No thumpers. McCarthy’s pivoted to full avoidance of political conflicts.
Jerry Weiss 6/22, political analyst at Feathers of Hope, “Hey, Whose In Charge of This Place Anyway?,” Feathers of Hope, 6/22/23, https://jerryweiss.substack.com/p/hey-whose-in-charge-of-this-place
Just days after defying MAGA extremists to pass the debt-limit bill with a bipartisan majority, Speaker McCarthy returns to appeasing them.
President Biden signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act on Saturday June 3, finally bringing the debt ceiling drama to an end. And on Monday the MAGA minority faction was reacting with their usual tactic: extortion.
Refusing to support a routine rules vote to move legislation forward, they held the floor of the House of Representatives hostage to their demand for “power sharing” with the Speaker. By Wednesday June 7, Kevin McCarthy had reverted to his usual posture: offering concessions to whomever applies the most pressure at any given moment.
"The one thing you've got to realize, whenever you put a cap, that's the ceiling,” he said. “We can always spend less. I've always advocated for spending less money."
Later, he added this: "If we can write (spending bills) to even lower levels, then we should do it in the House."