{"id":1741573,"date":"2022-11-16T18:47:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T23:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741573"},"modified":"2022-11-16T18:47:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T23:47:56","slug":"rep-matt-gaetz-is-about-to-become-a-player-wait-and-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-matt-gaetz-is-about-to-become-a-player-wait-and-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Matt Gaetz Is About To Become A Player \u2014 Wait And See"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-matt-gaetz-is-about-to-become-a-player-wait-and-see%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741573&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Matt Gaetz was once all in on Team Trump, but after the former president\u2019s dismal showing in the mid-term elections, the Florida Republican canceled his plans to attend Trump\u2019s launch of his 2024 campaign Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz sees the writing on the wall: The king is dead, long live the king. And he also understands that Republicans will have a thin margin in the House, so if they want to get anything done, they\u2019ll need some help from Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>In a pre-emptive move, Gaetz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/repmattgaetz\/status\/1592286771517083648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">laid out<\/a> a series of moves that he says should get bipartisan support \u2014 and they were so common sense and basic that he drew praise from some unlikely places, like the liberal site Reddit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that no member of Congress by House rule should be allowed to accept a donation for their campaign from a federal lobbyist or a federal political action committee. That money all has strings attached to it and anybody who tries to tell you otherwise is lying,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when members take hundreds of thousands of dollars from lobbyists and PACs, they work for them more than they work for their constituents. And guess what? I intend to offer that amendment on the House floor in January, and I already have Democrats ready to vote for it, maybe even all of them,\u201d Gaetz said.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly right. Gaetz already doesn\u2019t take PAC money, but it should clearly be the law of the land for exactly the reasons Gatez laid out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second thing I would suggest is that if someone is a member of Congress, they should be prohibited from lobbying for life. Why is it so hard to say that you should choose one side or the other to be on? You\u2019re either in the lawmaking game or you\u2019re in the influence-peddling game, and those who choose to be in the influence peddling game, go ahead, but you should sacrifice that when you get the privilege to represent 750,000 people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz said he plans to offer that as amendment on January 3, adding he expects \u201cthere will be Democrats voting for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old lawmaker, now in his fourth term, hit another hot-button that both Republicans and Democrats could (and really should) support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will also introduce an amendment to have a ban on members of Congress trading individual stocks. How can we say that that is not something that dilutes our trust in markets and in governance when people are centrally able to bet on the outcomes that they have an ability to somewhat control?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Good question. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a maximum net wealth of as much as $251 million, according to USA Today. Here\u2019s the thing: Her and her husband\u2019s fortune has grown $140 million since 2008, thanks in part to her husband\u2019s stock trades.<\/p>\n<p>But Gaetz wasn\u2019t done. \u201cFinally, I would observe something that has really worked well in the state of Florida. A single subject rule, a bill coming to the floor should only deal with one subject. I was incensed as a freshman when I had to vote on the farm bill, and whether or not to authorize war in Yemen, in the same vote, and we could still have broad bills that relate to insurance or education or appropriations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the notion that we lash all these things together, does not serve our constituents and the American people and I would expect if we\u2019re in the majority, Democrats will vote for my amendment for a single subject rule,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Spot on. That\u2019s how both parties deride the other. A bill labelled \u201cProtect All Furry Puppies\u201d (PAFP), with a poison-pill attachment, gets shot down, and one party then says the other party hates puppies. It\u2019s so stupid you\u2019d think it didn\u2019t happen, but it does, all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz\u2019s common-sense words brought tears to the eyes of liberals on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TikTokCringe\/comments\/yviu2n\/heartbreaking_the_worst_person_you_know_makes_a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reddit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m watching this video baffled like this guy has a good head on his shoulders, but then I see the face the words are coming out of and I\u2019m just broken like Xbox with a red ring,\u201d a guy named \u201cRLVNTone\u201d wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMankeyBusiness\u201d weighed in, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe himself is the only Republican who takes no PAC money (if I understand it correctly). He might be wrong about everything else but if him [sic] and the dems get this through in January (very low chance even if dems had a majority) I will give him heaps of praise for that. Money in politics is the number one thing keeping popular policy like minimum wage increase from passing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, you\u2019re on notice. Gaetz is onto something. Whether it works, whether it plays out like he pledges remains to be seen. But he\u2019s ahead of the Democrats on issues they care about, and that, at the very least, is fun.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Matt Gaetz was once all in on Team Trump, but after the former president\u2019s dismal showing in the mid-term elections, the Florida Republican canceled his plans to attend Trump\u2019s launch of his 2024 campaign Tuesday night. Gaetz sees the writing on the wall: The king is dead, long live the king. 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