{"id":1122524,"date":"2023-01-28T17:11:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T22:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/what-is-going-on-between-kevin-mccarthy-and-marjorie-taylor-greene\/1122524\/"},"modified":"2023-01-28T17:11:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T22:11:42","slug":"what-is-going-on-between-kevin-mccarthy-and-marjorie-taylor-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/what-is-going-on-between-kevin-mccarthy-and-marjorie-taylor-greene\/1122524\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Going On Between Kevin McCarthy And Marjorie Taylor Greene?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What Is Going On Between Kevin McCarthy And Marjorie Taylor Greene?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Ben Sellers via Headline USA<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

The unusual relationship between new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., saw another twist Monday after the New York Times<\/em><\/a> quoted McCarthy as pledging his undying loyalty to the second-term congresswoman.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI will never leave that woman<\/strong>,\u201d McCarthy told a friend in a private conversation reported by the Times<\/em>. \u201cI will always take care of her.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Frightening. Kevin McCarthy on Marjorie Taylor Greene: \u201cI will never leave that woman. I will always take care of her.\u201d (New York Times) pic.twitter.com\/SDfnk7BioZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mike Sington (@MikeSington) January 23, 2023<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Photos of the two becoming unusually close on the House floor began to surface during the votes for House speaker in early January.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Greene, a member of the House Freedom Caucus<\/a>, surprised many by breaking rank with other conservatives to voice her staunch support of the centrist and often ineffectual McCarthy.<\/p>\n

She quickly lashed out at his detractors after the GOP secured a slimmer-than-expected House majority in the November midterm election.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to tell you how shortsighted and ridiculous that is,\u201d Greene said in November Steve Bannon\u2019s \u201cWar Room\u201d podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is pathetic, the people that are running out saying it\u2019s his fault,\u201d she continued. \u201cNo, that is a lazy, pathetic, wimpy, easy mindset. They just want one thing and then they want to carry on without doing the hard work\u2014the real changes in the Republican Party and the way we fight the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ostensibly in return for her loyalty, McCarthy promptly reinstated Greene\u2019s committee assignments, which had been revoked in an (at the time) unprecedented partisan move by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, D-Calif.<\/p>\n

Her appointment to the House Homeland Security and Oversight committees roiled leftists, who claimed she was unqualified for the plum posts.<\/p>\n

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Asked if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene should be on Homeland Security and Oversight Committees after previously embracing 9\/11 conspiracy theories, GOP Rep. McCaul says, “She has matured, I think. She realizes she doesn’t know everything.\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/nvA1rMizYa<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/b6RXExFAPZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 This Week (@ThisWeekABC) January 22, 2023<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the Times<\/em>, McCarthy also \u201cspent hours on the phone trying to cajole senior executives at Twitter to reactivate her personal account after she was banned last year for violating the platform\u2019s coronavirus misinformation policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

LOVE, REPUBLICAN STYLE?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It remained unclear, despite speculation, whether there was a romantic component to the relationship.<\/p>\n

Greene was recently divorced amid allegations of infidelity. McCarthy\u2019s marital situation is also the subject of intrigue.<\/p>\n

Although he and his wife, Judy<\/a>, have been together since 1992 and have two adult children, he was foisted into the center of speculation after then-Rep. Madison Cawthorn<\/a>, R-N.C., hinted that McCarthy might be aware of drug-fueled orgies<\/a> involving Republican members of the Swamp.<\/p>\n

McCarthy subsequently went on record saying he had \u201clost his trust\u201d<\/a> in Cawthorn.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The nature of McCarthy\u2019s relationship with his former landlord, RINO pollster Frank Luntz<\/a>, who is himself a close friend of Hunter Biden, also raised questions<\/a> about whether McCarthy\u2019s unconventional lifestyle might conflict with his leadership ability.<\/p>\n

McCarthy was previously accused<\/a> of conducting an affair with former Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-N.C., who bears a striking ressemblance to Greene.<\/p>\n

Those allegations, based on an anonymous Wikipedia entry, were blamed for derailing an earlier bid for speaker in 2015 after the Freedom Caucus forced the ouster of weepy-eyed ex-Rep. John Boehner<\/a>, R-Ohio.<\/p>\n

After McCarthy dropped out, members settled instead on failed vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan<\/a>, R-Mich.<\/p>\n

MARRIED TO THE SWAMP?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Some have posited an alternative\u2014although no less unseemly\u2014theory to explain Greene\u2019s flirtation with the D.C. Establishment, citing a personnel change as the driving force.<\/p>\n

A highly placed conservative GOP staffer on the Hill, speaking on the condition of anonomity, told Headline USA that a shift in Greene\u2019s staff \u201cappears to have heavily influenced her shift toward the swamp,\u201d <\/strong>especially when her current chief of staff, Ed Buckham, assumed the reins.<\/p>\n

Buckham, a longtime Washington insider, was once chief of staff to Majority Whip Tom Delay before forming a K Street lobbying firm called Alexander Strategy Group. He was forced to close the firm and left the lobbying world in the aftermath of the poltical corruption prosecution of his close associate Jack Abramoff until he resurfaced to lead Greene\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n

Yet, some, including McCarthy, have praised the mollifying effect that Greene\u2019s new alliances have had in helping bring her into the mainstream after a bumpy first term.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re going to be in a fight, you want Marjorie in your foxhole,\u201d McCarthy explained in a brief interview for the Times<\/em> article.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen she picks a fight, she\u2019s going to fight until the fight\u2019s over,\u201d he added. \u201cShe reminds me of my friends from high school, that we\u2019re going to stick together all the way through<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n

Ben Sellers is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at<\/em> twitter.com\/realbensellers<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 01\/28\/2023 – 20:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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