Following Ken Buck (U-CO), Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher (U-WI) announces he is leaving congress.
This exit drops the GOP majority in the House to one seat, following a path that seemingly continues to put the Democrats in control prior to the 2024 election. This should be the GOPe insurance policy against President Trump’s successful election outcome. There are trillions at stake.
Gallagher’s exit date is as subtle as a brick through a window:
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I said last year to watch out for April 19th, Patriot’s Day. {SEE HERE}
December 2023 – (Via Politico) – […] during a flight from Canada to D.C. on Tuesday morning: former Speaker PAUL RYAN attempting to persuade Rep. MIKE GALLAGHER (R-Wis.) via text message to endorse Haley’s presidential bid. (more)
This is what we are up against.
Everyone has a leverage point.
Be open with your secrets, or you position yourself to be compromised.
I digress….
You know how corporations frequently have various brands to appeal to various consumers? They have the high end, the cheap end, the in-between, the flagship store customer, the discount mall customer. One company satisfies them all.
This is the Uniparty – the radical consumers get the new rat party (rabid marxists) – the people who who think they’re conservative but really aren’t all that conservative (the clueless) get the RINOS and think they’re getting a good deal. They’re not.
It’s all at the same party!
By summer Hakim will rule the Pelosi house and she will not be ripping up speeches. She will not allow him, Trump, to be certified. Watch for Mitch’s big play too and don’t forget all the booby traps Ronna left before going to msnbc. Thanks again to our Speaker for working directly with the Dems on spending all our money and keeping inflation high. Thanks for not securing our border and losing any and all leverage you stinkn GOP had. From here it’s a slow decent into hell. Keep an eye on Nikki…..
This congress will not be certifying the election, it will be the new congress of 2025
friskycat, ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT ?
I thought the newly eleceted concgress wil lnot be seated/sworn in yet
when 2024 certification happens ?
can informed Treepers clarify this important point please ?
It is the current Congress that will certify the ’24 election.
I will add this: If Trump wins the EC, enough Dems will vote to certify. There’s enough who will balk at the massive public disturbances that would result. Don’t forget, in ’20, all the Dems argued that certification was just a required formality. They will not risk their political lives to vote against the EC winner.
who is going to commit “massive public disturbances”?
the same people who keep screeching “what about j6” and “we are the party of law and order”?
See the gun grab law just passed to keep Maga in line
I wouldn’t be so sure this time. Trump threatens their grift.
Re: a tie in the electoral college:
By my present count, Republicans control 26 state delegations, and the Democrats control 23, with 1 tie.
Thanks to that Rank Choice voting, we have a Dem controlling Alaska as one of their 23.
Of course, depending on these quitters and if there are special elections, this could change.
No it is not. The new congress is sworn in on Jan. 3, 2025 and then they certify the presidential election on Jan. 6, 2025.
Yes, this what I thought also. After 2020, congress also changed the certification rule, now need 2/3 of congress not to certify, not one rep and one senator.
The 118th Congress term ends Jan 3 2025. The new 119th Congress will certify the 2024 election.
The newly elected Congress will be sworn in and seated Jan. 3rd. Certification should take place on Jan. 6th. But a speaker must be elected first.
The 118th Congress convened in Washington D.C., on January 3, 2023, and will end on January 3, 2025. That means the 119th Congress convenes on January 3, 2025. According to the National Archives, the 2024 election will be certified on January 6th, 2025.
Amendment XX
Section 1.The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
EC certification takes place on January 6, the new Congress is seated on January 3. As far as I know, January 3 occurs before January 6.
Yes but the Dems and GOPe RINOs are setting up something to happen in a lame duck session after the November election.
Correct. 118th Congress ends Jan 3 2o25.
The people elected to Congress in Nov. 2024 will be seated on Jan. 3rd, 2025.
The new Congress will certify the electors on Jan. 6, 2025.
Correct, but doesn’t the “old” (ie current) Congress have some say in who is seated in the “new” Congress? For example, if there are some close races that involve recounts and/or obvious shenanigans, then the “old” Congress (controlled by the Speaker – who could be a dem by then) can reject or withhold certification of those specific members of the “new” Congress (I thought Pelosi did that or tried to do that in one of the races in 2022?). If that is the case, and the “new” Congress has another razor thin GOP majority, not certifying one or two seats could flip the new Congress – at least until the legal challenges are settled, but they only need it flipped long enough to gum up the certification of the Presidential race, throwing it to the House – which they would control (at least temporarily).
