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b'If you are enjoying The Daily, please consider supporting us by becoming a subscriber.Speaker Kevin McCarthy took repeated victory laps over his alleged debt ceiling victory and the press obliged. He was hailed as underrated, brilliant, masterful and more, even though the debt ceiling \\u201cdeal\\u201d was only accomplished with the help of Democrats, yet again. bad takesDemocrats rescued McCarthy from his own hostage taking, but he got press like:\\u201cUnderestimated McCarthy emerges from debt deal empowered as speaker\\u201d \\u201cMcCarthy Earns the Speakership\\u201d\\u201c has strengthened his grip on power during the debt ceiling fight\\u201d \\u201cSpeaker Kevin McCarthy has shown \'abilities\' no one thought he had: Karl Rove\\u201d \\u201cThis principle was brilliantly implemented by Speaker McCarthy\\u2019s debt ceiling strategy\\u201d \\u201cKevin McCarthy earned his stripes as Republican speaker\\u201d McCarthy inhaled all of that hot air and announced giddily that his next agenda was to \\u201cRoot out wokeness in government, NO new $4 billion FBI building, Secure the border\\u201d. Wokeness, you\\u2019ve been put on notice, along with law enforcement!record scratch\\u2026 But then in less than a Scaramucci, it all went away again\\u2026. over an attempt to bring to the floor the \\u201cGas Stove Protection and Freedom Act\\u201d. You\\u2019re probably thinking: But the freedom of gas stoves has been on everyone\\u2019s mind, even though we know their freedom wasn\\u2019t at risk \\u2014 ever \\u2014 because we operate in a fact based universe, how could this super unimportant, non-issue of prohibiting the use of federal funds to ban gas stoves have been opposed?!? The Daily is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts/podcasts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.What would cause McCarthy\\u2019s own caucus to slap him publicly as he was bragging about \\u201cturning the ship\\u201d?Because the House Majority is so small, if Rep. Matt Gaetz and three of his friends decided to do so, they could block every bill from coming to the House floor for a vote. McCarthy would need Democrats to help him launch Republicans\\u2019 frequently kind of bonkers bills. How did Kevin McCarthy go from being an alleged brilliant strategist to having his own caucus refuse to allow a vote on a bill to stop something that isn\\u2019t real? reactionary nihilists watch and learnIt was Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FLA) who brought his \\u201cconcern\\u201d to the table along with 10 other House nihilistic reactionaries who identify as the \\u201cFreedom Caucus,\\u201d although no one has ever confirmed that they are indeed pro-freedom for anyone who isn\\u2019t a white, male, straight conservative. Gaetz crossed the aisle to join Democrats to block two gas stove bills, priorities for Republicans, because they are mad over that deal for which McCarthy is taking victory laps. Apparently, they can read, yet McCarthy didn\\u2019t anticipate that they would. Gaetz et al took their fury to the press, having learned the real lesson from the decade plus of Republican debt ceiling hostage taking: IF YOU WANT SOMETHING YOU CAN\\u2019T GET AND SHOULDN\\u2019T HAVE BECAUSE THE PEOPLE DENIED YOU THE NUMBERS, JUST TAKE A HOSTAGE.they found outThe Angry Right found out the truth about the deal and they\\u2019re not happy.After McCarthy managed to sell conservatives on pretending they got a good deal, McCarthy was hailed as brilliant and many, many bad takes were served about how he had proven himself someone to contend with over this \\u201cdeal\\u201d. The same \\u201cdeal\\u201d in which they prioritized rolling back IRS enforcement funding, which, if implemented according to their hopes, would actually\\xa0increase\\xa0the debt by billions. To add insult to injury, the great victory of Republicans was to force more people off of SNAP through work requirements (they call this \\u201cfreedom\\u201d). But\\u2026 that too will increase federal spending by $2.1 billion over 10 years because the added benefits pushed by Democrats will add \\u201calmost 80,000 people to the rolls in an average month.\\u201dthey don\\u2019t even trust McCarthy - demand deal in writing\\u201cUnfortunately, two weeks a deal was made and it broke away what we had made,\\u201d Rep. Chip Roy told reporters.Gaetz said: \\u201cWe took down the rule because we\'re frustrated at the way the place is operating. We\'re concerned that the fundamental commitments that allowed McCarthy to assume the speakership have been violated.\\u201dThey demand that Speaker Kevin McCarthy put in writing that he will go back to their January agreement. OR ELSE.undeniable humiliationIt was a historic humiliation. It\'s been more than two decades since the House voted against a rule. But it happened on Tuesday to Kevin McCarthy. As we wrote on PoliticusUSA, McCarthy might have saved face with the debt ceiling \\u201cdeal,\\u201d but he \\u201calready gave his critics everything to get the gavel, so the only thing left that his opponents could possibly want is for Kevin McCarthy not to be the Speaker of the House any longer.\\u201dThings were so humiliating that beltway types like Jake Sherman wrote, \\u201cAn incredible embarrassment for the House Republican leadership. The morning McCarthy tries to turn the page, conservatives slap him and his leadership team in the face.\\u201dthere might be hope for McCarthyThe \\u201cFreedom Caucus\\u201d gang were spotted going in to the Speaker\\u2019s office Tuesday afternoon close to 5 PM Eastern time, including Scott Perry, Dan Bishop, Byron Donalds, Chip Roy and Michael Cloud. humiliation is McCarthy\\u2019s secret powerIf Speaker Kevin McCarthy has a secret power, it\\u2019s enduring humiliation. McCarthy is Greg from Succession, riding Tom\\u2019s coattails, changing directions as the wind blows. He didn\\u2019t have an easy time getting voted to be Speaker \\u2014 and he lacks the consensus making power of a Nancy Pelosi type Speaker. But after 15 rounds of voting \\u2014 the most since the Civil War, he found himself holding the gavel, however tenuously. Then came the debt ceiling showdown initiated by representatives who identify as \\u201cconservatives\\u201d even though their actions are most often reactionary rather than conservative. Kevin McCarthy was bailed out again by Democrats and by President Biden, who allowed McCarthy to set the narrative that he had won hours before the President gave his version of events, which when finally given were praising bipartisanship. The deal, however, is a lot of moving around of funds: A shell game to hide the truth from the Freedom Caucus.Kevin McCarthy has shown one enduring strength as a politician: Humiliation rolls off of his back like water off of a duck\\u2019s back. Perhaps he expects humiliation. Most people have some core sense of self that wouldn\\u2019t allow this level of rather consistent humiliation, but not Kevin McCarthy. In the end, if he has the power, he seems happy.But how long will he be able to stave off the hungry beast of ever more histrionic Right wing demands?Thank you for reading The Daily. This post is public so feel free to share it.Top Stories From PoliticusUSA:CHRIS CHRISTIE TRASHES TRUMP IN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENTChris Christie came out of the gate and talked about Trump in the sort of blunt terms that other Republican presidential candidates have feared.CHRIS CHRISTIE\\u2019S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT TRIGGERS MARCO RUBIOChris Christie\'s announcement that he is running for the 2024 Republican nomination set Sen. Marco Rubio off on a tangent about his own 2016 campaign.TRUMP MAY HAVE A HUGE MARK MEADOWS PROBLEMTrump\'s lawyers were unaware that Mark Meadows was testifying, as the former chief of staff has been out of contact with Donald Trump.POWERFUL SENATE DEMOCRAT MAY SUBPOENA CLARENCE THOMAS SUGAR DADDY HARLAN CROWSenate Finance Committee Chair Sen. 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