Saw this, tho ... and, not getting good vibes from Whatley ... š”
The newly installed chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) is already backing down from his pledge to spend āevery dayā of 2024 to elect presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump as president again to instead spend most of Tuesday trying to save the embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson from justice, a report from Politico Playbook on Wednesday shows.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), an actual conservative and actual Republican, has been making moves against Johnson for his various betrayals in recent weeks including passing a bloated government funding plan that gave Democrats everything they wanted, casting the deciding vote for continuing warrantless surveillance of American citizens in the renewal of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and finally in passing a giant foreign aid package that among other things sends billions more in American tax dollars to the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Greene is moving forward with calling a privileged vote on her previously introduced motion to vacate against Johnson, she is expected to announce on Wednesday morning at a press conference.
Her move comes after, in exchange for his repeated betrayals of Republicans, Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced on Tuesday that Democrats would vote for the motion to table Greene's motion to vacateāeffectively saving Johnson from ouster. The Democratsā unprecedented move is a bald power grab by the minority party in the sharply-divided chamber, and effectively seals their control over what happens on the floor of the House for the rest of Johnson's tenure however short or long that may be as Speaker of the House.
What's particularly interesting about all of this however is that Whatley has somehow managed to worm his way into the discussion, and on the Democrat side of Jeffries and Johnson rather than on the side of Republicans no less.
āMichael Whatley, the newly installed RNC co-chair, had already briefed Greene's fellow House Republicans on the importance of party unity that morning, but Greene didn't show. He delivered his pointed message to her personally: Don't move against Johnson,ā Politico Playbook reported on Wednesday morning.... (more, at link) ...
Hmmmmm, what to think of this.
I have not heard Pres. Trump come out and say anything negative against Sneaker Johnson.
In fact, what I have heard is very positive.
MTG needs to back off at this point IMHO.
She has exposed Johnson and he can be dealt with after Trump is President.
We don’t need all this infighting.
Just my 2 cents, that is now worth 1/2 a cent.
I missed the MTG/Massie presser ... will have to try to find the replay.
Here you go, Janeš„°
Saw this, tho ... and, not getting good vibes from Whatley ... š”
Report: RNC Chair Michael Whatley Backs Off Pledge to Spend āAll Day Every Dayā Working to Elect Donald Trump to Instead Try to Save Mike Johnson
š”š”WTH, dear Jane??!! I hope Lara Trump reads him the riot act. After 38 years as a dem, I ONLY registered as a pubbie to be able to vote for my favorite POTUS in our closed MD primaries. At this rate, I doubt I’ll have a party come 2028. The GOP doesn’t seem to care to fight for our country and couldn’t care less about losing.
I support President Trump. I know he wanted this guy and since President Trump has never lied to me nor stabbed me in the back, I must be willing to wait this out.
As it stands now, the only Republican I have blind faith in, who will ever get my sacred vote without question , is President Trump. Gotta say, I’m prepared to ask him to scrap the GOP and form a new party. Who cares if they never succeeded in the past! You never know what is possible until you conquer the obstacle in your path.