Marjorie Taylor Green and Thomas Massive together brought a motion to the House floor to remove Speaker Mike Johnson from office. However, a considerable number of Democrats joined Republicans in a 359-43 vote to table the motion and protect Johnson’s speakership.
Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) aligned with MTG and Massie. Eight Republicans including Andy Biggs, Chip Roy, Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), Eli Crane (R-Ariz.), Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.), Barry Moore (R-Ala.) and Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) all voted to remove Johnson and create an unknown outcome, perhaps even a Democrat speakership.
After the failed effort to remove him, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson spoke to the media. WATCH:
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I do not see any way this effort to remove Mike Johnson would benefit candidate Donald Trump, the MAGA movement, or the semi-supportive/passive-aggressive Republican Party that genuine MAGA has to contend with.
It also seems strange that many Democrats did not relish supporting the stupid effort and making a mess out of Congress in an election year. Factually, the only beneficiaries of this chaos scenario, a scenario that could have resulted in legislation to block Trump from office, would be Democrats and perhaps Ron DeSantis or RFK Jr. {BACKGROUND}
Is anybody else here sick of MTG BULL:SHIT. Go home MTG and screw the hell out of your lover McCarthy and leave MAGA alone.
Everyday I am more and more proud of my “user” name of this website. I fully support what MTG did, whatever her motives might be. Some people can’t handle the truth. Boehner+Ryan+McCarthy = Johnson! Enough is enough.
People can handle that our reps are uniparty asshats. We, MAGA, cannot accept that this transparently helps anyone but PDJT.
I also support what she did.
she knew she didn’t have the votes.
she made the traitors show themselves.
democrats picking mike johnson over hakeem jefferies tells you all you need to know about this charade.
she made the traitors show themselves.
democrats picking mike johnson over hakeem jefferies tells you all you need to know about this charade.
Concur
Agreed Even Thomas Massie said that was the intent
How? They voted to retain Johnson which keeps a new speaker vote at bay. A new speaker vote is a problem.
You’ll note that the democrats didn’t vote for Jeffries. That’s the whole point. They’ll get more out of Johnson and then they can continue the pretense of being at-odds with a RINO. Thus, the democrat lunatics can reassure their woke, Marxist base that they are fighting “the man”.
Amen
amen. People want people called out and then go after Gaetz and MTG. Now, you see who the enemy is don’t you. It filtered much further than McCarthy.
mtg did not expect a vote. This was a principle motion. The vacate motion was tabled. So it was not voted for or against. We know so much more about how the feckless repukes do business…and thanks to mtg we are much wiser to the Bible thumpers. Think mike pence.
Yes! The Bible thumpers, as you aptly call them, have always abused the true faith of conservatives. Pence, and now Johnson, sicken me. Nothing worse than their kind. They are as phony as phony can be.
To illustrate your point. There were people who voted to NOT table the vote on McCarthy who then voted to keep him as speaker.
Actually you are WRONG. Once tabled there WAS NOT A VOTE to remove him.
MTG was just fine with McCarthy doing the same things she now wants to get rid of Johnson for doing. MTG was one of McCarthy’s loudest supporters.
Well they were close
VERY close…in a most biblical sense of close.
Maybe she negotiated some wins out of McCarthy…..She is MAGA through and through but she is also pragmatic and strategic. Reminds me of some of DJT decisions.
sorry but how can one be MAGA through and through when the person who started the whole thing tells her to drop it and she continues? Who but President Trump would know when its not a good time. He’s in a solid loop none of us are privilege too and Sundance knows a lot about what’s going on.
And when Hakeem Jeffries takes the House and Congress remove Trump from the ballot?
You support it when it is a HIGH risk of Ds getting SOS and preventing installation of DJT as 47th President?
REALLY?
Well you are worthless to have around.
At this rate, Mike Johnson might oppose the seating of Trump. After all, Trump has the bad habit of supporting his worst enemies (Turtle Man and Closeted Guy).
“Boehner+Ryan+McCarthy = Johnson! Enough is enough.”
Yes, the timing was wrong, but her message to Johnson was more than justified.
The Ukraine bill w/o HR2 insert was inexcusable.
Johnson is, by actual vote, now the Democrat elected Speaker.
