# House Speaker Contest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770 **Category:** Politics & Elections **Created:** [November 12, 2022, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770 "2022-11-12T00:48:06Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 102
### Author: ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole) #### Post date: [December 21, 2022, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/102 "2022-12-21T05:04:30Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > House Freedom Caucus members are decrying it as a betrayal, which of course means that Kevin McCarthy is decrying it as a betrayal. But secretly I bet he’s relieved, as trying to pass any government funding bill early next year would have torn apart the caucus. At least this pushed back the date for that shit show. Over in [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wall-street-journal-editorial-board-known-for-its-conservatism-is-unhappy-with-republican-dysfunction-in-congress/976756) I linked a Wall Street Journal editorial written by their editorial board (which has always been distinctly conservative). They had this to say (among other things) that bears on what you just said: > Meanwhile, across the Capitol, Senate Republicans are doing Mr. McCarthy no favors by joining Democrats to pass a giant omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2023. Most House Republicans prefer a continuing resolution to fund the government only into early next year, when Republicans will have more leverage as the House majority. > > But Mitch McConnell and the Senate GOP don’t trust that Mr. McCarthy can deliver in January, or so they say. They won’t even give him the chance. [SOURCE](https://www.wsj.com/articles/republican-party-masochism-gop-house-kevin-mccarthy-andy-biggs-democrats-senate-nancy-pelosi-11671228536) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770)._