Posted on 05/01/2024 2:56:15 PM PDT by RandFan
Rep. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-Ga.) officially put a time frame on her effort to oust Speaker MIKE JOHNSON, announcing at a press conference this morning that she’ll bring up the motion to vacate as a privileged matter next week.
Greene’s move will be just the latest chaos to roil the House GOP Conference, but unlike the successful push to depose KEVIN McCARTHY last year, this one “seems doomed,” Olivia Beavers and Jordain Carney report. Having readied for this moment, House Republican leaders are planning to move to quash her attempt, with help from Democrats repulsed by Greene’s coup attempt. (We’ll see what procedural tricks they have up their sleeves to dispense with it as quickly as possible.)
The big question is whether Greene and her allies can build up some support — and to what level — over the next week. Once they make the motion, a vote on Johnson’s speakership would take place within two days. Appearing with Greene today, Rep. THOMAS MASSIE (R-Ky.) called the speaker “a lost ball in tall weeds” and said he should resign before the motion to vacate even comes up. Greene maintained that her motion was driven not by personal vendettas but by Johnson’s policy moves, including his decision to push through a big foreign aid package dependent on Democratic votes.
Rep. WARREN DAVIDSON (R-Ohio) told CNN’s Manu Raju that he wouldn’t support an expected procedural vote to kill the motion to vacate, but he said he wasn’t sure about the underlying question — whether to save Johnson or not.
Johnson doesn’t seem too concerned. “This motion is wrong for the Republican Conference, wrong for the institution, and wrong for the country,” he said in a brief statement this morning. And in an interview with NewsNation’s Blake Burman that’s slated to air on “The Hill” tonight, Johnson gave Greene a NANCY PELOSI-esque kiss-off with a Southern twist: “Bless her heart.” Burman: “Is she a serious lawmaker?” Johnson: “I don’t think she is proving to be. No. I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about her.”
Really, really, really bad idea.
Johnson. Just another uniparty good old boy.
She should have made it a privileged motion from day one. Playing politics with it, delaying it, as now meant that she will lose.
Not sure what the right number should be, but the number of members required to bring up a privileged motion should be greater than one.
He’s single-handedly got the Ukraine bill approved.
Johnson needs to go. We can’t win with traitors like Johnson leading us.
Good.
I’m tired of “unifying the party” with assistant Democrats.
Guy’s a fag.
It’s tough to get support for a policy (Ukrainian aid) that a majority of your parties voters oppose.
I think we are lucky that the current aid package got approved. I don’t think it will get approved next year if the Republicans retain control of the House.
It's not the right time.
We do not want a Speaker Jeffries heading into the 2024 Presidential election.
Stupid.
Crooks...each and every one of them. Spend your campaign contributions on food...you’ll be better off.
She IS a blond. :-)
Making a “name” for herself, but with the tiny GOP 1/2 vote majority will only serve the Dims.
Dems rescue their boy, Magic Johnson.
Going to be hard to deny his mission after that.
Don’t make me laugh. This kind of foreign/corporate “welfare for white people” bill has been ingrained in the GOP political agenda since I’ve been old enough to vote.
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