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.”
Evvy pitcha tell a story don’t it.
If Johnson had held up, a discharge petition for the Senate bill would have gone through, and then we’d have the Senate bill as law.
This way, at least HR2 is still out there, and the border issue is seen as being blocked by the Dems, just in time for the election.
We need to put are dipshit squad against the democrats dipshit squad.
Here are the first two competitions:
AOC vs Boebert in mud wrestling.
MTG vs Tlaib in a MMA cage match.
Go for it. Then Jeffries takes over and paid for abortion up to go much time for an abortion they can approve, 15 weeks to the day of birth, the democrats can get away with is a done deal. National Weapons bans, done. All the socialist programs that they can and cannot pay for, done. Amnesty for all the illegals and changes to immigration, likely the death of of our immigration laws, will be codified. The end of women’s exclusive rights will be gone. They will slam every thing they can into the next few months only the constitution will not change as they don’t have enough states to call for a convention.
> It’s not the right time. <
I respect your position. And you well might be right. But it’s always brass knuckles time for the Democrats. And it’s always wait until later time for the GOP.
The writer is calling this chaos, but it isn’t. This is simply an organized process that will play out one way or another.
Speaker Jeffries would be an absolute disaster.
The Democrats are lying when they say that won’t vote to remove Johnson. They are trying to lure us into committing political suicide.
Republican populace support for Ukraine is about 50/50.
Agree! One is much, much too lonely a number.
What makes you say that?
You just now.
“...from Democrats repulsed by Greene’s coup attempt...”
Hopefully they have fainting couches near at hand.
It’s been said: Low T.
What makes you say that?
You just now.
Please explain how I made you accuse him of that.
Really? By anyone who actually knows?
When you toss a stone, the dog that yelps is the one that was hit.
Trump praises MTG and claims she is ‘very respected in Congress’ Donald Trump praised Marjorie Taylor Greene during a rally in South Carolina on Friday (23 February), describing the controversial US Representative as a “good person”. “She has been with me for so long, in good times and bad,” the former president said. “If times are good, she will call me up twice. She is a fantastic person, a very smart person and very respected in Congress.” Mr Trump went on to claim that “a lot of people don’t know how respected” MTG is.
Who yelped? And by whom and when was a stone tossed, relative to any imagined yelping?
Ahhhh...My job here is done.
You are done, all right. And no one barked. Your excuse of a thrown stone occurred before I showed up. Sometimes the ones who cast stones are the ones with the glass houses.
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