Let it never be said that Eric Swalwell and Dan Goldman do not know how to handle clowns like Matt Gaetz. Played him like a right fiddle they did.
Source: Newsweek
On Saturday, the last day before the funding deadline would pass and a government shutdown would begin, McCarthy put forward a "clean" stopgap funding bill forward, lacking any of his party's requested cuts. The bill passed in the House with strong bipartisan support, 335-91, with 209 Democrats voting in favor of it. The measure, which was passed in the Senate by 88-9 and signed into effect by President Joe Biden before midnight, will keep the government funded through mid-November, buying the House more time to negotiate on a long-term funding arrangement.
While the move drew the expected rancor from the further-right House Republicans who had been clashing with McCarthy, it also drew some rare praise from the opposite side of the aisle. Representative Eric Swalwell, a Democrat representing California's 14th District, came to the speaker's defense on Saturday against criticism from GOP members like Matt Gaetz and Andy Biggs.
A sly compliment from Eric Swalwell for McCarthy, who he normally has no use for.
Rep. Dan Goldman followed with more effusive praise - and the bait. Goldman also brought up Matt Gaetz's manhood, or lack thereof.
...while another Democrat couldn't bring himself to praise the execrable Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Gomez did engage in baiting Gaetz and the rest of them.
And lo and behold it worked, just as they knew it would, with Gaetz up bright and early Sunday morning, promising to get rid of McCarthy.
