The Colorado Sun Article RatingLittwin: The debacle that made Kevin McCarthy House speaker is just the start. There's much more to come.
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| "There were other promises, like a futile vote on a balanced budget amendment, a futile vote on Congressional term limits, votes and more votes on border security." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "But McCarthy has also apparently promised to cut spending commensurate with the rise in the debt limit, which might well include cuts to Social Security and/or Medicare." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "When she actually called out Trump -- whom she so strongly supports -- advising him it was time to tell McCarthy to give it up, you saw Boebert in full Boebert form." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "When she actually called out Trump -- whom she so strongly supports -- advising him it was time to tell McCarthy to give it up, you saw Boebert in full Boebert form." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "When she actually called out Trump -- whom she so strongly supports -- advising him it was time to tell McCarthy to give it up, you saw Boebert in full Boebert form." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "And when the 14th vote ended with Gaetz voting present -- just as Boebert already had done -- a once-confident, ever-griing McCarthy, sure of victory, was now an embattled McCarthy with no victory and no grin at all." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "And when the 14th vote ended with Gaetz voting present -- just as Boebert already had done -- a once-confident, ever-griing McCarthy, sure of victory, was now an embattled McCarthy with no victory and no grin at all." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "And when the 14th vote ended with Gaetz voting present -- just as Boebert already had done -- a once-confident, ever-griing McCarthy, sure of victory, was now an embattled McCarthy with no victory and no grin at all." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "And when the 14th vote ended with Gaetz voting present -- just as Boebert already had done -- a once-confident, ever-griing McCarthy, sure of victory, was now an embattled McCarthy with no victory and no grin at all." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "What I kept seeing, besides an insistence that McCarthy had to go, was an audition for a TV gig, maybe after the 2024 election season." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "In the end, when McCarthy finally did win the speakership, it was only because the six holdouts all voted present, which allowed him the slimmest of possible majorities." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "No one knows for sure yet how much McCarthy had to give away to satisfy his years-long ambition of being speaker -- only that it was a lot." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "After much behind-closed-doors bartering, the session ended with only six rebels, including Boebert." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "You see what kind of power that gives someone like Boebert." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Rogers will likely chair the full committee." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "They didn't cave until McCarthy had promised them everything they could think to ask for." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Also great fun, apparently, was the near fight on the House floor between an enraged Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Alabama, and Rep. Gaetz, R-Crazytown, in which Rogers had to be restrained from lunging at Gaetz." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Also great fun, apparently, was the near fight on the House floor between an enraged Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Alabama, and Rep. Gaetz, R-Crazytown, in which Rogers had to be restrained from lunging at Gaetz." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Also great fun, apparently, was the near fight on the House floor between an enraged Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Alabama, and Rep. Gaetz, R-Crazytown, in which Rogers had to be restrained from lunging at Gaetz." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "And now, Boebert -- among the leaders of the House dissidents and, I fear, an actual player in what promises to be two years of constant brinkmanship -- apparently thinks it was all in, well, fun, starting with the humiliation of the new speaker, who, she assured us for days, would never get the votes to win." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "After the vote, you may recall that Boebert promised to show more discipline and focus and to take the temperature down in DC." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "McCarthy apparently got Greene to vote for him by promising a seat on the Oversight Committee, which might as well be called the investigate-everyone-in-the-Biden-administration committee." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "McCarthy apparently got Greene to vote for him by promising a seat on the Oversight Committee, which might as well be called the investigate-everyone-in-the-Biden-administration committee." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "It was that kind of night, which ended with McCarthy, who thought he'd lost once again, racing across the House floor to stop a vote for adjournment." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "And there will be, it has been reported, a committee to probe what some Republicans call Biden's weaponization of the federal government -- a committee with a budget reportedly equal to that of the January 6 Select Committee." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Or as Lauren Boebert tweeted Saturday morning following her Friday night star turn as Eris -- the Greek goddess of chaos, strife and discord -- If y'all thought that was good, just wait till we take the fight to Joe Biden and the radical left!" | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Or as Lauren Boebert tweeted Saturday morning following her Friday night star turn as Eris -- the Greek goddess of chaos, strife and discord -- If y'all thought that was good, just wait till we take the fight to Joe Biden and the radical left!" | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Meanwhile, Trump was on the phone trying to change votes, a process he knows something about." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "For instance, the dissidents got the right for any one representative at any time to invoke a motion to vacate, meaning an instant vote on whether McCarthy remains as speaker." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Meaning, say, if McCarthy were to fold on a vote for the new rules package, which is scheduled for Monday, he could presumably lose the speaker's position by midafternoon." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "As we saw in the votes for speaker, McCarthy's margin is so slim that he can afford to lose only four Republican votes to get anything passed." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "But here's a guess: If he's left depending on help from Boebert and Gaetz and the gang of crazies, it may not be long before the final countdown." