WASHINGTON — The night before the start of a humiliating and historic five-day floor fight in Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s quest to become speaker, Rep. Matt Gaetz, McCarthy’s chief tormentor, handed him a list of demands from a hard-right faction ensuring that if McCarthy’s victory did occur, it would only be a pyrrhic one. It was Monday, Jan. 2, and McCarthy, soon to move into his new suite of offices, rejected the list outright. “You just want to be speaker,” he told Gaetz, according to two Republic
Rep. Matt Gaetz speaks to reporters at the Capitol, in Washington on Jan. 4, 2023.
In the three weeks since McCarthy ultimately agreed to the price of the portrait, Gaetz’s role in the melodrama has only entrenched his stature as an attention-craving political arsonist adored by the Trump wing of the GOP — but also, House Republican leaders begrudgingly say, as a lawmaker with new powers.
His past is not that of a judicious legislator who might be depended on to hold a fractious and wafer-thin Republican majority together. The second-ranking Republican leader, Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, had chimed in that Gaetz’s rhetoric after the riot was “potentially illegal.” Gaetz fired back, “This is the behavior of weak men, not leaders.” A day later, Scalise offered a public apology — with the result, according to a close associate of the two men, that they had made peace. The same did not hold true with McCarthy, the associate added.
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