Republican Congressman Matt Gates is not exactly having the most relaxing Thanksgiving week,
and in fact, he is raging this week of Thanksgiving against pretty much everyone and everything
that he can rage against. During an interview on Steve Bannon's podcast this week, Matt
Gates went off the rails on everything from Kevin McCarthy to Jack Smith, the new special
prosecutor that's gonna be looking into Donald Trump, but about Kevin McCarthy. Matt Gates,
for some reason, is on this crusade to make sure that Kevin McCarthy does not become Speaker
of the House, to the point where Gates has even suggested making Tulsi Gabbard, who is
no longer a member of Congress, the speaker of the House, yes, that is allowed by the
rules, but that's just how desperate Matt Gates is to not let Kevin McCarthy get that
gavel. So here is what Gates said in his interview with Bannon five members, which include myself,
Andy Bigs, Bob Good, Matt Rosendale, and now most recently Ralph Norman have all come out
and said that our no vote on McCarthy is firm.
It was not just a no vote within the Republican Conference. It is a no vote. We intend to
carry to the floor. Republicans are expected to hold a four seat majority. So five of us
saying publicly, we have no intention of voting for McCarthy. We are firm in our opposition
to him. Well, that ought to trigger a realization among Republicans that we need a consensus
candidate. There are enough of us now a critical mass standing up as a bull work against this
ascension to the speakership. Wow, you, you seem pretty angry about having a majority
in the house. I I, I don't get it. Well, I guess I do get it a little bit. See, the last
time Matt Gates had a majority Republicans in the House of Representatives was his first
term. He was a freshman. Nobody knew who he was. Nobody cared what he was.
And then by the time people started to pay attention to him and he felt like he had a
little bit of power, Republicans lost their majority. And he's been in the minority ever
since then. So now in his fourth term, he's getting the majority back, and by God he wants
some power. He wants somebody that's going to listen to him. And I don't think Kevin
McCarthy puts too much stock into what Matt Gates has to say. Furthermore, I think Matt
Gates would prefer to have one of his Freedom Caucus buddies sitting in that speakership
position because it would mean that Matt Gates personally would get more out of it like that.
At the end of the day is what this is all about. Matt Gates wants more power. Kevin
McCarthy probably isn't going to give him that power, so he wants to put one of his
buddies in charge like Jim Jordan so that Jordan will give him all the favors that he
wants. This isn't about protecting the Republican party. It's not about any real grievance against
Kevin McCarthy other than Matt Gates doesn't get what he wants. And if there's one thing
we've learned from
Spoiled little frat boys like Matt Gates, when they don't get what they want, they go
into these massive temper tantrums like what he had on Tuesday on Bannon's show. And of
course that wasn't the end of it. Nope. Matt Gates then went into his tirade about Jack
Smith, the special prosecutor saying, we're gonna defund, we're gonna defund the special
prosecutor's office. Which for the record isn't a thing that Congress can do. See funding
for the DOJ is already allocated for the next 12 months. So you literally can't do a single
thing about them funding that special prosecutor's office. And if you try to strip the funds
from them in the next budget, even though you've only got what that four vote majority
in the house like you say, so you're not even gonna get that. But even if you did, the DOJ
would just reallocate money from a different area to fund that or Now hear me out on this
one, Matt, cuz I know this is complicated for you or Democrats in the house would strike
a deal with just what? What is, you say, what four Republicans to get them to come up with
a deal to fund the special prosecutor's office. You're not gonna win on this one. You can
whine and cry and and moan about it all you want, but you're still a loser. Even though
you party won the house, you're still a loser. You've always been a loser and you're always
going to be a loser. And that's
what you off
the most.