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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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.
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
Firehath didn’t post that for you did he?
She’s a jerk.
Prove me wrong.
Tabled bigly.
Yeah we need to listen to more like you so we can lose everything.
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.
Trump NEEDS a Republican majority in the House in '25.
Johnson's actions have jeopardized that.
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
HAKEEM JOHNSON wins. Or is it Mike Jeffries?
Johnson is a jerk. Prove me wrong. Good luck.
Tabled, so it’s over.
She lost.
Vote to table: 349 to 53.
[Fox radio news]
Of course. The uniparty is fully in charge.
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.
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
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.
Umm your clowns are backstabbing Pres Trump at this very moment.
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