Posted on 05/01/2024 3:57:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) earned the endorsement of House Democrat Leadership Tuesday. He will need to cash in on that endorsement only days later.
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) announced to a packed press conference outside the Capitol Wednesday that they would force a vote on Greene’s motion to vacate “next week.”
With the Capitol dome behind them, Greene and Massie accused Johnson of “three betrayals” on government funding, allowing surveillance of American citizens, and funding Ukraine without first securing the border.
The move has long been expected, but Wednesday’s escalation makes clear Johnson’s perilous path toward maintaining his gavel — if not in the short term, certainly beyond November.
“This motion is wrong for the Republican Conference, wrong for the institution, and wrong for the country,” read a short Johnson statement issued after the announcement and a day after Johnson accused Greene of not being a serious lawmaker.
After Greene filed her motion, Johnson proceeded to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) after casting the deciding vote to kill the warrant requirement and then folded on Ukraine funding.
“Now we have Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats coming out, embracing Mike Johnson with a warm hug and a big wet sloppy kiss,” Greene said, arguing Democrats endorsed Johnson “because Mike Johnson is giving them everything they want. Everything. Every single thing.”
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Good. Make the Democrats save him.
That will be useful as soon as we can primary him. It may be too late for this cycle but in 2 years, we can get him tossed out.
Johnson is obviously compromised in some way but that will be dealt with in the next Congress. Exactly what are Green and Massie doing other than cause a distraction from winning the presidency and showing why the GOP has been known at the Stupid Party? This s not necessary at all and can only hurt the overall goal of beating Democrats this Fall and continue to reshape the GOP in 2025.
Them: Tear up Trump’s SOTU and call him a Criminal who should be in Prison and call for his Prosecution.
Us: Sit politely and then apologize to Joe afterwards for anything that may have been construed as eye-rolling.
Pres Trump appreciates your support.
You’re right and he is so wrong-in some alternate universe.
They are not going to save him.
You are such an easy mark.
I know a Nigerian Prince you should talk to.
He will make you rich.
There are two Republican Senators who would switch parties immediately. Sounds like a change to me.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
What a power-hungry little twit johnson is.
“Impossible. Johnson already gives the left everything they want.”
Far too many House Republicans support Johnson. Greene is becoming more marginalized with each passing day
Of course they’re going to save him. It wouldn’t serve them to have their puppet taken out now would it? How would they convince the next weak kneed RINO to betray his constituents?
I don’t defend what Johnson did. He screwed us, plain and simple.
What I’m saying is that we’re fools to expect anything else, as long as the Deep State has its “six ways from Sunday at getting back at you”.
What we see is absolutely disgusting. There are no words to express how frustrated and angry I am, and all of us should be because of what is going on right in everybody’s faces.
So how do we stop it?
It isn’t going to stop until we get rid of the Deep State’s power to bribe and threaten. If we’re serious about getting the country back we have to get it out from under the hostage-takers who are in control right now.
How do you think we can do that?
After Greene announced at a press conference Wednesday that she would move on her motion, Johnson—who has repeatedly broken the Hastert Rule and caved on Ukraine aid with no border funding—responded “Don’t.”
Could have happened.
We had majorities after Trump was elected, what did republicans do with those majorities? Did they get rid of the Affordable Care Act? No, they threw the house back to the democrats so they could hobble Trump. They don’t want to work for what conservative voters want. Go scorched earth and let the chips fall where they may.
Right now we need Jordan, Comer, Lauderbach, and Higgins and the investigations they are doing, so that WHEN (and that is absolutely imperative) we get Trump in the White House, an honest AG (interim if need be, if the Senate won’t confirm anybody good), and House and Senate control.... those criminal referrals can be handed over to an honest AG who can hit the ground running, to bring the thugs in our government under the rule of law.
That is critical, if we’re going to save this nation.
What MTG is doing just reinforces the idea that there’s no difference between R’s and D’s in control of the govt. And to a large extent that is true. But in the MOST IMPORTANT EXTENT it is not, because these committees are gathering real evidence that can only bear fruit if/when we get a real AG and DOJ.
These committee heads are taking the Ring of Power to Mordor so it can be thrown in the Crack of Doom. We HAVE to give them the time and space to do that. That’s all Sauron cares about. The policies being made are all what we expect under Sauron and they’re not going to change until the Ring of Power is gone. We have to be smart.
They’ve uncovered evidence that can be given to an honest AG once we get one, when Trump is elected.
That will be the start of bringing down the Deep State that has all our critters by the short hairs.
Obamacare is here because Chief Justice John Roberts changed his vote on a court case and determined that it was a tax. We know that Roberts was spied on by John Brennan and James Clapper through the use of the supercomputer “The Hammer”, looking for bribery material. Connect the dots.
The Deep State controls everybody in DC. Tucker Carlson had an interview with Joe Rogan and said that Congress members have told him outright that they are afraid of the CIA. Chuck Schumer very publicly warned Trump from taking on the “intelligence community” because “they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you”. None of this is hidden. It’s open knowledge. Our government is hostage to the Deep State.
When the R’s had majorities, they also had a Deep State that was hitting Trump with every illegal, treasonous ploy in the book. It is obvious to everybody.
The only question for us now is what are we going to do about it? Get rid of Jordan, Lauderbach, Comer, and Higgins, who are digging up evidence that could actually be used to address this very, very root problem?
That would be suicide. Is that what you support, right when we have the chance to actually destroy the Ring of Power?
Why would they do that?
Yes, they are saying they would, and you believe them?
This is a "Don't throw me in that briar patch" feint.
I’m not very smart at all but I can see what’s in front of me.
I would be destroyed if I ran for Congress because I have people I love and don’t want killed. The Deep State has already killed my husband to try to stop my research against them.
So I have a bit of understanding of what honest people in DC run up against. Threaten to kill somebody’s loved ones - when everybody knows you have the power to do so and have no qualms about doing it - and you can control even good people.
That’s why we have to be smart about how we approach this. We can spit out all the good people who betray us.... or we can try to understand why this keeps happening to us and actually attack the root problem.
I know who killed my husband. And nothing MTG or anybody else says is going to distract me from setting my gaze and my laser in direct line-of-fire to them. It’s the only way to get our country back.
We are being played. Johnson is trying his best to outrage the base and force his overturn. MTG and massie are also bad actors, doing the bad cop routine and taking the blame. The end result is we hand things over to the dems giving them carte blanch to block Trump’s nomination.
What’s clear is Trump will be stopped, damn the torpedoes!
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