{"id":341063,"date":"2022-11-21T07:22:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T07:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=341063"},"modified":"2022-12-01T07:44:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T07:44:26","slug":"marjorie-taylor-greene-will-be-the-real-speaker-behind-the-scenes-even-if-kevin-mccarthy-gets-the-job-former-gop-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/marjorie-taylor-greene-will-be-the-real-speaker-behind-the-scenes-even-if-kevin-mccarthy-gets-the-job-former-gop-congressman","title":{"rendered":"Marjorie Taylor Greene will be the real Speaker behind the scenes even if Kevin McCarthy gets the job: Former GOP congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. Jabin Botsford\/The Washington Post via Getty Images Former GOP congressman Joe Walsh said Rep. Kevin McCarthy will just be Speaker in name. He said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will be the one in control, even if McCarthy wins the post. McCarthy has to pander to Greene and her allies to get enough votes to be Speaker, per Walsh. Former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh says Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will control Rep. Kevin McCarthy behind the scenes, should he be chosen as Speaker of the Republican-led Congress in 2023. &#8220;Look, McCarthy will probably be Speaker, but let&#8217;s be real &#8212; Marjorie Taylor Greene these next two years will be Speaker of the House,&#8221; Walsh told MSNBC&#8217;s Katie Phang on Sunday.&nbsp;&#8220;She will have McCarthy by the short hairs every single day of the week for the next two years.&#8221; &#8220;McCarthy knows that. All McCarthy wants is to become Speaker. So<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;She will have McCarthy by the short hairs every single day of the week for the next two years,&#8221; said Joe Walsh on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}