The media and punditry are saying it’s the pressure of Jordan, but really, it’s the pressure of the voters that’s scaring the crap out of the Republicans in the House.
The block of opposition to Jim Jordan’s nomination in the House is crumbling, as their phones, emails and fax machines are being lit up by voters demanding support and threatening a removal primary against any House member who tries to stand in the way of the people.
Jordan has vowed to take his nomination to a House floor vote and force the Republican Party to take a stand. This is a solid strategy that puts any no vote against the will of the electorate.
WASHINGTON – Twenty-four hours before the full House will vote on whether to hand Jordan the gavel, the Judiciary chair and his allies have managed to chip away at a significant bloc of opposition that many in the House GOP saw as insurmountable just days ago.
That includes two lawmakers who had publicly vowed not to support Jordan: Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.), who had publicly railed against Jordan’s behavior towards Majority Whip Steve Scalise, and House Armed Services Chair Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), who had also backed Scalise’s bid and has been critical of the House Freedom Caucus’s tactics in recent years.
Another holdout, Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), posted on X Monday that he would be “offering my support on the House floor” to Jordan. Buchanan, a senior member of the Florida GOP delegation, is another significant get, given three Republicans from the Sunshine state are still holding out.
Some House Republicans also raised eyebrows at the nod from Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), a senior appropriator who has been similarly skeptical of the ultraconservatives’ demands this Congress.
“I feel real good about the momentum we have and I think we’re real close,” Jordan told reporters Monday, vowing to take the contest to the floor at noon regardless of whether he’s formally landed 217 votes. (read more)
Y’all know how I feel about Jordan in general terms, but hopefully the MAGA base and President Trump’s influence can overwhelm the right wing of the Uniparty vulture.
too many Rino Republicans I can’t stand Them,
A lot of these guys really are democrats..at least 20% and probably more of our elected Republican politicians are what we used to call “sleepers”. Really hard to believe anything else after the last 10 years or so of dealing with these guys. They ARE democrats.
Yes, they are Democrats who ran for office in White Suburban Republican Districts so they masqueraded as Republicans…until now!
Dan Bongino said it best: “most Republicans (politicians) are actually Democrats but no Democrats are actually Republicans.”
It’s about time we the people started getting some influence in who the GOP leaders are. I still feel like they’re gonna find a way to screw us though.
The 1 person motion to vacate cuts both ways. Peeling off 6-8 rinos to vote with demoncraps wouldn’t be difficult at all.
I keep in contact with my Rep here in 6th district TN. Much of my concerns are blown off and worse yet, addressed by some snivling young kid in his office. After his vote supporting the Uniparty in lock step and voting “Yea” on the 45 Day CR, I wrote an email chronicling his absences from Congress during his term, his Uniparty votes – each of them – which were for the most part directly in the face of his constituents. I then promised him I would make a concerted effort to reach out to Conservatives in/around TN to get suggestions for a primary challenger. I then am prepared to help that challenger defeat this worthless POS who has lied to TN in his two campaign. This Rep John Rose claims “undecided” because he want’s to hear the candidates speak …”keeping his options open as he considers who best reflects the values of Tennessee’s Sixth District and is prepared to lead the House of Representatives.”
It’s not a good thing to place qualifications on any public office, but Reps like mine sure makes a good argument for it. He’s wealthy and could give a flying F*** about us Tenneseans.
I forgot to mention he had voted for Chairman Jim Jordan to be the Republican nominee for Speaker of the House in a Republican Conference meeting, he will be supporting Steve Scalise on the House Floor.
Kick him out if mmmmmmm of Tennessee with Precinct Strategy. Never forget the RNC steals elections, too.
We may have 4 MAGA conservative Republicans running for precinct chairs in my district in March here in Texas.
I am very concerned about our state right now. Too many far-left nut jobs are coming here from California, New York and other BLUE states. It’s disgusting what has happened to Nashville, Chattanooga, and even Knoxville. I live in Hawkins County, and I am seeing the infiltration even here in our very small farming community.
What is happening in our schools. Our law enforcement. These Democrats want to turn our state BLUE. And we have some very weak RINOS representing us. I like a few of them, but too many of them don’t have the nards to stand up for conservative values. It is very sad.
