Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee for, among other things, sex-trafficking a child. The representative got bad news today when it was reported that Joel Greenberg, Gaetz’s former close friend, is cooperating with the committee. Greenberg…
It might have been embarrassing, and it might have given the enemies in the political class ample opportunities to snicker and hurl insults. But at the end of the day, the result reached when Mike Johnson won a 220–209 vote…
Do you want the speaker of the House to speak, or do you want the speaker of the House to herd cats? If it’s the latter, and it usually is, a congressman in his second term seems like the wrong…
There is an element in the Republican Party that is completely at peace with losing elections. All of them: Races for the White House. Congress. The speakership. You name it. Even when party leaders win, they find a way to…
At 11 a.m., Wednesday morning, the House of Representatives met on the floor to cast their votes for Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s replacement — and, once again, in classic congressional style, instead of getting behind Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) Republicans only…
I’m writing this on Thursday afternoon, just a couple of hours away from The American Spectator’s annual Robert L. Bartley Gala — and if I didn’t see you there, it means you have missed out and simply must remedy the…
At his farewell press conference following his removal from the House speakership, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy said this of his leading GOP opponents, notably, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz: They are not conservatives, and they do not have the right to…
In early January, as then-future and now-former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was in the midst of the political fight of his life, this column excoriated him as an “empty suit and a quintessential Swamp creature … whose main lodestar…
In this episode of The Spectacle podcast, hosts Scott McKay and Melissa Mackenzie continue their conservative news and commentary. Topics of the day include everything from the sorry state of civics education and why justice in America might be dying…
All week long I’ve been watching conservative pundits screech and rend their clothing while opportunistic Democrats belly-laugh and make clearly dishonest statements about D.C. dysfunction in the wake of Kevin McCarthy’s conversion — at the hands of, perhaps, Florida’s next…