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "And playing a starring role as dissident was, of course, Lauren Boebert, who will likely get many more chances to steal the spotlight." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Instead of 10,000 votes, all he and McCarthy needed were two." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Maybe the most worrisome McCarthy promise concerns raising the debt ceiling." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Let's face it, 49.92" | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "If you missed the Friday Night Debacle on the floor of the U.S. House, the one in which Kevin McCarthy was finally elected speaker on Round 15 after 14 humiliating rounds of defeat, don't worry." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "One ringside analyst, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Teessee, described the near fight this way: People shouldn't be drinking, especially when you're a redneck, on the House floor." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "The best headline I saw on McCarthy's failures read: We Need to Talk About Kevin." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "When House Republicans met Friday afternoon, there were 20 rebels voting against McCarthy." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "But Rosendale waved off the phone, leaving the former president hanging." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "That's how weak McCarthy looks to be." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "If it's bad for McCarthy -- and it almost certainly will be -- there's no need to feel sorry for him." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "In yet another misjudgment, McCarthy must have thought toadying up to Trump -- as he had so many times before -- would win over Trump's closest allies in the House." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "In yet another misjudgment, McCarthy must have thought toadying up to Trump -- as he had so many times before -- would win over Trump's closest allies in the House." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "In yet another misjudgment, McCarthy must have thought toadying up to Trump -- as he had so many times before -- would win over Trump's closest allies in the House." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "But someone -- possibly Gaetz, possibly Boebert, possibly both -- apparently reneged on the deal." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "But someone -- possibly Gaetz, possibly Boebert, possibly both -- apparently reneged on the deal." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "But McCarthy has also apparently promised to cut spending commensurate with the rise in the debt limit, which might well include cuts to Social Security and/or Medicare." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Joe Biden would never agree to that." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "I don't know how much more McCarthy can be humiliated." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "The main difference between the two dates, other than the lack of bloodshed, may be that Donald Trump seemed to want to stop the chaos this time." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "Did you see Greene -- who, we know, had lost all committee assignments for voicing a variety of conspiracy theories, including the one about Jewish space lasers -- and her cheek-to-cheek selfie with McCarthy?" | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Did you see Greene -- who, we know, had lost all committee assignments for voicing a variety of conspiracy theories, including the one about Jewish space lasers -- and her cheek-to-cheek selfie with McCarthy?" | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "He's the, uh, leader, you'll remember, who briefly blamed Trump for the insurrection, saying he would urge Trump to resign, and then, just days later, went to Mar-a-Lago to kiss his ring and beg forgiveness." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "He's the, uh, leader, you'll remember, who briefly blamed Trump for the insurrection, saying he would urge Trump to resign, and then, just days later, went to Mar-a-Lago to kiss his ring and beg forgiveness." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Kevin McCarthy seems to be the wier here, with Boebert, Matt Gaetz and their Freedom Caucus, election-denying pals -- who did cave in the end -- as the losers." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "Kevin McCarthy seems to be the wier here, with Boebert, Matt Gaetz and their Freedom Caucus, election-denying pals -- who did cave in the end -- as the losers." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "Kevin McCarthy seems to be the wier here, with Boebert, Matt Gaetz and their Freedom Caucus, election-denying pals -- who did cave in the end -- as the losers." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "All I know is what Burchett said of Rogers: I would drop him like a bag of dirt." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "All I know is what Burchett said of Rogers: I would drop him like a bag of dirt." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "And so, as the C-SPAN cameras showed, a finger-pointing argument broke out between McCarthy and Gaetz, a verbal fight preceding the more volatile Rogers-Gaetz clash." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "And so, as the C-SPAN cameras showed, a finger-pointing argument broke out between McCarthy and Gaetz, a verbal fight preceding the more volatile Rogers-Gaetz clash." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "But in another moment of humiliation, Trump apparently had phoned Marjorie Taylor Greene -- the one-time Boebert ally who now seems to be a bitter frenemy -- to get her to hand the phone to dissident Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Montana, for a bit of Trumpian browbeating." | Negative | -78% Liberal |
| "But in another moment of humiliation, Trump apparently had phoned Marjorie Taylor Greene -- the one-time Boebert ally who now seems to be a bitter frenemy -- to get her to hand the phone to dissident Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Montana, for a bit of Trumpian browbeating." | Negative | -78% Liberal |
| "But in another moment of humiliation, Trump apparently had phoned Marjorie Taylor Greene -- the one-time Boebert ally who now seems to be a bitter frenemy -- to get her to hand the phone to dissident Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Montana, for a bit of Trumpian browbeating." | Negative | -78% Liberal |
| "But in another moment of humiliation, Trump apparently had phoned Marjorie Taylor Greene -- the one-time Boebert ally who now seems to be a bitter frenemy -- to get her to hand the phone to dissident Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Montana, for a bit of Trumpian browbeating." | Negative | -78% Liberal |
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43% : There were other promises, like a futile vote on a balanced budget amendment, a futile vote on Congressional term limits, votes and more votes on border security.33% : But McCarthy has also apparently promised to cut spending commensurate with the rise in the debt limit, which might well include cuts to Social Security and/or Medicare.
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