Fox News Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume is “entering the chat” as young folks like to say. The chat we are referring to is the debate about what is happening on the U.S. House floor. The Republican Party is failing to swiftly nominate a U.S. House speaker after barely securing a small minority in what was supposed to be a red-wave election last November.
Of course, U.S. House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was expected to jump from minority leader to house speaker. He has even moved into the chambers of the speaker, and U.S. House Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has asked him to move back out in an official manner. Nothing so dramatic in congress or the GOP has been seen in a long long time.
Many Republican voters feel as if they are losing their country in some ways. This has upped the ante for some tough-line congressmen and women, who are doing their best to represent their constituents. Many at Fox News, although perhaps not all, seem to be pushing the idea that it’s best for the GOP to roll over and let McCarthy take over the house speakership and move on, despite his support for monument removal and vast spending of U.S. taxpayer money on other nations, not to mention his work against MAGA primary candidates, all in our view.
Brit Hume is one who is not happy about what is happening and he took a direct potshot at U.S. House Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) for his role in going along with the “insurgency” so to speak. Hume tweeted:
“It is hard to see what’s “effective and constructive” about using the leverage afforded by his party’s narrow majority to defy the will of the overwhelming majority of his Republican colleagues.”
It is hard to see what’s “effective and constructive” about using the leverage afforded by his party’s narrow majority to defy the will of the overwhelming majority of his Republican colleagues. https://t.co/di80vQzfde
— Brit Hume (@brithume) January 4, 2023
Hume’s tweet was a quote tweet to a Washington Free Beacon article that was tweeted out with the caption:
“Rep. Byron Donalds: “I didn’t come to D.C. being interested in becoming Speaker of the House. But, I also understand that part of my responsibility is to make sure that our conference gets to a point where we are doing the things in an effective and constructive way.”
Hume is largely a well-liked pundit, as are many on the right. However, things do get contentious during times like these, and the line between pundit and voter/constituent is more and more blurry with Twitter and other social media websites these days as well.
It will be interesting to see how the GOP ends up figuring all this mess out, and if Fox News pundits change any of their opinions throughout this process, or perhaps long after it’s over.