Suspicious Cat needs to sniff out what’s really in Johnson’s underwear.
Just like we need subpoenas so that the people can hear all the corruption in a very public forum…MTG got her very public forum to out Johnson , especially in front of his constituents. I hope the basturd losses in 2024.
The FISA No-Warrant thing is also inexcusable.
First this is the second UNSUBSTANTIATED reference on The Tree House that I have seen regarding an alleged relationship between Green and McCarthy. So I would simply ask: what are the specifics and why is it important?
Secondly, it sounds to me that Green is one hundred percent supporting MAGA by holding up the ugly TRUTH for everyone to see and perhaps more importantly showing us that there really is a uni-party and most Republicans are in it regardless of what we the voters want.
Maybe we would better spend our times and prayers in figuring out what we can do about it.
MTG voted for the unlimited debt ceiling bill. Bannon said she needed to be primaried. They’re now borrowing / printing $1 trillion dollars every 100 days.
MTG voted that McCarthy should have remained Speaker. Yet, now she wants to oust Johnson for doing the same things as McCarthy. She has exposed herself to be a hypocrite and fraud.
Body language experts noticed how MTG acted when around McCarthy. Their coverage is what mainstreamed the possibility that there was something between them. Her negative comments about Matt Gaetz because of his challenge to McCarthy as Speaker also suggested a more personal interest than a professional one.
MTG’s comments regarding the 20 who were not voting for McCarthy as Speaker in January were similarly much more personal than professional. She even went so far as to call Boebert a “b1tch” because Boebert’s motion for impeachment required a vote whereas MTGs didn’t.
My opinion is that McCarthy didn’t want an impeachment and MTG was happy to oblige him while making the people think it was going to happen.
Hey Muzzin, with all due respect; someone’s opinion about body language is not proof of a relationship. That is called rumors and gabbing. Nor did I defend MTG or suggest that she is perfect. At the same time, we keep getting screwed by those claiming to share our ideas before the elections. The fact is Johnson has betrayed most everything he said and promised and there is no consequence for him OTHER then temporarily getting the support of the Democrats.
well, that comment is totally unwarranted, irrelevant, stupid.
there are rumors that her and mccarthy had more than a professional relationship(rumors,i have no clue as to their validity)…..remember,mtg went to the mat trying to save mccarthy
s speakership(remember,this was paul ryan
s wingman,,who is now on a jihad to remove matt gaetz for some woke,pro-dei candidate0)...i want someone to ask mtg why she went to the mat for cuck mccarthy(who bannon himself pushed to remove) and why she does a 180 on another like-minded speaker…..something doesn
t square there...was it the assignments that mccarthy handed her?...or something else?...
either way,shes a hypocrite ..nobody seems to have the balls to ask why she was so pro-mccarthy(arguably a much worse establishment/cuck speaker than even johnson…from his very political roots to current day)…
something doesn`t square….ask her the hard questions,bannon…
I think the main thing at the time was that it risked getting a Dem Speaker, for McCarthy’s actions that she considered not bad enough to take an extreme action for.
It also was an unprecedented historical action, so there may have been some hesitation to break the precedent.
Now that it’s been done, and Johnson’s actions are absolutely inexcusable, and they know it’s a “statement” that will never succeed in a full vote (Dems said so), MTG’s actions may have switched, and may appear more inconsistent and hypocritical than they might actually be.
Anyway, that’s perhaps one way to explain it without getting too crazy.
Thanks for sharing your adult opinion…
Nice try troll … You go home and screw yourself, what a mental midget … Must be Democrat in drag …
Well MTG has been dating Brian Glenn from RSBN for many months in case you missed it. https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-boyfriend-calls-liberal-women-ugly-1831218
bull$crap
Johnson represents the very first time in American history that either House of Congress fired(!) its Speaker. Personally, I would like to see this become “the new normal.” In both Chambers, you should know that your colleagues honored you with “the gavel.” But, they can take it away again just as quickly. “Better watch your back …”
I would also like to see both Chambers pass new “Rules” which give the Speaker much less power and discretion. For instance, any Member should be entitled to bring a bill to the Floor for a vote. The Speaker should preside, but not control.
McCarthy, not Johnson.
There is no Speaker in the Senate, and the powers of the Senate Majority Leader are quite different from those of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Each chamber makes its own rules under the Constitution.
