Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel B. Pollak said Republicans had done something 'monumentally stupid' by ousting Kevin McCarthy.
Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel B. Pollak pushed back Wednesday against arguments that former Speaker Kevin McCarthy had to go, saying that Republicans had done something “monumentally stupid.”
“Republicans found a way, somehow, to fire the most popular member of Congress for doing his job,” Pollak said.Stinchfield challenged Pollak to cite any of McCarthy’s accomplishments. He replied by noting that McCarthy forced President Joe Biden to accept negotiations on the debt ceiling earlier this year, after Biden demanded an unconditional debt ceiling hike.
Sinchfield said that McCarthy had failed to move on impeaching the president, and attacked Republicans for bringing legal scholar Jonathan Turley to testify, instead of more explosive witnesses. Pollak noted that Turley was important — not just because impeachment inquiries have to start with constitutional foundations, but also because Turley opposed the inquiry until August, when hePollak also pointed out that some of the “Gang of Eight” who voted to get rid of McCarthy, like Rep.
Ultimately, Stinchfield agreed that McCarthy had been better than his predecessors. Pollak added that McCarthy was “not perfect, but the best that Republicans have had.”
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