cover, but it it also means that a lot of these red state concerns will be looked at more closely because steve scalise knows if they have to vote a certain way he has to answer to his friend who put him in charge. there is finally someone from the republican south in republican leadership which i think in many ways make sense. luke russert, thank you as always, my friend for the latest and breakingest. kate naseri and the huffington post media group howard feinman. as luke said steve scalise does not like to raise the debt limit which is one of the most primary and basic functions of the u.s. congress. how much is john boehner ruling this day? think he rules it in part, but i think in an odd way it may be an advantage for him to finally have a tea party person in leadership especially one from the south, especially one who has expressed these kinds of
be running for reelection and at this point it s a stabilizing vote that the leadership wants to stay in a place where they just don t make too many wave, right? that was part of why mccarthy ascended in the first place because they didn t want a huge shake-up to disrupt what they have going on until january. kate, let me ask you a follow-up question since you re underneath the cap toll dome. how did scalise win this? to what degree stutsman was a kingmaker and gave his vote to rosscum or scalise? do we have a read on internal mechanics. i know they don t release the final vote tally, but do you know anything about what happened in that room? i don t know anything about the mechanics and the details and i know that scalise walked in with all ofs this whips and supporters behind him sort of as a show of, hey, look at everyone i have, and i think that really what it came down to was just as
views because leadership does require compromise, at least in theory it does, and now we ll get a real test to see at least a portion of the tea party especially the southern faced portion, the one that would like to say no to everything and having to help and in some way govern, and so in a way, it gives it gives it gives john boehner a window into and a tie to the disruptive branch of his own majority in the house and it will be interesting to see how he can work with scalise. and scalise will have to try, i think. kate, jason chafits has the quote of the day, look at how many legislative days left there are. you get to whip the august recess. good luck with that. written in there is who really cares? that s one reading of the situation, but on the other, this election is it does set
maneuvering to oust boehner and i think mccarthy would have trouble if he would attempt to do so. so my guess is that you re looking at the leadership not only for right now, but assuming boehner wants to stay, and i think he does for the next session of congress and by the way, in terms of what it means for legislation, none of this in the legislative terms i m not sure how much any of this matters because none of the reps were prepared to move on anything to move with democrats and barack obama. kate, the readout from politico is new leaders will be focussed on self-preservation. well, what have they been focused on for the last year? does it i mean, to howard s point, is there anything we can expect from this house other than, you know sort of vanity votes? no, frankly. as chaffetz says we have the august recess and everyone will
that many have ignored. house republicans elect a new majority leader. kevin mccarthy. i congratulated him last night and he said not so soon. mccarthy join john boehner can they control tea party figures in the caucus. the kamikaze caucus. steve school ease appears likely. a lot turned toward scolese and protects john boehner. he is sort of a tea partier. he s shown a desire and ability to work with the leadership. not mckarthy? it s that s the million dollar question. you never know what s going to happen. i was thinking about it and i was praying for the republicans in church as i do at least every sunday. house republicans have new leadership. there is a new number two in the u.s. house of representatives and a new whip. in a vote that took place just moments ago california congressman kevin mccarthy ascended from majority whip to majority leader in the sudden sweepstakes for house republican power, a sweepstakes that were, of course, precipitate