Oh….they *will* screw us…it’s not a matter of if, but when.
Start with plastic Barbie wannabe -Rona.
Victoria Spartz doesn’t want a Floor vote yet…
https://spartz.house.gov/media/press-releases/spartz-issues-statement-jim-jordan-vote
She needs to step down. I believe Spartz was an erroneous plant for the Ukraine money laundering scam.
Apparently she is also receiving a LOT of subsidies for her farm…
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2023/03/25-current-members-house-collected-14-million-federal-farm-subsidies
I also saw recently that Spartz’s net worth is between $2M and $5M.
Time to get rid of dual citizenship.
Hoosiers are suckers for a good story, most are only fooled about half and we’ve managed to stay rino red but take nothing for granted – we gave you Pence, watch out for Holcomb he term limits out as gov this year and he is super rino.
Spartz is toast.
Back in the day, the U.S. did not recognize dual citizenship. If you were an immigrant, your citizenship oath renounced allegiance to any foreign power. If you were born here but another country recognized you as its citizen, that made no legal difference to the U.S.
You’d think that $100 Billion and 500,000 dead Ukrainians would be enough for anybody. No?
We spent 5% of our defense budget fulfullimg our 1994 assurances to Ukraine of its territorial integrity. No US soldier has been sent there, yet the Russians have lost half of their main battle tanks and 300,000 men. I’d say it was money well spent.
Why? Just wondering.
I would say you believe propaganda.
Oh, PUH–LEEZE!
I don’t know anything about Victoria Spartz, but I do know that a net worth of over $1 million won’t get you halfway through your retirement these days. A million bucks used to mean something during the 20th Century. Another bad affect of inflation.
Spartz needs to move back to FUKraine
as she’s all about Money to FUKraine
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They will put the status quo first. That means protecting the illusion of choice. They can always undermine Jordan after the vote.
For Jordan, if he gets elected, the first real test comes when the CR expires in a few weeks. He will be on the hook to deliver on McCarthy’s broken promise of individual regular spending bills and on the hook to kill Ukraine funding. He will also have to actually do something of significance about the “weaponization of government” charade. A good start will be defunding the DOJ persecutions of Trump and major DOJ cuts as a punishment. Separate spending bills will let him shut down the DOJ indefinitely without impacting (and likely enhancing) our national security. The patriots in the House also need to start firing a shot across the bow of the courts for going along as patsies of the DOJ.
It’s not a long list. But it’s an important one.
Jordon’s been a loud voice for years – time to walk the talk
Yes! Very easy to demand this or that from the peanut gallery. It’s a whole different story to deliver.
Ken Buck…
There is also a rumor about Ken Buck…
I also think that Hakeem, the Jew hater, scared some of the Rino’s this weekend.
He should scare everyone in the GOP
Yes he should yet some GOPe members were actively seeking a coalition with him.
I want their names. They don’t need to be in the R party.Primary their butts into oblivion.
Note: It’s Nancy who controls Hakeem. All House members know from whence their power flows.
He’s certainly better than Mccarthy or Scalise in one crucial way, he excites the base. He will fail us, but hopefully he will help excite the base to un stealable levels in 24 and we can get a real conservative block in congress.
With the exception of Trump, I think Jordan is the best we can hope for.
That’s what Rep. Tim Burchett says, and I trust his judgment. He says the choice is pretty much Jeffries or Jordan.
That’s pathetic we don’t elect potential leaders to CONgress. No wonder this country is such a mess even when elections aren’t stolen.
RINOs opposing Jordan should remember that “elections have consequences”, even election for Speaker. Any incumbent Republican who votes against Jordan can look forward to a challenger’s video of that abomination in 2024 Primary.
i’m shocked that dusty johnson (rino)SD openly supported Jim and even more shocking is i heard that Jim asked him to do it.
Shock i tell ya.
I received interesting information this evening from my House patriot friend.
The holdouts are being told they will be punished with positional and committee assignment downgrades if they vote against Jordan and he wins. The miscreants believe the threats, and they are telling one another they must stick together in a sufficient number to wreck Jordan to save themselves and to fight another day for a more moderate, establishment approved, candidate who will protect them.
