of matters throughout this congress. you bring up impeachment. kevin mccarthy has said that if the facts and the situation rises to the level of a need for an impeachment inquiries, that if they got to that need for an impeachment inquiry, they would go there. the understanding and assumption is that a formal vote would be needed to actually open up that inquiry which of course no democrats are voting for that. kevin mccarthy is going to have to do it all on his own. that s going to put a number of biden district republicans in a tough spot. again, another fine line he s being forced to walk because of the former president. yeah, that s a real problem for him, for the republicans sitting in biden won districts, there s so many of these radical positions that the mtgs are trying to get them to take, the more extreme members are trying to get them to take, the lauren
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyThe controversy over Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” is getting bigger by the day. The cable network Country Music Television (CMT) has pulled the new music video to Aldean’s song as backlash mounted against both its filming location—a famous lynching site—and its lyrical content. As one might have predicted, all of our loudest conservative luminaries—your Lauren Boeberts and Kevin Sorbos and Roseanne Barrs—have already come out of the woodwor
george costanza. is this a costanza-like strategy? is she costanza-ing the house freedom caucus? i don t know. this has been one of the most vexing stories. it s taking advantage of the fact that not everyone is in the same capitol complex to stop something from happening which eventually will be happening, being kicked out of the house freedom caucus. the dynamics of this congress are so fascinating. now that republicans have the power of the gavel, we re even watching the far right side of this conference start to splinter off. i mean, again, i didn t see marjorie taylor greene ever being a tight ally of kevin mccarthy, but you see her there on the screen from during the speaker battle, the debt ceiling battle. she s paid attacks with the people she came up with in the freedom caucus, the lauren boeberts and the matt gaetzes. in some ways, it weakensthey ve.