If The GOP Loses Its House Majority, It’s Speaker Johnson’s Fault

The Federalist ^ | 04/18/2024 | John Daniel Davidson

[Mariner]

“If the House GOP loses its majority next year, it might well be because Speaker Mike Johnson sold out Republican voters by failing to fund border security while working with Democrats to funnel billions more taxpayer dollars to Ukraine — after he repeatedly said he wouldn’t do precisely that. “

The base is going to completely abandon congressional Republicans if those bills hit the floor. They’ll certainly lose the House, and take hits in the Senate.

And if Trump continues to side with them, he’ll lose too.

[PIF]

If The GOP Loses Its House Majority, It’s Speaker Johnson’s the Moscow Mules' Fault

[JoSixChip]

I’m in complete agreement with you.

[Golden Eagle]

It will be Matt Gaetz’s fault for creating the problem to begin with. And Getz used to be my favorite Congressman, as my posting history clearly shows.

If Gaetz wants to avoid the blame, he could try another motion to vacate and hope to get someone better. The fact he won’t indicates he knows how bad he messed up last time.

[brjam]

Why can’t they just throw him out as speaker then throw him out of the Republican party? That way he can’t remain speaker for the house as he would no longer be a member of the majority. He is obviously not a Republican....so he shouldn’t be able to call himself one.

[Tell It Right]

And Senator Lindsey Graham’s fault for proposing a federal abortion ban and bringing out the “Death to America’s babies” vote.

[Jim Noble]

D+35 is baked in.

Any more idiotic abortion activism, could go higher.

[Reno89519]

It is not just Johnson, it will be on Trump and the Republicans in the House. Trump endorsed him and Ukraine funding just days ago. No one is making a privileged motion to vacate the chair, so they are just venting, all talk, nothing more. Even here on FR, look at the comments over the past several days since Trump appeared with Johnson, many are twisting themselves into pretzels trying to keep up with Trump—Johnson okay, aid to Ukraine without aid to our border is okay, abortion is now okay, and so one. Enjoy the ride.

[volare737]

The mid-terms were a disaster for the Republicans—as most estimates showed them winning about 40 seats. They barely scraped by, by only a few seats. The democrats had one of the best mid-term performances ever—when it should have been a massacre for them. Clinton and Obama lost big time in their mid-terms

If Johnson and the Republicans keep p*ssing off their base, this upcoming election will be a disaster also. I am sure Biden and the democrats are ecstatic by Johnson’s total capitulation on border security.

Biden said he would not sign separate bills. Johnson caved and Biden won big time—at the continued expense of drugs, crime and an unconscionable massive invasion on our southern border,

Thank you, Mr. Speaker!

[JoSixChip]

You’re an idiot, mccarthy would be even worse. I am tired of reading your stupidity online. We need a block function.

[Kazan]

What a load of crap. McCarthy was every bit as bad as Johnson.

[del griffith]

The Republican Party has largely been transformed over the past 8 or so years to what we want it to be, yet we are still more than unhappy.

[JoSixChip]

desanctomonious would be openly supporting this BS. Thank God we dodged that bullet.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Some people enjoy getting their butts kicked.

[Reno89519]

Who are you talking about? Or just taking an opportunity to throw out insults.

[Golden Eagle]

No, McCarthy was not THIS bad. He was on course to break up the Omnibus packaged spending and have independent spending bills, which Johnson immediately abandoned. That should have been the #1 priority for this congress, along with stopping the invasion at the border. McCarthy was actually talking about shutting the government down over the border issue, which Johnson has never even mentioned as an option. You simply don’t remember what was going on at the time. Go back and look a few articles up.

McCarthy Says Biden Must Tighten Border to Avert US Government Shutdown

https://www.voanews.com/a/mccarthy-says-biden-must-tighten-border-to-avert-us-government-shutdown/7285124.html

McCarthy vows end to massive ‘Omnibus’ spending bills

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccarthy-vows-end-massive-omnibus-spending-bills-not-going-happen

[Alas Babylon!]

Screwed if you do, screwed if you don't.

Can someone tell me how a democrat House would help a single conservative?

[faithhopecharity]

I know next to nothing about Speaker Johnson but...
it must be difficult to get anything good passed when the DemoNaziCommie contingent votes as a solid hardcore leftist block while the GOP representatives scatter all over the place from conservatives to libertarians to country-clubbers to UniParty enablers of the commieNazi agenda.

relying on Republican politicians to support anything useful or good is like trying to herd cats

Having said all that “in defense” of Johnson, his failure to at least keep GOP representatives IN the House has Tragedy written all over it. Why? Because the House is not only the Constitutional source for impeachments. The House also will SELECT THE NEXT PRESIDENT in case the DNC Election Theft Machine doesn’t quite get the job done in the several states. (See Constitution Amendment 12). Then Senator Schumer’s Senate gets to choose the Veep.

Not to be TOO conspiratorially-minded about this but the timing of the GOP decline in the House speaks loudly that it is likely being orchestrated by the Puppetmeisters controlling the DNC. It is at least possible and it would fit perfectly into their Agenda.

[RobertoinAL]

The Republicans need to elect a Speaker with some ballz - Marjorie Taylor Green!!!