However, several former holdouts who have “seen the light” and have turned in favor of Jordan are assuring the remaining rebels that wishing, hoping, and praying for an establishment managed member getting the gavel and saving them is now virtually certain not to happen. Moreover, the worst case scenario for non support is being aggressively primaried and lightly funded for reelection. Of course, the encouragement to flip to Jordan is not remotely motivated by patriotism. Rather, it is nothing more than an ugly manifestation of self-interest.
We’ll soon see who among the caucus are political fools.
don’t ask how – ask how many
Jordan is a Snake.
Hopefully he gets enough heat from us that the Vultures influence is backed off.
So disappointed in Jordan. He is another Cruz, Rubio, Rand, Gowdy, Mike Lee – Posers/Roosters, who do enough yapping to keep their credibility with uninformed voters, but never enough to make a change or defy their owners.
EVERY Low T Cuck SENATOR failed to vote for recess, buckling to that FILTHY half dead ahole from Kentucky, McConnell, delaying key appointments by President Trump.. unforgiveable
who told you to say that?
Why did JJ not want the nomination last time?
What changed?
My understanding is that last time, Jim Jordan had his heart set on chairing Judiciary, and being able to shine a light on all the govt corruption and weaponization. He didn’t want SOH because it involved a lot of running around the country doing fundraising, and he wanted to be in DC and have hearings that would expose the dirt and get it on record. (He admitted that they would probably not be able to indict anyone with Biden and Garland at the helm — but that hopefully with a Republican president in 2024 (i.e., PTrump) they could act on it.)
I think what changed is that with McCarthy out, there was a vacuum, and Scalise was just going to be more of the same. Jordan could run without being seen as betraying McCarthy, or risking his committee assignments. The House wasn’t ready last time for a real conservative, or Jordan or Byron Donalds would have won the Speaker vote when they were nominated in multiple votings. But we may be closer now.
My theory is that Gaetz has helped to shift the House and public opinion, and consolidate the base to where a Speaker Jordan is possible. I think Jordan ran this time because he had enough people encouraging him (including President Trump) and maybe because he was willing to do it if it meant steering the House in a better direction, as he tried to do via forming the Freedom Caucus. Also, if/when President Trump is elected in 2o24, it will give him a Speaker he can work with.
Maybe Jordan is ascending for such a time as this. Just thinking out loud here…
Wrote directly on official homepage . I never call them when I check the box No, not interested that you write me your reply. Just letting you know what I’m thinking and that you ought to know.
Will people (*this time) in the current world, economic and political situations have to get drastic holding their public servants feet to the fire? After all these years?
“You are one of 10 blockheads of opposition to Jim Jordan’s nomination in the House”.
Are you aware the DC Wall of Opposition is crumbling for those who do not bear fruit or only bear rotten fruits?
The tides have changed
I messaged my R-C Congressman Brandon Williams, 22nd district in central NY on his official page when McCarthy was removed that I approved, for his lies and broken promises. I too checked the No Reply box. I keep it short and to the point. The next day I messaged him: Scalise, no – more of the same, Jordan acceptable.
Unless Classified Top Secret, names/locations of operators or info/details of weaponry in development, EVERYTHING MUST BE PUBLIC. This Washington crowd has somehow forgotten the US House f Representatives is the PEOPLES’ House. If they are so concerned over their “horse trading” being made public which will eventually prove them out as liars on the campaign train, perhaps they shouldn’t be horse trading on a vote as important as Speaker.
Maga voters are the majority for the Republican base; they either listen to their constituents or feel our wrath as we will Primary them.
Jordan is as good as we can expect until we purge Uni party members out. I prefer Gaetz as Spkr though he can’t get.
Keep making calls 📞 to your House member as some are still not wanting to vote Jordan…Name and Shame on social media and post
their contact #S.
ultraconservatives’ demands this Congress.
He means everyday normal Americans.
Was thinking the same. Replace “ultraconservatives” with “centrists”, everyone else has moved far to the establishment left.
Interesting Breitbart headline.
