Posted on 05/05/2024 9:16:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If a motion to vacate the speaker of the House fails resoundingly, does it make a sound?
The answer is, of course, yes — with a Capitol Hill press corps that loves nothing more than pitting all-too-willing Republicans against one another. Next week, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is poised to finally pull the trigger on her quixotic quest to oust Speaker Mike Johnson — but she’s likely to be left holding a bag of small-dollar donations and press clippings, which is what her detractors think she is actually motivated by.
On one side of the push to oust Johnson is a trio of Greene, Thomas Massie and Paul Gosar. On the other side is Donald Trump’s handpicked RNC chair, Michael Whatley, the Freedom Caucus, the Republican Main Street Caucus and basically every other caucus in the House GOP. Greene’s chaos is so unpopular that every Republican who voted to oust McCarthy is opposed to getting rid of his successor — even if some are frustrated with him.
With a House majority hanging on the edge of a knife, and with near-universal opposition amongst Republicans to Greene’s move, the only way she could actually succeed would be if she teamed up with every single Democrat — which also won’t happen.
What’s most notable about MTG’s MTV is how unsuccessful it’s likely to be. Even Johnson’s critics in the Freedom Caucus are staying on the sidelines. In fact, we’re told by someone who was in the room that the caucus’s chair addressed a closed-door room of Republicans this week where he stridently opposed Greene’s move. This comes as Greene is on a crusade to oust Bob Good in this summer’s primary and as the lawmaker has tried to curry favor with Johnson’s powerful political operation, run mainly out of the Congressional Leadership Fund.
While Johnson’s detractors like Massie argue that the newish speaker is still “in over his head,” the latest intra-GOP feud may backfire so spectacularly that it could trigger a full-blown revision of the procedures by which the speaker can be removed in the next Congress.
If that happens, we can finally ignore MTV pushes — until they’re actually likely to happen.
I pointed that out waaaaay back during the McCarthy ouster.
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