renter said..🤣
Republicans have a chance to signal a new direction by choosing a someone whose isn’t a Trump sycophant. I’m betting they won’t get it done.
Biden and pelosi who tried to push their Disinformation CRAP on Americans !! Here’s there Girl 😡 Former White House ‘Disinformation Czar’ Nina Jankowicz Registers as Foreign Agent
One way to change the odds here is to impeach all the repub house members that helped trump in the insurrection. What they are replaced with will hopefully be less insane than the radicals who were re-elected.
YEP WE THE REPUBLICANS NEED A BETTER REPRESENTATIVE THAN MCCARTHY or McConnell..???
SURELY WE NEED ADAM SCHIFF IN JAIL FOR LIES ON RUSSIAN COLLUSION..
Culture war promotion will be the demise of the GOP and it is starting to show at the polls. The GOP needs a PRODUCTIVE agenda, not one like their current one, that generates negativity and marginalization. Hint: look at what the Democrats are achieving.
McCarthy is jockeying to be Freaker of the House, where he will spend the next two years freaking out as the driver of the Republican clown car as it drives off a political cliff on its way to compelling voters to give the House back to the Democrats in 2024.
I think the GOP will ultimately fall in line and select McCarthy because they don’t want to risk a Democrat being in charge.
I think that Pelosi is still available if they can’t come to a decision.
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Why can’t we talk about hunter
Trump owns McCarthy. Kayne West (aka “Ye”) has more has more backbone than Kevin and Marjorie Taylor Greene has bigger cajones than Kevin.
Good Riddance to Rancid Rubbish!
McCarthy has absolutely no foundation in anything moral. In this view, neither do the GOP.
Would love to see a bipartisan candidate rise to the occasion
The Democrats should do something bold and ingenious: Vote as a solid block with the support of about half a dozen moderate House Republicans to elect Liz Cheney as Speaker of the House. Though a conservative, Cheney has proven she can work on a bipartisan basis AND this choice would be a burning humiliation for Trump and his zombies army (The “Freedom” Caucus).
Republican Party is a Domestic Terrorist Organization !!
Who says we’ve got to have a speaker, McCarthy can win by default.
Biden needs to be impeached
Just get me 218..votes…
Sounds familiar
McC is a deplorable individual who has no business being in public service.
Liz Cheney for Speaker!