Bottom Line: It’s not over until Trump is sworn in, they will fight until the bitter end and not go quietly. And all this assumes they don’t just steal the “swing” states they need so that certifying Trump never even comes up for a vote in the new Congress. And GOPe is more than happy to play along with the dems to keep Trump out.
What did Gallagher do for his kompromat, and is this his way to avoid it, or a consequence of it?
I’m thinking honey pot. He looks like the kind of pretty boy who would fall for flattery of the female kind. Once compromised, it’s a matter of paying him generously to act the right way–or else.
The Chinese MSS are not to be underestimated, and with him in charge of the House CCP Committee, he’s in the spotlight for multi-faceted compromise avenues.
But it is telling that he is leaving after the 9 April deadline, so someone other than the Chinese told him when his exit date was going to be. If he’s MSS compromised, it would make sense for him to stay at the CCP subcommittee. So which Deep State tra itor got him to delay by ten days for reasons other than national security…more like election interference?
Maybe he’s ultimately removing himself from the overall Power game, denying them their hold over him. Dunno.
Marjorie Taylor Green made an interesting point — Vote now to immediately remove Gallagher from the House. He’s off the hook and the Rs keep the seat?
“He’s off the hook and the Rs keep the seat?”
What makes you so sure Rs keep the seat? Don’t know Wis election law, but probably a “jungle” special election where you can have “splitters”.
Correction. Looked up the Wis law:
(4) Regulations on special elections.
(b) A vacancy in the office of U.S. senator or representative in congress occurring prior to the 2nd Tuesday in April in the year of the general election shall be filled at a special primary and election. A vacancy in that office occurring between the 2nd Tuesday in April and the 2nd Tuesday in May in the year of the general election shall be filled at the partisan primary and general election.
If he resigns before 9 April there would have to be a special primary before a special election.
Republicans should George Santos this arse and throw him out before April 19th. He wants to play calendar games, then the Republican conference should do the same. Throw him out for sabotaging the majority.
All it would take are two Republicans and Gallagher to vote with all the Democrats to defeat an expulsion vote. With all those RINOs, you know they can find at least 2 of them.
which is why the fascists don’t even need the “majority” to decertify. they know they have at least a dozen “republicans” on any given issue.
Article I Sec 5/2:
Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member.
The biggest mistake the stupid Repubs made was to dump George Santos who was a truly MAGA conservative.
You can’t fix stupid.
That wasn’t stupidity. It was treachery.
push his arse out the door. now. I mean_after their well deserved vacation. Righty!
Remember that Menendez hasn’t resigned and was corrupt to the max, gold bars found and all. It’s so dystopian
GOP nothing but SOB’s.
Damn them all!
In the military and in the executive branch you cannot just resign, you must request to resign. Your boss can either accept your request or tell you no, tough luck, keep working. Congress ought to be run the same way where you cannot just up and quit whenever you feel like it. You told your voters less than 2 years ago that you wanted this job and were going to do the job. If you feel you need to quit you should have to submit your request to your bosses, the voters of your district, and allow them to either accept or reject your request by holding a snap special election that you would need to pay for out of your campaign funds.
Article One of the US Constitution specifies the qualifications to become a congressional representative. It says nothing about them quitting. It explicitly talks about vacancies opening in the Senate through resignation and about resignation for Presidents and Vice Presidents. It says nothing about resignations from members of the House. Adding rules for House resignations should be constitutional. (But no House would likely ever vote to limit their own personal flexibility.)
i absolutely disagree thats what we should want for the House. these damned traitors need to leave the SECOND they cop out. not next week, not next month, not on their schedule. NOW. the people of his district deserve to have the “representation” (since we are still pretending that matters) they demanded, and a guy who intends to quit has already checked out mentally anyway. REMOVE HIM TODAY.
If you’re enlisted, you sign a contract and you can’t “resign”. If you’re an officer, you have an initial obligation which might be extended if you accept certain orders, like flight school, before you can request resignation or even transfer out of active duty status.
I agree. IT is outrageous that they can just decide to leave on a whim.
The democrats in the house just passed a massive spending bill without any of the republican initiatives in it.
Tell me again what difference a republican majority makes.
Gallagher is Paul Ryan 2.0
I think I know what the rub is with persons of Congress. Many times I have asked myself the question, “How many members serve in elected office while also being employed, directly or indirectly, openly or in secret, by that federal agency which dares not say its name?
