{"id":1747593,"date":"2022-11-22T06:05:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T11:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747593"},"modified":"2022-11-22T07:03:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T12:03:07","slug":"gingrich-champions-mccarthys-planned-ouster-of-hard-left-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gingrich-champions-mccarthys-planned-ouster-of-hard-left-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich Champions McCarthy\u2019s Planned Ouster Of Hard-Left Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fgingrich-champions-mccarthys-planned-ouster-of-hard-left-dems%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=1747593&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1242127763.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/newt-gingrich-nancy-pelosi-set-precedent-top-dems-booted-committees\">praised<\/a>\u00a0Kevin McCarthy, who has the inside track to follow in his footsteps, for announcing his plan to oust hard-core leftist Democrats from key House committees if he wields the gavel next year.<\/p>\n<p>Gingrich, the onetime Georgia congressman who ran the House from 1995-1999, told Fox News Monday that current Speaker Nancy Pelosi was the first to purge committees of lawmakers perceived as extreme. By declaring Ilhan Omar, D-MN, and California Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell unfit for committee roles, McCarthy is just following her lead, Gingrich said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Nancy Pelosi set the precedent,\u201d said Gingrich, whose 1994 Contract with America led the GOP to a 54-seat gain and its first house majority in 40 years. \u201cShe did something that had never been done before and reached into the minority party to decide who could and could not serve on some committees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Kevin McCarthy is following her precedent,\u201d Gingrich said. \u201cSo the Democrats have nothing to complain about because they started this dance and frankly, the three people he\u2019s picked so totally deserve being kicked off committees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi and fellow House Democrats last year voted to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, (R-GA), from the Education and Budget committees because of her prior statements on conspiracy theories including QAnon. Eleven Republicans went along with the vote, although other Republicans said Greene\u2019s objectionable statements had preceded her election.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy, the current House Minority Leader, is poised to become Speaker after Republicans took a majority of House seats in last week\u2019s midterm elections. He told Fox News on Sunday that he would bar Schiff, who spread disinformation about the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, and\u00a0Swalwell, who allegedly had an affair with a Chinese spy, from serving on the House Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEric Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the public sector. Why would we ever give him a security clearance in the secrets to America? So I will not allow him to be on Intel,\u201d McCarthy said.\u00a0\u201cYou have Adam Schiff, who had lied to the American public time and again. We will not allow him to be on the Intel Committee either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, McCarthy had reiterated a previous vow not to allow Omar to serve on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, citing her past anti-Semitic statements in which she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/ilhan-omar-us-unspeakable-atrocities-hamas-taliban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compared the U.S. and Israel to the Taliban<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know I made another promise to you last time,\u201d said McCarthy, who spoke at the\u00a0Republican Jewish Coalition\u2019s 2022 leadership meeting in Las Vegas. \u201cThere was this congresswoman, Ilhan Omar. I remember what she said about me. I remember what she said about Israel. I remember what she said about the [U.S.-Israel] relationship. I remembered it so much, I promised you last year she would no longer be on foreign affairs. I\u2019m keeping that promise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gingrich said McCarthy is on solid ground keeping Democrats he considers untrustworthy off of key committees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdam Schiff made a career out of lying to the American people while serving as chairman of the Intelligence Committee without any question, just plain, flat-out lying,\u201d Gingrich said. \u201cSwalwell has had a relationship with a Chinese communist; that\u2019s unimaginable for somebody who\u2019s going to have security clearance. And of course, Omar is a viciously anti-Israel, anti-Semitic orator who has consistently violated the norms of civilized behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think those are three pretty good targets. And I commend Speaker-designate McCarthy\u00a0for taking them head-on,\u201d Gingrich added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich\u00a0praised\u00a0Kevin McCarthy, who has the inside track to follow in his footsteps, for announcing his plan to oust hard-core leftist Democrats from key<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1747124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1747124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}