Marjorie Taylor Greene Will Be House Speaker, Former GOP Congressman Says

Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman from Illinois, is calling House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy out for being a "hollow man" who will have to listen to everything Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, says—contending that Greene will essentially be the next Speaker of the House.

In an interview with MSNBC's Katie Phang on Sunday morning Walsh said, "Kevin McCarthy is a hollow man. Look this is too late, these House moderates who want Republicans to focus on immigration or healthcare or inflation, it's too late. The American people don't know who these House Republican moderates are. They know who Marjorie Taylor Greene is."

Walsh continued, saying, "McCarthy will probably be Speaker, but let's be real. Marjorie Taylor Greene these next two years will be the Speaker of the House. She will have McCarthy by the short hairs every single day of the week for the next two years."

The House Speaker election will take place in early January. Although McCarthy won his party's nomination to the role—and the GOP will hold a narrow majority in the House—it remains unclear if the California Republican can secure the 218 votes required to win the position. However, he is still widely viewed as the frontrunner.

Political analyst Craig Agranoff told Newsweek, "I do not think he will just listen to Marjorie Taylor Greene. Many will say he will just look to serve his own political purpose, but many realize that almost everyone acts this way. I think he will try and be a strategic leader, but I am not saying strong yet."

Across the aisle, Democrats are also weary of McCarthy's leadership. Representative Adam Schiff of California told ABC on Sunday that McCarthy "is a very weak leader of his conference."

Schiff continued, "It's going to be chaos with Republican leadership. Sadly, the crazy caucus has grown among the Republicans. Many Republicans who won primaries in deeply red districts are coming to Congress like the Marjorie Taylor Greenes and the Paul Gosars."

On Saturday Kevin McCarthy took to Twitter to announce his desire to remove Representative IIhan Omar, a progressive Minnesota Democrat, from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. McCarthy said the decision would be "based on her repeated anti-semitic and anti-American remarks."

McCarthy also tweeted on November 15 that as Speaker he vows to "fix what [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi so badly broke." He continued in the tweet saying House Republicans' work begins immediately to, "Deliver on our Commitment to America, Hold this Administration accountable, Stop the Biden agenda."

Speaking on the Republican Party as a whole, Agranoff argued, "the party has completely overpromised to their base and what we recently saw during the Senate midterms was of their own making."

A number of Republicans were disappointed in midterm election results and the failure of the anticipated "Red Wave" to emerge.

Republican Texas congressional candidate Mayra Flores tweeted after losing her race to Democrat challenger Vicente Gonzalez, "The RED WAVE did not happen." She continued, "Republicans and Independents stayed home. DO NOT COMPLAIN ABUT THE RESULTS IF YOU DID NOT DO YOUR PART."