Marjorie Taylor Greene says replacing the speaker is “absolutely on the table,” but several of his colleagues maintain his job is safe for now
It’s June 2023, and the Republican speaker of the House is struggling to appease the hard-line members of his conference, who are angry that he reached a bipartisan deal on government spending levels. A faction of conservatives sink a procedural vote in a rebuke to party leadership.
It’s October 2023, and the Republican speaker of the House is facing an internal revolt from members of his own party furious that he forced passage of a short-term government funding measure to avert a shutdown. Eight GOP representatives, some of them with a personal grudge against the speaker, join all House Democrats in ousting Kevin McCarthy from the post; after three weeks and much intraparty agita, little-known Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson ascends to the position.
It’s January 2024, and the Republican speaker of the House is struggling to appease the hard-line members of his conference, who are angry that he has reached a bipartisan deal on government spending levels. On Wednesday, a faction of conservatives sank a procedural vote in a rebuke to party leadership.
Don’t negotiate with terrorists is rule number one. Someone tell Georgia’s worst horse.
Well, yeah. That’s exactly what the plan was all along, and why the rule to oust the speaker was changed before the 118th Congress ever began and why it has not been changed back to anything more reasonable now.
Look at the individuals in Congress who are consistently behind this ongoing chaos, what they advocate, what they shoot down, and what country stands to benefit by their positions. (Hint: it’s not the country they pledged allegiance to, nor on whose behalf they swore an oath, nor that of the people they literally get a paycheck to represent.)
The entire point is to break US government as much as it can be broken, and to further Putin’s agenda worldwide, part of which is getting Trump back into office, the US out of NATO, and enough domestic turmoil to preclude the US from mounting any successful response to either Putin’s propaganda campaign or to his attempts to realize a new Russkiy Mir by grabbing all the ex-Russian land he thinks he can hold
I want them to remove Mikey not just because he’s a dangerous wackjob liar but also to see if they can break more records trying to elect the next speaker.
On the other hand a functional government would be nice but that’s a pipe dream.
These people don’t actually want a functioning government at all.
They are working for #Putin.
“In this process, the most important thing is your word. And so if you break your word, you can never negotiate anything,” Diaz-Balart told reporters. “Like it or not, we have a top-line agreement.”
I keep thinking I’ll never be surprised at what a Republican says anymore…
But this is like a turtle telling you that if he couldn’t soar through the air like an eagle, life wouldn’t be worth living.
Bruh, you’re a turtle, your whole deal is not soaring thru anything.
Good lord, when the literal christo-fascist isn’t conservative enough…
I triple dog dare them!
Christofascist Howdy Doody has lasted longer than a head of lettuce, so he has that going for him.
How many Scaramuccis is it per head of lettuce again?
A standard Mooch is 10 days, and Truss was PM for 50, so the conversion ends up being 5 mooches for every 1 lettuce heads.
Edit: as mosiacmango pointed out below, I reversed my units. It should be 5 mooches for every trussy. Leaving original for response comment context.
You inverted your units there. 5 mooches a lettuce head, which should also be called a “Trussy” in my opinion.
You’re correct. Dummy mistake 😆
Oh please do. Waiting for them to whine that the Democrats are obligated to stop them from screwing their own party.
Looks like that mandate from God don’t hold as much water as it used to lol
Heh. ‘negotiating’
Waiting for them to oust so many republicans that the democrats get the majority back
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