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.
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