McCarthy delivers parting elbow to GOP's House majority
By Jim Geraghty / The Washington Post
Oct. 6, 2023: Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif, freshly ousted as House speaker, tells reporters outside his former office: “No, I’m not resigning. I’m staying, so don’t worry. We’re going to keep the majority. I’m going to help the people I got here, and we’re going to expand it.”
Dec. 6, 2023: McCarthy writes in a Wall Street Journal op-ed: “I have decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways.”
No doubt it stinks to be a former speaker, forced to work alongside colleagues who voted to remove you from your dream job. And McCarthy must be irritated, watching current Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., make more or less the same decisions McCarthy made, with much less grumbling and rebellion from the likes of Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and the House Freedom Caucus.
It must be maddening for McCarthy to hear former president Donald Trump explain that he chose to not rescue McCarthy’s speakership because McCarthy wasn’t willing to introduce legislation to “expunge” Trump’s two impeachments.
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