House conservatives’ hardball tactics anger moderates and leave House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the middle
“What’s going to hurt them is not supporting articles of impeachment,” Greene, the Georgia firebrand, told CNN. On the other side: Republicans in swing districts wary of the tactics embraced by Greene and others on the far right as they push their conference in a sharply conservative direction and away from the bread-and-butter issues they sold to voters. “I’m frustrated because I want to focus on the things that I was sent here to do,” said GOP Rep.
One GOP member, granted the condition of anonymity to speak freely, argued that the recent strategies used by the right flank are more about raising campaign cash and making splashy headlines than about pursuing a serious agenda, or going through the regular order process they fought for in the speaker’s race. “All of a sudden they throw a temper tantrum and don’t care if it goes through the regular order process they fought for,” the member told CNN. “It’s becoming quite clear the hypocrisy.
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