Speaker McCarthy had listened to what Judicial Watch was saying, had listened to me, he'd still be speaker, frankly, if he had drawn a line in the sand, at least on one thing, saying, well, you know, we're not going to fund the government absent a reform in this area. Pick one. And obviously the Republic is facing multiple threats, but even if he had picked one, I think he would have rallied Republicans to a side of all stripes and gotten through something positive. 

But instead, it was this utter collapse. And so the challenge for the next speaker is, in my view, that they should be pushing again for a line in the sand or highlighting what lines they don't think can be crossed in terms of future government funding fights. What are they willing to fight for? What are they willing to say, no, we won't proceed unless this happens? And specifically, again, as I highlighted in the statement that we showed earlier, we can't wait. 

They're trying to jail Trump now. The election interference is happening now. The censorship is happening now. The violations of your civil rights are happening now. Our military is being abused now. Unborn babies are being killed with tax dollars now. You name it. This Biden administration is abusing Americans six ways to Sunday, all as of Saturday, with the full funding of Congress and support. And so now it's going to come up in 45 days, right? And they're going to decide, well, if they don't have all these various appropriation bills settled upon between the House and the Senate, and that's not going to happen. 

I'm just telling you now, I don't think it's going to happen. There's going to be another continuing resolution fight. And the question for the new speaker should be, before he is elected speaker, what are you going to do? Are you going to do what McCarthy did, which is rule out any possible government shutdown? And the government really never shuts down, only portions of the government shut down. And of course, they can work it in a way that the shutdown only affects the worst of government, right, as opposed to the government necessities plus can still be funded? Or are they going to just do what McCarthy did, which is get rats with moderate Republicans, liberal Republicans, just the fun government, just keep on keeping on with this terrible situation we're in close. 

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