Grassroots Energize for GOP Unity Behind Jim Jordan Speakership Bid
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/16/grassroots-energize-gop-unity-behind-jim-jordan-speakership-bid/
Grassroots pressure…
My reply would be – “So you don’ like the Constitutional form of representative government that we are supposed to be following? You prefer to only represent a few big money corporations and mega-donors rather than the hundreds of thousands of citizens within each of your respective districts? Your personal net worth growth is not supposed to influence your decisions in Congress; only the economic welfare and security of the majority of your voters. The Constitution stipulates one man = one vote, NOT one dollar = one vote.”
I love the 2nd. Sums up my feelings perfectly.👍👍👍
Praise God!
Bannons War Room Posse have been flooding the fake Republicans offices with phone calls.
Jim Jordan is the best we can get. He’s not perfect. But let’s not let the perfect be the enemy of getting someone who is at least fairly good. He has MAGA beliefs. He has worked with the Uni-party faction. He’s in the best position to bridge the camps and hopefully give the GOP a spine at least on some things.
JJ has good, old fashioned middle class, working class values. YOu can’t say that about most of them. They want to SHED all remnants of the class they came from.
So, even if he wins, what do we have? A do-nothing big talker. That is all.
You miss the one important role of a Speaker. It’s to communicate to America. HE has the MIC. JJ communicates common sense and middle class/working class values and common sense.
In many ways, KevIn Mc was at least willing to stand up every day in front of the mic and tell the media in what ways Joe Biden was full of crap.
So far my new Rep. Wesley Hunt seems o.k., he’s a freshman, so the old bulls are trying to push him around. I keep in contact. It is easy using the contact form on his house website. Of course, he could compare my emails to CTH and not see any daylight between the two.
Wesley Hunt is maga.
It doesn’t matter whether they back Jordan now or not, every one of those RINOS is getting primaried anyways. The base is tuned in and ALWAYS watching.
Someone on the “R” side has to win. Best to support what we have than any of the RINO alternatives.
I hate this strategy by our side …
“by voters demanding support and threatening a removal primary against any House member who tries to stand in the way of the people”
If the turds are not MAGA no one should vote for them under any circumstances. The turds get to be turds by throwing MAGA a bone once in a while?
Mike Lee
@BasedMikeLee
What a cheap-shot headline and article. The MSM is the communications arm of the Democratic Party.
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Article linked (article is about how dems refer to Jordan as an insurrectionist). :
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jim-jordans-role-jan-6/story?id=104014959
When the rubber meets the road, Jordan will sell voters down the road. Bet on Ukraine funding, Israel funding, government funding, limited hangout deep state exposure for the lowest hanging fruit, and a tiny bandaid for the festering hatchet wound for a wide open border. American democracy™️ is fake and gay. Bring on red Caesar!
You DO understand, don’t you, that not even Donald J. Trump will cut off all funding of the Ukraine War.
Advance the football. – Dan Bongino
It doesn’t matter as long as he is moving our agenda forward. McCarthy was as much as a keyboard tough guy, but pussed out when it came down honoring his promise. Gaetz did the right thing to move to oust him. Punishment – meaningful punishment – will make believers out of some of these Uniparty simps. They crave power and wealth more than they do anything else.
I think you have pre judged him. The fact that the DC insiders do not want him should let you know that yes, he fell on his sword at time to try and unify the party, but Mac refused to heed our directives, I think Jordan wants to MAGA, he will send out subpoenas, he will try to play the right politics to get Trump elected, then all crap should hot the fan, with a house, senate and MAGA W.H. it would be time to make bold moves.
The DEATH THROWS of the Establishment and RINO cabal!!! 🤨
It won’t matter. He is all hat and no cattle. Has always been and always will be. Too bad there are few men or women with a spine and conscience.
Check this wacko from CA. out:
LOL!!!
I stand ready to primary Rep. Wagner-or forget to fill in her box-in an election context.
BCS-please, please, please find someone to primary Rep. Ann Wagner!
You’ve got to be shi**ing me.
Oh yea, tell organized criminals and ballot harvesting gangs to simply check the box and the election corruption problem simply goes away.
Mail in balloting is a crime against a nation and those pushing it are traitors.
I have seen no discussion of who will replace Jordan on the Judiciary Committee as Chairman. We can’t afford to put a RINO in there just to get Jordan as Speaker.