I have spoken of the golden lads and girls, recruited as emerging leaders, some on their first day of college in the Ivy League. Then they have a built-in advantage of sponsorship by Uncle Sam to leapfrog the normal boundaries to go to the top. It is unethical.
It is a conflict of interest to be employed by a sponsoring federal agency and elected to the legislature at the same time. Because it stacks the deck against honest people, who obey the rules.
The latest reporting is that Hunter, for example, was working for the feds, so he was untouchable. How many more are there like him? Hundreds? Thousands? The situation begs for investigation, exposure and legislative remedy.
I think we should start lie detecting the candidates.
Is the house allowed to vote him out now and not wait? Of course the better question is would they
SD refers back to the 702 authority as significant to the 4/19 date. I’m not sure it is vis-a-vis whether, or NOT, Trump is under 702 surveillance. Currently, 702 authorization exists through 4/19. But what happens on 4/20? Presumably, another authorization gets put/kept in place. So why is that R chump’s resignation effective 4/19 significant when it’s likely that an authorization would go beyond 4/19 no matter whether he resigns that day or not? I’ve read elsewhere that what is significant about the effective on 4/19 date is that it is just AFTER it is no longer possible for there to be an interim election in his state/district before the 2020 national election date in November. Hence his seat will stay unoccupied through the November election, depriving a possible R to be kept on the R side of the voting ledger. Then again, I haven’t checked how likely it is that it WOULD BE filled by an R if an interim, special election were held now.
He made sure he couldn’t be replaced and that is some traitorous stuff.
It is all a script and everyone is playing their parts.
They have a plan to keep Trump out. This isn’t good.
We were captured November 3, 2020.
We were captured long before that. We just happened to sneak one by the goalie in 2016. And they will never allow that to happen again.
There he stands, all brash and full of himself, Paul Ryan.
Notice the little wet spot on his right nostril?
Snorting cocaine can do that to a person. Just sayin’.
Everyone is found out about sooner or later…weak ones sooner.
The only question left is, “How much are these treasonous cowards, McCarthy, Buck, Gallagher, et al, being paid to quit the House in order to give control back to the communists?”
No doubt they were expensive to buy off but I’m sure some communist billionaire stepped up and shelled it out. No expense will be spared to buy the continued control of this country.
Oh geez, all I needed to read was what committee this traitor was on. To go spend time with your family is the biggest ruse to use when your d#ck is being squeezed in a vice. (Sorry AdRem).
Not going to denigrate a chicken’s name by calling him one. I think the documentary is “Life of A Chicken.” This guy gives “chicken” a bad name.
When is a majority not a majority? When so many of your team are a fifth column working for the Democrats.
A purge was always going to be required. This same purge will need to happen in the courts and in the bureaucracy as well.
We already know Democrats are calling the shots. What’s important is purging our ranks of these people. The fifth column Democrats operating inside the GOP revealed a lot of their members last Fall.
We can’t have a governing majority until we expel them all. Remember, we’ve had 50-seat majorities and still got nothing we voted for. That’s the scale of the problem.
So, good riddance. Thank you for proving us right. You’re a fraud. Many of your fraud friends remain. The more of you we drive out, the better.
Damn. Their fear of we the people tastes sweet. The Republican Party has been a rotting corpse for a long, long, time. The stench is awakening millions.
WHAT do they have on these guys ?
I can only guess.
Expect more to come…..
DAN BONGINO EXPOSED THIS TREASONOUS PLAN EARLIER – THESE RINOS ARE QUITTING DELIBERATELY TO REMOVE OUR MAJORITY SO THEY CAN MAKE DEMONRAT HAKEEM JEFFRIES THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE! THIS MUST BE PREVENTED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!
SPEAKING OF PREVENTING THINGS, WHAT’S YOUR PLAN TO PREVENT TRAITOR BIDEN FROM SIGNING THAT “WHO TREATY” IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS??? BETTER HAVE ONE!! IF YOU LET HIM SIGN THAT, IT’S ALL OVER!!
He can sign whatever he likes. The Senate passed S. Res 81 which mandates any agreement signed on a “WHO” matter will be subject to the treaty “advise and consent” power of the Senate.
BY THE WAY, ANYONE WHO SOMEHOW EXPECTS TRUMP TO “WIN” ANOTHER *RIGGED* ELECTION IS A MORON!! Y’ALL FIXED *NOTHING* ABOUT ELECTIONS SINCE 2020, AND IT’S CLEAR THAT THESE TRAITORS STOLE THEIR POWER & WILL DO ANYTHING TO KEEP IT! IF THEY CAN’T JAIL TRUMP, THEY’LL MURDER HIM, AS THEY’RE NOW SAYING IN *PUBLIC* ON TV THAT THEY WANT HIM ASSASSINATED!!
NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US, AMERICANS, NOT EVEN TRUMP!! THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE – WE MUST GET AMERICANS OFF THEIR ASSES & REMOVE THIS DAMN TREASONOUS GOV’T NOW – BEFORE TRAITOR JOE SIGNS THAT F’N “WHO TREATY”!!! THIS GOV’T IS THE EXACT REASON WHY WE HAVE THE 2ND AMENDMENT!! IT’S PAST TIME TO USE IT & REFRESH THE TREE OF LIBERTY!! LET’S HANG THESE TRAITORS ON PAY PER VIEW SO WE CAN USE THE MONEY TO PAY OFF THE DEMONIC DEBT THEY’VE RACKED UP!!
the plan IS to give the Democrats a majority. This is what Pres Trump will have to face for his final term. That’s not the worst case scenario. Here’s the worst: Let’s say a third party wins several states and grabs some of the electoral college votes ie Kennedy. He isn’t going to get enough to win. We know that. However, what if by some long shot-and it is but not impossible-he prevents Biden or Trump from getting the required 270 to win. What happens then? It goes to the House for a vote. Now it’s Democrat majority House. All they need are all the Dems which they’ll get plus you could toss in a few of the rinos/Never Trumpers.
The House votes by state delegation…Not by majority of members.
Each state get one vote.
R = 26
D = 23
Trump wins.
We aren’t known as the “Stupid Party” for nothing.
“Give me Liberty or give me Death!”
PH
At this point in time the “UniParty” is choosing the latter… 🧐 🤔 🧐
🙌🏼💃🏼❤️🇺🇸🙏🏼🇺🇸❤️💃🏼🙌🏼
These people are scum.
They will do EVERYTHING to keep PDJT from office.
The Uniparty is shifting control of the house for legislative purposes. Gallagher’s resignation on Patriots day shows they believe they are saving the country.
The most damaging thing they could pass for Senate approval and Jobama’s signature is what?
Legalizing a ballot for every illegal that has been flown into every little town in every swing state.
There will be an immediate counting of all the extra 30 million bodies and A BALLOT WILL BE MAILED for each.
Shift of control must be stopped. Traitors or Patriots? The are no life altering consequences. They don’t care. There is a hidden pay off. Why should they put the good of the nation ahead their personal benefit?
I believe they are traitors..
What are the consequences for traitors?
Seems to me they are planning a coup in the House of Reps. Trump may win the election and the House refuses to certify.
Law passed in 2022:
(B) Requirements for objections or questions.–
(i) Objections.–No objection or other question arising in the matter shall be in order unless the objection or question–
(I) is made in writing;
(II) is signed by at least one-fifth of the Senators duly chosen and sworn and one-fifth of the Members of the House of Representatives duly chosen and sworn; and
(III) in the case of an objection, states clearly and concisely, without argument, one of the grounds listed under clause (ii).
(ii) Grounds for objections.–The only grounds for objections shall be as follows:
(I) The electors of the State were not lawfully certified under a certificate of ascertainment of appointment of electors according to section 5(a)(1).
(II) The vote of one or more electors has not been regularly given.
So, the Rino plan to stop Trump is to give the House to the Democrats, then
the Democrats find a reason not to certify Trump as president.
There isn’t a Republican majority in the House now! There never was. It was simply an illusion. My Representative, John Rutherford, of Florida is the farthest thing from a conservative. He has voted for every horrible piece of legislation that is put in front of him. The New American magazine from the John Birch Society gives him a Freedom index of 50, which is roughly where Liz Cheney was. The problem is conservative voters are lazy. They can’t be bothered to vote in the Republican primaries. THAT is where the real election takes place. But it’s an inconvenience to the daily schedule, and besides they’ll get to vote for an R anyway. We are screwed.
just another RINO coward.
Can’t speaker ask him to leave before 9 April, so they can have a special election in this red district?
No. Gallagher would have to be expelled by a 2/3 vote of the House.
Sundance, it’s even worse: Gallagher deliberately timed this so that under Wisconsin law the seat has to be left vacant until after the November election. https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/rep-gallaghers-departure-timing-will-leave-seat-open-5613252?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=lead-special-2024-election-title-0
Can’t the leadership kick him out sooner,maybe find or make up some kind of scandal. also special election in California for Kevin MC McCarthy seat.
