Posted on 04/03/2024 9:40:46 PM PDT by RandFan
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday likened Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to a Democrat as she doubled down on threats to push forward with an effort to oust him from his post.
In a phone interview with CNN’s Manu Raju on Wednesday, Greene reportedly showed no sign of being deterred by warnings from within her conference to quell her resistance to Johnson. She sharply criticized Johnson for striking a bipartisan deal on a $1.2 trillion funding bill that averted a partial government shutdown.
Greene has attacked the bill for relying on Democratic votes for passage, lacking many GOP policy demands and not being released with sufficient time to read the full bill before voting.
Greene said she thinks Republicans around the country back her position, saying GOP voters are “furious that our so-called Christian conservative, Republican Speaker of the House did this to them,” Raju reported.
“People are fed up with Republicans that say one thing and turn around and literally join the flock and just continue the same old crap everybody’s tired of,” Greene said, likening Johnson’s tactics to that of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Greene reportedly said Johnson has “literally turned into Mitch McConnell’s twin and worse. He’s a Democrat.”
“There’s not even any daylight between him and Nancy Pelosi at this point,” she reportedly added.
CNN reported that Greene shot down the suggestion that ousting Johnson could result in a more moderate Speaker, like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).
“We cannot get anyone more moderate than Mike Johnson,” Greene said. “I would argue Mike Johnson, we can’t get any further left than Mike Johnson. I think the Democrats might be happier with him than they are with Hakeem Jeffries.”
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Jim Jordan was passed up because he was the real deal
Long for the day when a Republican leader that governs with the force of a Pelosi.
The woman is stupid.
There hasn’t been a Republican speaker since Gingrich that wasn’t a liberal. The congressional Republicans are the most odious creatures on the planet. They don’t know how to lead or be a party of opposition. They just do what the Democrats tell them and then run to their voters with excuses why they lied again.
I plan on voting for Trump in November and in some down ticket races but I’m leaving the congressional races blank because I am offered no real choices here. Communist or socialist Lite isn’t a choice.
Good grief, what an idiot she is & the immoral hick lady from Colorado. I don’t agree with Ukraine funding either, but conflating Mike Johnson with a Democrat is idiocy. Johnson has a 92% conservative rating; his would be Democrat replacement has a 0% conservative rating. Spitting out mindless bs reasoning like that does nothing to help our cause. Sorry, He is not the best example of a true rino. If we had a larger majority, stable elections & it wasn’t an election year, I’d support asking him to resign & getting somebody who would be solid & firm; but doing it now would be shooting us in the foot in the middle of a campaign. We have to be smarter than that 🫣🤣
That’s great! Because Trump can do it all himself against a democrat congress and senate. /s
That is a laugh. He’s nothing like her in any way. Pelosi was a dictator who always got her way. Johnson can’t get the GOP to pass even the simplest legislation to push thru. And Pelosi’s political philosophy was diametrically opposite Johnson’s.
He's compromised and willing to sellout the base when commanded to do by the Republican establishment.
He can prove me wrong by keeping his promise on Ukraine war funding.
AGAIN, The Hill.
Russia had to evacuate 9,000 children from Belgorod because of the Ukrainian shelling. Do we want to talk about that...
How did that Republican congress you are so proud of work out for him last time around? He took more arrows from that pile of trash than he did from the Democrats.
At least we can hold their feet to the fire. Democrats are expected to oppose him.
The GOP has failed, once again.
If Speaker Johnson gets nothing to defend and close the US border, he should fall on his own sword and refuse to bring any bill forward.
Ask an earlier squeeze and bump, Rene Ellmers who destroyed her marriage and her first ever Repub seat in Democrat tobacco NC, they took it back- thanks to their pelvic attractions. Stupid curb level salary thieves. Ellmers was a neurosureons wife and nurse. for an A22clown like kev-bo.
It all gets curiouser and curiouser. :)
Are you serious? The Republican congress can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. There is no hill they will die on, no issue including the Bill of Rights, they always-always cut and run to their good friends across the aisle. Trump and Reagan needed lions to lead and they found the party infested with quivering, cowardly rabbits. Nothing has changed.
You still believe in the two party system, it’s dead Jim.
So what’s your plan? Elect Trump and let him fight the democrats all by himself?
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