Now “news” articles freely use the term “ultra conservatives”.
Can’t ever recall a news article mentioning the “far left”.
“a senior appropriator who has been similarly skeptical of the ultraconservatives’ demands”
“Ultraconservative.” Yeah right. But how does a senior Republican appropriator think someone’s budgetary demands are too conservative? A replacement seems in order.
I have small hope Jordan will deliver on some of his promises, but I’m enjoying watching Gaetz’s strategy take a wrecking ball to the old establishment order. If one man can do this much damage to the corrupt system, it makes you wonder what the rest have been up to.
Apparently some GOP holdouts are complaining about the “grassroots pressure” on them to vote for Jim Jordan.
To that I say:
1. Get used to it – America First has taken over.
2. Tread carefully – This was us being nice. If you backstab us, just ask Bud Light what happens.
https://truthsocial.com/@DC_Draino/111247567871316026
Normal people don’t like politics because it is dishonest and messy. Forced by the big steal to get back involved locally I recruited folks to fill the vacant precinct delegate positions in my county Republican Party. We won a majority and cleaned house electing new officers and executive committee. After that it has been messy as normal folks all have their idea of how to proceed and consensus is tough to reach. Trump is the linchpin that we rally behind and their motives are pure. No one is profiteering at this level. But you have to stow your “my way or the Highway” approach to make any progress. I can’t imagine doing this in the pit of vipers known as DC, but I thank God there a good men & women fighting in the trenches.
I’ve got $20 that says that Ukrainian Indianian Spartz votes against him, denying Jordan an unanimous win
Ah, Sundance? Has it occurred to you that behind closed doors Jordan likely sold out the base over Ukraine funding and continuing to block access to the J6 video footage and coverup? RINOs haven’t caved to the base before. Boehner and Ryan chose to resign rather than represent the base.
I do not care where your at , start calling this creeps office Mike Simpson (ID-02), Russ Fulcher already sent me a email saying he was backing Jordan. If I was younger I would move to Eastern ID and run against this worthless rino.
I called his local phone and the D. C. phone. I got an answer machine. I left MESSAGE!!
Hey Jim, I think you are fake and will pull a rino out of your hat.
Prove me wrong.
RINO RINO RINO
That term is a misnomer. Why we think the Republican Party is, was, or ever will be an ally to John and Jane American should end right now. The Republican Party is the first political party to declare war on its own people and is the virtual Lucy-With-The-Football Party ever since it’s inception. They *hated* The Gipper, but now always invoke his name. They are not the conservative party….they have some conservatives, probably about 5%, but that’s it. The rest are, as many have already said, democrats who couldn’t get elected in republican districts.
Ever consider that *we* are the actual RINOS? And that may be because the GOP is the closest we’ll ever get to an actual (5%) conservative party? I guess it’s the devil we know…but in the end, it’s the *devil*….we pay the consequences…..
I haven’t read the comments yet but I saw that DC Draino tweeted/X that the No Labels pac was having a call last night with the Rep Bacon faction of McCarthy’s crew to keep Jordan from becoming Speaker.
Have you seen this chart ? Yep, my Rep Mark Green (TN CD7) is #2 on the chart Politicians who profit from WAR. See #2 on the list @RepMarkGreen .
https://gettr.com/post/p2spkgb54db
I’m from Massachusetts. Who can I email or call?
Seriously, I feel as though I am left out of the conversation. I can read, post and comment on social media, but there is no one in office in MA who gives a fat rat’s ass what I think.
If Jordan is speaker, my input into his poll grinding machinery might at least have a tiny voice.
Message your MA Congressperson on their official page. Keep it short and to the point, letting them know who you support and who you don’t and why, or however you wish to express it. Forget that they don’t care, it lets them know they’re being watched. Check the box requesting No reply.
I’m from Maryland, I know how you feel.
I called Rep Carhy McMorris Roger’s office (R-WA) to see where she stood with Jim Jordin. They wouldn’t give me an answer…WHY NOT? Total lack of courage and laying low to see where the political wind blows. I told her office if she doesn’t vote for Jordin and get serious about her job I will support her opposition in the primary. I’m disgusted with business as usual…TRUMP 2024