News broke during Human Events with Jack Posobiec Friday that Jim Jordan was removed as the Republican House Speaker-designate after a tumultuous week of voting. Guest Richard Baris then revealed new insight that had yet to be reported at the time of the airing.
He said that when Jim Jordan went into the closed-door ballot vote earlier in the day, he tried to get the members to come together to get the job done and ask what they needed from him. Eight members who were firmly voting no reportedly said “We don't want anything from you. We want you to understand that what Matt Gates did, we're not accepting, we're not moving the house in the direction that the base wants us to move in, and you're never going to be Speaker.”
They were referring to Gaetz bringing forth the motion to vacate the House Speaker chair earlier in the month, resulting in Kevin McCarthy being ousted.
He slammed Republican representatives in Congress, saying that most of them “are posers.” Baris continued, “They never run on funding Ukraine first, they never run on bending over for the deep state, they never run on working with Democrats to make sure that progressive agenda items keep moving, government keeps getting bigger, and the deficits keep getting larger and the debt keeps getting to the point where we're not even able to pay it back.”
He said that time and time again, the representatives portray themselves as being truly conservative and “MAGA” when they run, but do not have their base’s interest once they take office.
“Then they go to Washington,” he stated. “And they lie and they like to hide behind a broken system.”
He explained that single-subject spending bills are “a big problem” for them. Jim Jordan “would not bend” on that issue.
“They liked the ability to say ‘I couldn't vote against this because it's an omnibus, I couldn't vote against that because we're not going to get everything we want in a continuing resolution.,’” Baris said.
He continued that they like to say “we did the best we could, this is as conservative as it gets.”
“They're not really what they run on.”
“This isn't about principle. This is about being corrupt, and being cowardly, and being stupid... And the numbers in the house right now are not enough to get Republicans where they want to be,” he concluded. “They're never going to be representative with this caucus.”
