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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/gop-house-majority-kevin-mccarthy-marjorie-taylor-greene

Remember Paul Ryan? He was House Speaker in 2018, the last time Republicans were in control. He left Congress quietly in the middle of the night. Well, not really, but sort of. Blaming identity politics and polarization, Ryan abruptly announced in April 2018 that hed be exiting at the end of his term the following January, just as Democrats assumed power. Ryan went on to join the board overseeing the place that helped cause so much of that polarization in the first place, Fox News. Ryan may have reaped the benefits of Donald Trump moving into the White Housetax cuts!but he didnt have the stomach for MAGA. The same cannot be said for my Kevin, the little nickname the former president has given to Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy helped rehabilitate Trump after the January 6 riots with a visit weeks later to Mar-a-Lago, where the two grinned side by side for a photo op. As fellow Republican Liz Cheney pointed out after McCarthys trip, Hes not just a former president. He provoked an attack on the Capitol, an attack on our democracy. And so I cant understand why you would want to go rehabilitate him.

Meanwhile, the queen of MAGA, Marjorie Taylor Greene, is more than ready for Republicans to be in charge and apparently expects the likely next Speaker to appease the base. Regarding McCarthy, she told The New York Times that to be the best Speaker of the House and to please the base, hes going to give me a lot of power and a lot of leeway. She even predicted Monday that shed be on committees investigating traitors and criminals. McCarthy has said he plans to put Greene back on committees, with some of her Trumpworld allies reportedly urging the likely Speaker to give her a plum seat on the House Oversight Committee. Imagine, from promoting QAnon conspiracies to possibly landing a key oversight post in Congress. We have to have the gavel, Greene said Tuesday in discussing her support for McCarthy. That is extremely important, because the gavel means subpoena power. And Republicans need subpoena power going over the next two years. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez texted me, I think one of the biggest concerns is if a party that has already tried to overturn the presidential election once will validate the results of the 2024 election or any other that they do not win. Now that is real nightmare fuel.