Was 30 pieces of silver enough to buy you, Mike, or was it blackmail?
Keep voting R’s and get the same results.
DONE with them.
We need another party or we take over the D Party. Perhaps we have the #’s to take over that party.
We are useless and worthless to the R party and its members. They listen to nobody, represent nobody and are greedy and corrupt; yes, same as D party. However, WE THE PEOPLE cannot control the R party.
So we take over D’s or start a new party.
I’m not wasting my damn vote any more on any R…
Johnson for example. I was told this wk by a friend, what a christian man he was and what a belief he had and how devout he was and I should listen to his testimony. I asked, and that means what??????????
He’s yet another BS leader and republican….
And HE WAS ALL-IN on yet another $TRILLION spending bill for the d’s, Biden and his buddies and cohorts in the r party.
They should eject him prior to that date.
And the swamp draining increases in velocity…
Even at the expense of of uncovering their agendas and “eating their young” the democrats are steamrolling their way to another steal in November.
No matter the tactics, they’re on course and their aim is true and they’re intentions are imminent. The question is “what’s our avenue for defeating the cheating “?
Now for the big question…what are we REALLY willing to do to get our country back? We all know what happens if/when we cross that line.
No doubt our way of life has been turned upside down in the last 3+ years. We’re on the brink of losing the America we all know and love. IF we make it to November and IF we can get Trump reinstated as our President we may be able to turn this abomination around. If not the aforementioned America is history.
The question stands…what are we willing to do for ourselves and our loved ones?
Well, maybe he will ride home on a Boeing 737 and …!
Impossible to tell the difference between a GOP majority and a GOP minority at this point. So what’s the difference?
I wonder if someone would advise on the plausibility of the following scenario? If the Democrats gain control of the House because of these RINO Republican early resignation manoeuvres, can they vote to exclude DJT from the ballot in November, using the 14th amendment. I got the impression, after the state ballot cases, that one of the Supreme Court Justices hinted this type of action was under the control of Congress. If so, why would they wait for certification, when they could have him excluded from the ballot, with no effective comeback from the Republicans.
Congress has the authority to enforce the provisions of the 14th Amendment under Section 5 of the same.
I thought I read that, Buck said 3 more would bail after him.
My wife reads the articles I forward to her about politics but, she depends on me to explain the pluses and minuses of what they mean to us rubes. I explained how scotus ruled that states cant keep Trump off the ballot and, in the same ruling, they said that only congress could make that determination.
After she read this post by Sundance, she asked me, “if the democrats get the majority in congress before the election and rule that Trump is ineligible to run or take office, what then”?
I answer with, “I honestly don’t know”.
Really, what will happen if this comes to pass? What recourse do the millions of people who support Trump have when the gov tells them “it’s over, sit down and shut up”?
Its been proven there is no one in gov that will step up and yell, “election interference”. If they existed, they would have already spoken out about the unjust prosecution of Trump.
What recourse do we have that is feasibility viable?
After telling her these things, her reply was,
“We are done and there is anyone who can do a damn thing about it”
I fear she may be correct!!!
Assume (yes I know the CT will say doesn’t matter) Senate would require a 60 vote cloture motion.
Thank you Scott s.
And all the people saying “We have to get Trump in”. Even if he wins and they certify him, how will he get anything done? Look at how the Republicans and Demoncrats are lined up, working against him and us. Face it: We need a national divorce.
Note how in that monstrosity of a bill, a Red Law was hidden, but it’s Okay by one judge for the illegal invaders carry
It’s heading to a precarious situation and to split away from this criminal Uniparty is the only situation
Marjorie Taylor Green proposed an interesting idea — call a vote to remove Gallagher from his seat immediately (i.e., before April 9th). My guess is an R would have to replace Gallagher (or else, MTG wouldn’t propose the strategy) despite WI having a D Governor
House seats can only be filled by election, in this case if vacant prior to 9 April by special primary/election or after 9 April in regular primary/general election. No one “has to” replace Gallagher.
Don’t know the timing for special election, but assuming 60 days for primary and 60 for election, that means around August.
Gallagher is not a Senator so his seat cannot be filled by Tony Evers.
RepGallagher should be REMOVED NOW!
It’s all intentional and should be met w/same intensity.
Congress should throw him out now
I heard on the conserv news that Spkr Johnson would have had to approve of this rep. departure date. Knowing the Reps are down to the wire on the majority in the House, why would the spkr allow this to happen? Sabotage, bribery??? Sounds very suspect.