“Dear Wayward Colleague, Your letter of October 20, in which you graciously offer to martyr yourselves as long as you can get your way, is perhaps the most selfless act in American history. We truly don’t deserve you. Your sacrifice is not in vain. You have succeeded in replacing the outdated concept of majority rule with an exciting new standard that a Speaker must be elected by 98.2 percent of the Republican conference. Someday, a messiah will be born unto us who can achieve this miraculous threshold, and on that day your judgment will be vindicated and you will be hailed as the geniuses that you are.” – GOP Rep. Tom McClintock, in a letter sent to the “Chaos Eight” who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker.
NEW: Rep. Tom McClintock is taking aim at the members who ousted McCarthy’s recent vow that they would be willing to be disciplined and expelled from the conference in order to get Jordan the gavel, with the California Republican clapping back in a sassy new letter. pic.twitter.com/UgY8WhcOWR
— Juliegrace Brufke (@juliegraceb) October 21, 2023
The letter – which he signed off with a sarcastic “your secret admirer, Tom McClintock “ – included an attachment to his resolution calling for the condemnation of the vote to remove McCarthy. pic.twitter.com/DVoW4YkHkv
— Juliegrace Brufke (@juliegraceb) October 21, 2023
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL): “The 8 of us have said that we are willing to accept censure, sanction, suspension, removal from the Republican conference… If what these holdouts need is a pound of our flesh, we’re willing to give it to them…to see them elect Jim Jordan for Speaker.” pic.twitter.com/DaWKebHhhR
— The Recount (@therecount) October 20, 2023
