The GOP agenda is something else
Oh, and also they need to get to the bottom of the pandemic origins and figure out why kids were kept out of schools.
This is just a friendly reminder of the circus that’s raising its tent in Washington DC next week.
RICH EDSON, FOX NEWS: Congressman, there is a speakership race coming up in less than a week. Who is going to be Speaker?
REP. ANDY BIGGS: We will have to have that vote on January 3. Right now, nobody has 218 votes which is the magic number. I don’t we are going to see that until January 3. Maybe it will take a few ballots to shake that out.
EDSON: Is there a candidate you would support or that you want or think should be Speaker of the House?
BIGGS: Of course, I’m running. But there are some good people in our conference. I don’t want to put a name. I don’t want to put a target on their back, but there are several people that are very capable, actually more than just a few capable of being Speaker of the House. I think we will get a consensus candidate, and we will get it in fairly short order and move on.
EDSON: There is a congressman, David Valadao, who spoke about this, a colleague of yours and this is what he had to say about the speakership race.
EDSON: The argument goes that without backing leader McCarthy for Speaker and you are delaying the business of House Republicans, delaying oversight and delaying legislation. What about that?
BIGGS: Well, I think that’s not true and not accurate. Right now we have already seen the appointment of committee chairmen. We have legislation getting ready to go. We normally don’t even begin intense committee hearings and moving forward until late January. The committees could be populated today.
Mr. McCarthy has chosen not to do it. Why? Because he wants the leverage to try to get people to vote for him based on committee assignments. I don’t believe any of that is accurate.
I think David, I like David and I get it he has the district over from McCarthy. I understand. He will support him all the way. But there are other people should be there. When people start talking about those things, they forget the oeuvre, the body of work of Mr. McCarthy.
EDSON: Is there any scenario that you would ever vote for Leader McCarthy on any ballot, any scenario where he gets your vote?
BIGGS: I don’t think so. I do not think so. And here’s why. He’s got a body of work. You go back to ’17 and ’18. Look at the, look at why we had Democrats voting for the Republican budgets. Because the Republicans didn’t want those budgets, but the floor Leader, Mr. McCarthy, cut those deals with the Democrats. President Trump signed those budgets, but he said they were the worst budgets ever, and he was probably right, until the later budgets that we’ve seen from the Democrats.
I’m actually impressed that Biggs used the word ouevre on Fox News.
As someone crazy once said, “it will be wild!” starting with the speaker’s race itself.