He’s the brand new man on the block however be careful, he’s been round.
No, we aren’t speaking about Republican Govs. Ron DeSantis of Florida, or Gregg Abbott of Texas or any of the opposite GOP governors or senators operating for president.
Nor are we speaking about Donald Trump, who within the face of great headwinds, is trying to be the Comeback Kid of 2024.
The “new” man is Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, 57, who’s scheduled to be elected Speaker of the House come January.
The Republican majority takeover of the House could also be slim, however McCarthy seems to have sufficient GOP votes to be elected Speaker. And when he does, he’ll develop into essentially the most highly effective Republican within the nation, and this consists of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump and all the remaining.
As Speaker, McCarthy may even be third in line to the presidency. The House additionally controls the facility of the purse.
And whereas he has mentioned that his first order of enterprise shall be to halt President Biden from hiring 87,000 IRS brokers to shake down already overburdened working Americans, he should first formally dump Nancy Pelosi. Which he’ll do regardless that Pelosi, 82, studying the election returns, has already stepped down from her Democrat management place, taking her octogenarian assistants together with her.
But now she should formally hand over the Speaker’s gavel to McCarthy, who for the subsequent two years will use it to analyze, fumigate and dismantle Joe Biden and his calamitous administration.
McCarthy’s second act shall be to dump three Democrats from their committee assignments — Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota for alleged anti-Semitic remarks, Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff of California from the House Intelligence Committee, one for his connection to a Chinese spy and the opposite for “lying” about Russian collusion.
In Schiff’s case, he may now be up Schiff’s Creek and not using a paddle.
And if McCarthy’s border press convention in El Paso, Texas final week is any indication of issues to come back, it’s, within the phrases of the immortal Bette Davis within the film traditional All About Eve — “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.”
At that press convention, McCarthy referred to as for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and promised an impeachment inquiry if he didn’t achieve this. Mayorkas to this point has refused to resign.
He additionally mentioned Republican-controlled House committees will maintain immigration hearings on the border and invite Democrats to take care of see what Biden’s reckless open border coverage has wrought.
Mayorkas is our Baghdad Bob — Minister of Information Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf — who informed reporters that there have been no Americans in Baghdad throughout the 2003 Iraq War whereas within the background U.S troops had been blowing up a statue of dictator Saddam Hussein.
In Mayorkas’ case, he has repeatedly insisted, regardless of opposite proof, that the southern border was safe as hundreds of immigrants overtly crossed into the nation. On his watch, some 5 million immigrants from nations all over the world have illegally crossed Mayorkas’ “secure” border since Mayorkas and Biden took workplace. That quantities to the whole inhabitants of Ireland.
In fiscal 2022 alone, 2.7 million illegals entered the nation, the very best quantity ever. And the numbers don’t account for the hundreds of getaways, together with criminals and terrorists. Nobody even is aware of who they’re.
Biden, Mayorkas and the border shall be simply one of many investigations McCarthy and the Republicans within the House will launch.
Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has promised a full-scale probe, backed by subpoena energy, into Hunter Biden’s questionable Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian enterprise dealings and their connection to the “Big Guy,” recognized as President Biden, his father.
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who will chair the House Judiciary Committee, has promised to delve into the Democrat politicization of the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI.
And there are extra, like Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal and the Chinese origins of COVID-19.
So, fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy journey.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”