Fox News host Tucker Carlson says the ongoing “chaos” surrounding Congressional Republicans’ bid to elect a House Speaker is “refreshing.”
House Republicans repeatedly failed to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy to lead the chamber on Tuesday, creating an intraparty rift that will remain unresolved until Wednesday, when voting resumes.
On Tuesday night’s show, Carlson celebrated McCarthy’s ongoing struggle with members of his own party, which has so far included three failed election rounds and 20 members of his faction turning against him.
He advised McCarthy to seriously consider releasing Jan. 6 information to the public and investigating the FBI for corruption if he is to earn the speakership.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy failed three times on Tuesday to get the votes needed to become speaker of the House of Representatives
“The fact that this race has not yet been decided is described by many on the Internet as ’embarrassing’,” said Carlson.
“It’s embarrassing when you favor the Soviet consensus of the Democratic Party’s internal elections, where voting is just a formality and all the really big decisions — the meaningful ones — are made years in advance by the donors,” he said.
Carlson argued that Republicans’ infighting in picking their leader was a sign of democracy, in contrast to Democrats who consistently backed a pre-selected candidate.
“But if you prefer democracy to oligarchy. If you prefer real debates about really important issues. It’s pretty refreshing to see. Yes, it’s a bit messy, but that’s the way it’s meant to be,” he said.
He further chided McCarthy as a gifted politician but an opportunistic man with little ideological loyalty.
“McCarthy is not particularly conservative. He is actually ideologically agnostic. He is flexible. His actual constituency is the lobbying community in Washington. So if you have sincere political beliefs, it’s annoying to watch,” he said.
“On the other hand, to be fair, this is politics and McCarthy has strengths. It’s not easy being a public speaker when the house is so divided.
“And in a way, Kevin McCarthy is perfect for that. He knows about politics. No small thing,’ he added.
Because the group of 20 Republicans who have so far denied McCarthy the speakership have yet to put forward another candidate for leadership of the House, any path forward is uncertain.
So, Tucker said, there are still steps McCarthy can take to try and secure the top job he’s looking for.
Tucker advised McCarthy to release all documents and videos related to the Jan. 6 Capitol break-in to the public
In addition to appointing Rep. Thomas Massie to head a new Frank Church committee to expose increased FBI surveillance and corruption
Carlson said McCarthy must immediately commit to releasing all documents and videos related to the Jan. 6 capitol breach and subsequent actions by Congress.
He stressed that the information should not be passed through a congressional committee or released piecemeal, but should be released to the public in a two-pack.
And added that McCarthy should promise to appoint Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie — a staunch libertarian — to head a new Frank Church Committee to investigate FBI corruption.
Frank Church was a Democratic Senator from Idaho who served several decades in the last century.
In 1975, Church was stunned when the committee that bore his name found out about the vast surveillance state operated by the National Security Agency, an agency most Americans didn’t even know existed at the time.
Of the agency’s ability to spy on ordinary Americans, he said, “That ability could be flipped onto the American people at any moment, and no American would have more privacy, so is the ability to monitor anything: phone calls, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There’s no place to hide,’ he said.