Posted on 12/31/2024 1:35:38 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) said Tuesday on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.” that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) did not have the votes to keep the position.
Roy said, “I remain undecided, as do a number of my colleagues because we saw so many of the failures last year that we are concerned about that might limit or inhibit our ability to advance the president’s agenda.”
He continued, “We violated the 72-hour rule twice, which means we didn’t have time to read a bill. We had to have Elon and Vivek and the president and JD come in to kill a 1,500-page monstrosity, cut it down to 100 pages. It still spent $110 billion unpaid for.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Swamp shrimp needs to go.
Byron Donalds, a non-congress person or ANYONE is better than someone who betrays - over and over.
Those who say he’ll be under Trump’s thumb, well so will *anyone* replacing him.. even moreso.
Great. These dumb bastards are going to do it again.
Unless they’ve got someone lined up who can get the votes, I don’t see the point in standing for principle. Sometimes standing for principle can ultimately do more harm than good.
Some GOP members are desperate for attention, one suspects.
Listen to DJT on this one, for pity sakes!
A “majority” of ONE! And f-ing retards like Massey are going to do it.
Who does have the votes? Hakeem? Why can’t they decide these votes ahead of time. Do they never meet outside?
I agree with those simple changes, but apparently we peons don’t understand how 35-D chess works or something, therefore the system must continue to be complex and divisive.
Which dumb bastards are going to do what, again? :)
We constantly hear this: "We can't afford to oppose RINOs, we can't afford to vote against this or that bloated spending package, its not the time for division among the GOP, we need every vote to get this judge into their seat, etc..."
Its never a good time for small government and conservative principles!
Put Sarah Palin in! She’s got a spine.
Not as long as we keep letting people like most of congress and attention whores like Chip Roy get elected. W
Where are the candidates like Scott Presler or Charlie Kirk?
How many winning sports teams don’t have a farm team system or recruitment and just hope the best players manage to come play for them?
The Divas in the Diva Party are starting sing their arias and prove what the Democrats always say ... the Republicans cannot govern.
“Do they never meet outside?”
No. These are Republicans who like to grandstand.
Put Mike Johnson aside for a moment. There is a change in the Force in DC. There will be a Republican Senate when Congress reconvenes and a Republican president on January 20.
Mike Johnson has been trying to manage a wafer thin majority againt a democrat monolith in charge of everything else, with grandstanding microfactions doing their ritual purity kabuki dances for the tv cameras.
Now the Republicans control everything and the obstacle will be democrat filibusters ... and grandstanding mictofactions doing their ritual purity kabuki dances for the tv cameras.
Some people need to shut up and support the team. Ritual purity? Trump is to the left of the Republican caucuses in both the House and Senate on most issues. Deal with that.
Republicans have a very short window of opportunity to get something done if they stand together. They have zero chance to accomplish anything if they bicker amongst themselves.
The ritual purity microfactions don’t care. They are more interested in the tv cameras.
“Don’t believe Johnson has the votes”
Congratulations Speaker Jeffries!
I share your frustration 100%. And if we dont have a Speaker, we cant certify the election at the joint session on Monday. What do we do about that?
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