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which turns out he was because all people who were sort of holding his, holding him over the neck of the capitol, were awarded big committee assignments this week. and ultimately, these moderates, or whatever you want to call them, none of them voted against the rules package a few days later. they have not in any way shape or form shown any willingness to defy the right, which they seem frankly scared of. to me that is the dynamic that will be defining to what the republicans look like and yet, the republican party elders have been commissioning various forms of us a top cities to figure out what went wrong in 2022. and it doesn t take a rocket scientist to understand that the lesson from these midterms where republicans lost a seat in the senate, and have a house majority by four votes, the lesson to put paul gosar and lauren boebert on plumb powerful
wing of the party? do this enough, with enough, you know, conspiracy theorist fear mongering anti-vax republicans and the more, and i ll put it in quotes, mainstream wing of the party could revolt. any talk of mccarthy losing support this early in the game? not at this moment. and this is going to be one of the most important gut check questions for the moderate wing of the republican party. are they willing to respond in kind and say speaker mccarthy, if you give these people too much of what they want, if you side with 10% of the most hard right members, then you will have a problem on the moderate mainstream wing. we ve seen over the last 12 years that i ve covered the house republican caucus that conservative members, most conservative members, they flex power. they are willing to tolerate a high level of chaos on the floor of the chamber to get what what they want. moderate members don t have the same willingness to flex their
a mainstream republican and the reaction was a screaming face emoji. throughout this process, there was a lot of anger from more moderate mainstream republicans at the fact that 10% of the most right wing republicans were in their view holding the other 90% hostage. and there was always this insistence that there were no committees promised. it was never like i need you to put me on this committee or i won t vote for you, but we know that the members told me and other reporters that one of the things that they demanded was what they called conservative representation on committees. what they meant is membership of the far right freedom caucus on these plumb committee assignments. it appears that they got that, alex. riddle me this. kevin mccarthy agreed to a one vote threshold to oust him as speaker. so the far right seems to be winning this hand, but does not a certain amount of political capital lie with the nonmaga-ish
about. today, in dueling out when he assignments, three congressman who really literally led the charges against him mccarthy, matt gaetz, andy bates and chip roy, they have all gained seats on the powerful judiciary committee. and scott perry secured a seat on the foreign affairs committee. and mccarthy awarded three of the extreme republicans powerful committee seats. two of those people were previously kicked off people in the last congress. extremists and conspiracy theorist marjorie taylor greene who is calling for the execution of democratic leaders and stripped of her committee assignments due to her dangerous rhetoric, today marjorie taylor greene got not one but two seats on two of the most powerful committees in congress. the homeland security committee and the oversight committee. and paul gosart, he also got a