Posted on 05/01/2024 9:54:27 AM PDT by RandFan
MICHAEL WHATLEY, the newly installed RNC co-chair, had already briefed Greene’s fellow House Republicans on the importance of party unity that morning, but Greene didn’t show. He delivered his pointed message to her personally: Don’t move against Johnson.
“He said, one, this is not helpful, and two, we want to expand and grow the majority in the House,” said a person familiar with Whatley’s message to Greene. “He was clear that any disruption to the conference on these efforts — including filing this [motion to vacate], does not help the case for party unity.”
In another era, a directive from the top Republican party official certainly would not go unheeded by a House back-bencher. Even in this era, you would think Whatley’s status as DONALD TRUMP’s handpicked RNC steward would mean something to a MAGA acolyte.
But Greene disagreed with Whatley, arguing that the party had time to rebound from a leadership switch before the election. And she admitted she’d spoken to Trump himself earlier in the day — leaving the impression that the former president had told her much the same as Whatley had.
The truth was, Greene had backed herself into a corner, and this morning, she’s facing a potential lose-lose situation: back down and look squishy or stand firm and risk a break with Trump.
At 9 a.m. she’s holding a news conference with fellow Johnson critic THOMAS MASSIE (R-Ky.), and her fellow Republicans are bracing for her to announce a vote on Johnson’s gavel as soon as this afternoon. If so, expect a quick vote to table.
Already her threats have taken a toll on her standing within the House Republican conference, where more and more lawmakers are growing tired of her self-aggrandizing antics, as our colleagues Jordain Carney and Olivia Beavers write.
They note, for instance, that Greene’s latest push comes as the GOP tries to take advantage of the campus unrest to make a messaging push on antisemitism. But, they write, instead of “going on the offense by attacking Democrats for insufficiently condemning pro-Palestinian protests on campuses, Republicans are now bracing for Greene to drag them into another internal fight that most of them would rather delay until after Election Day.”
The bigger issue is that Greene is defying not just her House colleagues, but also Trump and his hand-picked deputy, who made yesterday’s unusual face-to-face appeal.
Whatley told Playbook in a statement that “nothing is more important than party unity and ensuring that we are focused on beating JOE BIDEN and Democrats in November.”
Others in the Trump-aligned orbit are annoyed, to put it mildly, at Greene’s lack of political discipline. Some noted that she’d kept quiet in recent days until House Minority Leader HAKEEM JEFFRIES and other top Democrats made their backing of Johnson public yesterday morning — suggesting Greene got rope-a-doped into sparking another internecine fight.
“Fresh bait always finds a fish,” one senior GOP official told Playbook. “Jeffries throwing that out there, it’s chum in the water. Everyone knows what he did.”
Whatley needs to step down if he can’t stick to the mission.
Israel is the largest recipient of US foreign aid.
Look, you are already a proven lying POS. All’s one has to do is go back to your post #66 on this thread to see that. I don’t need to prove it over and over and over again, once is enough.
If DeSantis does get the veep pick, then we’ll see such an about face here, it’ll make heads spin.
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I’m a huge Trump supporter who wants a Trump/DeSantis ticket for November.
Too bad it won’t happen, but a Trump-DeSantis alliance would give us the strong leadership this country needs to get “back on track.”
Yes I’m aware of that and support cutting off aid to them too. But with AIPAC having bought out almost all our politicians the chances of that happening anytime soon is unlikely.
Post 66 is YOUR post Dip Wad. I had told you what to do in post 61, but you refused to do so. You stomped your little foot like a little girl and failed to back up your lies.
I don’t need to prove it over and over and over again, once is enough.
You proved it? In YOUR post 66 you said...."I'm not going to waste my time."
So please; stop the lying and shut up.
Grow up and knock it off.
OK Karen.
You’ll figure out a way to twist anything and attack DJT.
No. Only what he’s reasonably done.
Even some of the Democrats are reluctant to attack America's mayor - but not you!
You ignore the stench of lawfare rulings out of the Southern Judicial District of New Jerk, and forge right ahead.
No, I’m assuming that with a presidency and the senate controlled by Dems, Republicans need to do whatever they can to hold the house to prevent the Dems from passing a bunch of legislation before the November election that will be impossible for Trump to undo even if he wins in November.
Right now is not the time to play offense, it’s the time to hunker down and play defense, and obstruct as much as possible to keep Biden and the Dems from doing damage until the election.
It’s just prudent politics. Trump knows this.
Rudy was so effective people were being banned when he was a presidential candidate. But can you name one law suit Rudy won for Trump?
That’s a winning message…lololol!
What plan?
Then we’re screwed.
Good mercy, stop stirring people up!
TRUMP…..and his choices…..Now…….Forever……. and Always!
I’ve always been told to trust Trump. He has a plan. He’ll reveal relevant pieces as appropriate.
The House controls the purse strings, but Johnson gave that up. There is an issue worth fighting about for the rest of the year: putting a stop to the profligate spending in DC. By the end of the year, the debt will be at least $37 trillion. Show some spine Pubbies, for my grandchildren at least.
I believe we covered that under "Democrat stooge-judges gonna stooge", in the other thread.
I can re-post it to remind you of the kangaroo courts of your Democrat Party team, or you can just use the link.
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