Posted on 12/28/2024 12:17:42 PM PST by Signalman
U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has confirmed that he will not be supporting House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for another term when the new Congress is sworn in next month.
“I will vote for someone other than Mike Johnson. I’m not persuaded by the ‘hurry up and elect him so we can certify the election on J6’ argument,” Massie wrote in an X post on Saturday. “A weak legislative branch, beholden to the swamp, will not be able to achieve the mandate voters gave Trump and Congress in November.”
Johnson can not afford to lose support from virtually any House Republicans due to the party’s slim majority in the House. Democrats are almost certain to dedicate their 215 to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), while Republicans have already been through a lengthy House speaker race. When a handful of lawmakers voted to oust then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) last year, the party cycled through multiple candidates, including longtime House Freedom Caucus member Jim Jordan (R-OH) before eventually landing on Johnson as a compromise candidate.
Several moderate Republican have floated the possibility of making a deal with House Democrats in the past, which could lead to a scenario where Jeffries becomes speaker despite the Republican majority.
Despite the slim majority, Massie is not the only House Republican who has expressed dissatisfaction with Massie’s leadership. Former House Freedom Caucus chair Scott Perry (R-PA) declined to commit his support to Johnson while speaking with Fox News on Friday.
“Right now, I think that Mike has done an admirable job under tough conditions, but I’m going to keep my options open. I want to have a conversation with Mike,” he said.
While Johnson was unanimously renominated by House Republicans to be Speaker again in November, several lawmakers have expressed frustration with his handling of an end-of-year short-term funding deal last week. “What members are seeking is what they think is good for the country, and they don’t see, in some cases, where Speaker Johnson has gotten us to the place where we can claim that we’ve achieved that,” Perry said.
Johnson has also faced criticism from wide swaths of the Republican electorate. According to a straw poll conducted at Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest conference, just 22 percent of respondents approve of Johnson’s job performance while 59 percent would prefer a new speaker.
Massie should stand for speaker and see how many votes he gets.
“I’m not persuaded by the ‘hurry up and elect him so we can certify the election on J6’ argument,” Massie wrote in an X post on Saturday.
That’s a hot take. Hurrying something as important as picking the Speaker seems like a bad idea.
Yes, make them fulfil their constitutional obligation or dox them and let the pissed off Republicans deal with them in private conversations.
“A weak Mike Johnson, beholden to the swamp, will not be able to achieve the mandate voters gave Trump and Congress in November.”
And no speaker will mean no certified election.
Leave it to the GOP to f**k up a golden opportunity.
So Mike Johnson and the democrats are threatening our elections and democracy by preventing Trump from taking over? This will not end well.
People need to learn not to start wars they can’t finish.
Delay the certification of Trump’s election? Why the heck not?
Push some RINO’s into making a deal with the dems and making Jeffries Speaker? Why the heck not?
Lead an insurgency that will put up an alternative candidate who gets 12 votes in the caucus? Why the heck not?
Maybe he’d settle for two new bridges and a federal office building.
Agreed.
The cancer from within they won’t give Trump the opportunity to even have a peaceful first two years to get everything accomplished. The GOP will just shred themselves to death, allowing the Democrats to win.
Exactly, we have a cancer and rot from within the party
But on other threads, some Freepers say that Congress does not actually certify electoral votes, all they do is count them.
So who knows if that’s true.
A strong Leader is critical for getting Trump’s agenda through.
The U.S. Treasury will hit the debt ceiling somewhere between Jan 14-23. Another protracted House vote saga for speaker risks bumping into that deadline.
The GOPe better learn, and double damned quick, that We the People are very near open revolt against business-as-usual Washington DC.
You are NOT LEADERS, you are OUR representatives! Learn the difference and do what we sent you to do, or GTFO!!!
U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has confirmed that House Republicans cannot govern and should be turned out en mass.
OK.
Jeffries 215, Johnson 214, Massie 6.
Now. How confident are you that, with the stock market crashing, the MSM baying outside, rising demands for Biden to resign so Harris can take over - how confident are you that Jeffries can't find the 3 Republicans he needs - THREE - to become Speaker?
Johnson proved he’s unfit for the job.
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