Posted on 01/12/2024 4:02:15 PM PST by thegagline
For many of his fellow House Republicans, Chip Roy is so conservative that he demands a level of ideological purity from his colleagues that routinely threatens to stall his party’s agenda — like this week when he toyed with ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson over a government funding deal.
At the same time, the Austin congressman is being attacked by the MAGA world, cast as a RINO, or Republican in Name Only, for his outspoken criticism of former President Donald Trump and refusal to accept his false claims of a stolen election. *** Roy once again found himself at the center of a right-wing rebellion against House Republican leadership this week. A small coterie of hardliners tanked a procedural vote Wednesday, halting the floor for the day. The vote came shortly after Johnson tried selling the rest of his party on a deal to keep the government funded through the rest of the year — a deal the far right said was caving to Democrats.
Roy said on the Steve Deace Show that filling a motion to vacate was not off the table for him — an exhausting and painful proposition for many House members given the marathon of historic votes in January to elect former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and again in October to replace him.
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It was hardly the first time Roy found himself in that position. He and his fellow hardliners similarly held up the House in May to protest a deal to raise the debt ceiling. He was also a lead negotiator during last January’s speaker election, shuttling between meetings with McCarthy’s deputies. He often writes to his fellow Republicans or takes the House floor to protest the party line as not taking a hard enough stance.
It’s a stubbornness that has irked some of his peers.
“I want to be a tough negotiator as well. I'd like to see tough negotiation and get some wins,” U.S. Rep. Pat Fallon, a close Johnson ally, said. “But at the same time, my goodness, just saying no all the time and just tooting your own horn, it just doesn't get us anywhere.”
Roy is not alone in his drive for disruption or his dissatisfaction with House leadership. But his devotion to his principles has led him to politically poisonous positions that most in his party would never dream of touching. *** Nevertheless, Roy appears immune to the political poison pills he’s swallowed. Despite his vote to certify the 2020 election, Republican voters stood by him, giving him 83% of the vote in the 2022 Republican primary.
Trump sought to find primary challengers against Roy, posting on his social media: “Has any smart and energetic Republican in the Great State of Texas decided to run in the Primary against RINO Congressman Chip Roy. For the right person, he is very beatable. If interested, let me know!!!”
Trump wrote the post after the filing deadline. No one had stepped up to challenge Roy.***
Gee, they have convinced me. I’m gonna have to donate to Chip Roy.
Chip Roy supports DeSantis, who has been bankrolled by Republican establishment donors. Thus, we can conclude Chip is a fraud and useless.
You crack me up.
You offer me a bet of $70,000 or $75,000 that Trump will never be President again.
Next thing, you’re complaining about property taxes on your Texas real estate holdings, which is probably under $15,000.
Now you post this nonsense.
Your anti Trump Shtick is Hilarious.
The only focus we should have is on doing whatever it takes to win the election in 2024.
If we do that, all things are possible.
If we don’t all is lost and nothing is possible.
2024 is all about electoral politics.
The Viking kitties are eyeing thefagline.
“...false claims of a stolen election...”
This how you know with absolute certainty, that the election WAS in fact stolen. When they keep denying what the entire world saw with their own eyes, it shows just how petrified they are with Trump returning to power (and revealing the truth of how it was stolen). After 2025, they ARE going to get the ultimate punishment.
Austin rep, it figures. The rectum of Texas.
Speaker Johnson is not up to the task at hand. The country is on fire and Johnson is shi!!ing his pants negotiating with mobsters, having a broad spectrum of UNIPARTY jellyfish for backup.
Chip Roy supports DeSantis, who has been bankrolled by Republican establishment donors. Thus, we can conclude Chip is a fraud and useless.........
Exactlyoso!
I suspect that Paul Ryan is one of Mike Johnson’s advisors. The recent photo of the two of them together at the capitol was not a mere coincidence or guilt by association.
“Every election the same bs is brought forth. Elections only matter if there was a significant difference in R’s and D’s, that simply isn’t the case anymore.”
Well said.
As eff’d as Austin is, one has to ask how a Republican got elected there.
There’s a reason all the RINOs in the House voted for him. And insoubtnitnhad anything to do with being a staunch, fiscally Conservative Republican.
They knew what they were voting for
Chip Roy isn’t as conservative as he pretends to be.
Apparently you are not familiar with the Texas 21st Congressional District.
I’m not. Nor do I care. Austin is a dump. And Roy is an a$$hole. Not much more to know.
But I’m familiar with your Never Trump crap as is everyone else.
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Thorns are good.
They make you pay attention.
If you do something they think is stupid, they tell you.
If you believe in what you are doing, tell them.
Let the best ideas win.
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