Speaker Wannabe Jason Chaffetz: Bring On A Gov’t Shutdown And Debt Default!

He even said he would work with Democrats, noting that he shares a birthday with House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi.

And he demanded that the Obama administration name a special prosecutor to open up “a criminal probe” into allegations that the Secret Service leaked his personal information in an effort to intimate him. 11, unencumbered with conservative proposals to defund Planned Parenthood.

Chaffetz, a Mormon who worked in the private sector before being elected to Congress in 2008, has a pretty good conservative record.

“The speaker has huge power-we want to be very deliberate in how we make that decision”.

McCarthy was angered. Senate Majority Leader Mitchell McConnell (R-Kentucky) and others in the GOP establishment are not happy. “He’s absolutely flat-out wrong”, Chaffetz told reporters. “The question will be how many”, Mr. Plane said. “I want to hear what he is going to do to empower individual members”.

Conservatives have one problem with Chaffetz.

This summer, Chaffetz used his authority to strip Rep. Mark Meadows, a House Freedom Caucus founder from North Carolina, of his subcommittee chairmanship for voting against a procedural motion.

The changes could help Boehner’s likeliest successor, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, who is working to lock up support to become speaker but facing an unexpected challenge from Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz.

This is the scenario in which Chaffetz said he could envision himself winning: “I think I can be palatable to those 50 people that won’t and cannot vote for Kevin McCarthy”.

“We need a speaker who is an effective communicator”, Chaffetz told colleagues via email.

Rep. Reid Ribble, R-Wisconsin, said, “Absolutely because if you’re not going to support the candidate who comes out of the conference, you might as well be in the minority”. McCarthy says he never meant to make that suggestion. Hillary Clinton already uses it as a campaign sound bite. What are her numbers today?

Isn’t this why conservatives revolted against Boehner in the first place? He says the objective of the committee is to find out the truth and it has nothing to do with politics.

“That is a side issue, that was a mistake”. And numerous more establishment-aligned lawmakers are voicing fears about chaos on October 29 if McCarthy can’t get 218 votes. “Given that reality, uniting behind a candidate that can get to the 218 votes necessary to win the Speakership is critically important”. “That’s why I’m offering myself as a candidate, to try to bridge that divide”. Boehner might have been thinking of how hard it was to answer the pope’s call for a “renewed spirit of fraternity and solidarity”, a “spirit of cooperation”, and an environment in which people showed “respect for our differences and our convictions of conscience”. Doing so gave less extreme elements of the GOP, including Boehner, more credence, according to Lorenzo Morris, a political science professor at Howard University. And many Republicans around the country and in Washington have lost faith in the current GOP leadership.

Behind closed doors at the Capitol Hill Club, members of several conservative House group will ask the candidates about their policy positions – budget, debt, that kind of thing – and their strategy.

In a column that was circulated among House Republicans on Friday, Peggy Noonan from the Wall Street Journal was brutal, writing: “Mr. McCarthy is well-liked in the House, a veteran said to be a natural lover of the nuts and bolts”.