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MTG Pulls the Trigger, Forces the House to Vote to Expel Speaker Johnson
Breitbart ^ | 08 May 2024 | Bradley Jaye

Posted on 05/08/2024 2:28:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has filed a privileged motion to vacate the chair, forcing the House to vote within two legislative days to eject Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

Johnson is expected to immediately move to table – and effectively kill – the motion, a vote which requires a simple majority. Yet House rules do not prohibit Greene, or any other lawmaker, from forcing additional votes, and she and her allies have not tipped their hand as to what they’ll do should the motion be killed.

Further, Johnson’s immediate future, despite assurances from Johnson-friendly media outlets, is far from certain. Some Republicans, including those who will vote against ejecting Johnson, may vote against the tabling motion out of principle. Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) has announced he would do so, although he has not said how he will vote on the motion to vacate itself.

Greene pulled the trigger Wednesday after almost two months of warnings for Johnson to end his coalition government with Democrats during which the endangered Speaker unleashed a torrent of President Joe Biden’s priorities into law.

While long anticipated, the motion’s inevitability seemed to wane this week as Greene and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) met Monday and Tuesday with Johnson for a combined three hours to discuss a path forward. The pair proposed four accountability measures to ensure the Speaker would not advance an agenda opposed by a majority of Republicans, including preventing further American funding of Ukraine’s faraway war.

Johnson had continued to state he was hearing the duo out and considering their proposals while insisting it was “not a negotiation.”

But Tuesday evening, after complaining (yet again) he had not been getting enough sleep, Johnson appeared to let the veil drop, sneering and rolling his eyes when asked if he would give Greene an answer soon.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hastertrule; mikejohnson; mtgfail; wellbye
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To: chajin
Our side looking like fools again. God help America.

I disagree with MTG on the timing of this. That said, the biggest fool has been Johnson who can't even follow the Hastert Rule.

41 posted on 05/08/2024 2:56:36 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: cuz1961

keep the chair empty with vacate votes at every opportunity

quit playing nice

scorched earth

that will keep them from further backstabbing

keep that damn chair empty till 2025


42 posted on 05/08/2024 2:56:43 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

Firehath didn’t post that for you did he?


43 posted on 05/08/2024 2:57:00 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She’s a jerk.
Prove me wrong.


44 posted on 05/08/2024 2:57:19 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tabled bigly.


45 posted on 05/08/2024 2:57:48 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: cuz1961

Yeah we need to listen to more like you so we can lose everything.


46 posted on 05/08/2024 2:58:21 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Freest Republican

Your side back stabbed Trump, for 50+ years your side aided and abetted violent lawless open borders, and they sat there with their heads up their asses while the U.S. went into 34 trillion in debt, they merrily went along with globalist 10 year long “Compassionate wars” where we won nothing but debt and death.


47 posted on 05/08/2024 2:59:14 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: rdl6989

359-43

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-forcing-vote-oust-speaker-johnson-ukraine-a-rcna148389


48 posted on 05/08/2024 2:59:44 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: chajin
The one battle that matters the most right now is getting Trump in the White House, and this does nothing to support that effort.

Trump NEEDS a Republican majority in the House in '25.

Johnson's actions have jeopardized that.

49 posted on 05/08/2024 3:00:08 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: cuz1961

no more money for anyone

no more appropriation bills

no more funding bills

no more anything

lock it up

show them we can throw a monkey wrench into their gears also


50 posted on 05/08/2024 3:00:37 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: rdl6989
The motion has been killed/tabled..

HAKEEM JOHNSON wins. Or is it Mike Jeffries?

51 posted on 05/08/2024 3:00:45 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Williams
She’s a jerk. Prove me wrong.

Johnson is a jerk. Prove me wrong. Good luck.

52 posted on 05/08/2024 3:01:00 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tabled, so it’s over.


53 posted on 05/08/2024 3:01:58 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OFRICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER ngressman is.GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She lost.

Vote to table: 349 to 53.

[Fox radio news]


54 posted on 05/08/2024 3:02:27 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: rdl6989
Tabled bigly.

Of course. The uniparty is fully in charge.

55 posted on 05/08/2024 3:02:46 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Leaning Right

What’s going to come out of this is hardball indeed. The “motion to remove” is going to go away eventually, and it won’t come back, so the party leaders in Congress are going to be more powerful and enforce discipline more harshly.


56 posted on 05/08/2024 3:03:22 PM PDT by x
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To: rdl6989

fine

no problem

tommorrow

vote to vacate again mtg

after the vote

vote to vacate again

rinse repeat

could it be worse than the backstabbing we get daily now ?

no

political barrage the house

hogtie those bitches every day till 2025


57 posted on 05/08/2024 3:04:13 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: Leaning Right

She has not learned when to attack and when to wait for a more oportune time. She’d have better luck with her strategy if and when a new GOP mojority could start a new session. Until then she needs to fight away on particular policy or money bills not fight her own party to try to get a majority of it to bend to her.


58 posted on 05/08/2024 3:04:58 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: dragnet2

Umm your clowns are backstabbing Pres Trump at this very moment.


59 posted on 05/08/2024 3:05:21 PM PDT by Freest Republican
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