Letting any House member bring a bill to the floor without it first being vetted (not necessarily approved) by the relevant committee would invariantly result in worse laws with wildly unintended consequences. We have too many of those already.
Letting any member bring a bill to the floor without first proving substantial support among other members would result in chaos. There are 435 House members …if only one bill was brought to the floor for debate and subsequent vote, by each house member, even once a month, the logistics are staggering. Does anyone get to read it or vet it before a floor debate? Has the CBO researched the fiscal impact? Would AOC and her merry band get to put a bill to recognize Palestine, as an independent state in place of Israel, on the floor every hour of every day until it somehow slips through?
Ever try herding cats?
They need to stop this “emergency crap” jamming bills thru with no debate or committee input – like the
“anti 1st amendment
anti semitism” bill.
Stop bringing bills to the floor. In fact, we don’t need one more bill. We need to rescind thousands of laws you made “getting things done”. We don’t want you to get anything done. We would be much better off paying all 535 of you 5 million each to stay home for a year. Ok, ten million each. It’ still a bargain.
I’m all for all of them staying home. What a mess they have made of things.
Absolutely. This “Imperial Speaker” crap that Pelosi & Ryan etc benefitted from had to go, and the Dems were happy to alter those rules too and blame the resulting “chaos” on “Republican Extremists who can’t govern”
I don’t believe “thinking” even comes into it.
Or, the IC is doing the ‘thinking’ for them.
There’s thinking, but you and I aren’t factored into that.
They all make me sick.
Could it be that the uniparty sees the benefit of blaming the republicans house for everything, for the time being?
Probably will campaign on this for a few months until they need to disqualify PDJT from the ballot after the republican convention?
Bring it on
It’s like a worm went up her nose and ate some brain away ,or something
It’s her way of supporting RFK on Global Worming 🙂
Anyone that supports a speaker that Pelosi supports doesn’t have a functioning brain cell or moral fiber in their body. What they have are excuses, the kind your parents used to whack you for. And Trump will not have a second term.
WaPo is celebrating the DEMOCRAT victory: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/house-democrats-house-speaker-hakeem-jeffries-mike-johnson/
Maybe it is too early to remove the speaker. Perhaps it would be more adverse to Trump to do it later.
It’s a “statement” or “resolution” but we have bigger fish to fry right now.
So if this would have hurt Trump, why didnt Pelosi and the other Dems go along with it?
Pelosi just said publicly she supported Johnson as Speaker.
So We are in agreement with Pelosi?
I get your point Sundance, but something doesnt make sense.
It would appear that we are missing something.
I believe Johnson is compromised. And in that state, he is more useful to the Dems than a forced Dem speaker. But there is a huge info gap here of exactly how a compromised GOP speaker would be more beneficial than a Dem speaker.
My guess is they will steer Johnson to be Dem friendly and give the Dems cover for what is about to happen.
What’s more fun than to get your supposed “opposition” to implement your agenda?
After all, the democrats succeeded using that model in 1877.
“The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era.
Immediately after the presidential election of 1876, it became clear that the outcome of the race hinged largely on disputed returns from Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina—the only three states in the South with Reconstruction-era Republican governments still in power. As a bipartisan congressional commission debated over the outcome early in 1877, allies of the Republican Party candidate Rutherford Hayes met in secret with moderate southern Democrats in order to negotiate acceptance of Hayes’ election.
The Democrats agreed not to block Hayes’ victory on the condition that Republicans withdraw all federal troops from the South, thus consolidating Democratic control over the region. As a result of the so-called Compromise of 1877 (or Compromise of 1876), Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina became Democratic once again, effectively bringing an end to the Reconstruction era.”–https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/compromise-of-1877
Johnson gets Republican votes too. Hakeem Jefferies would only get Democrat votes. That’s why they call it the Uni party. Johnson is the speaker for Uni party not the Republican Party.
The lobbyists control the Uni party and care not a whit about voters.
Yes, they have effectively shoved a UniParty speaker down our throats.
But with 200 RINOs, what else could happen?
The House is hopeless. 200 to 20, RINO to MAGA.
Add in 200 Dems, and it’s approx 400-20, so like 95% UniParty.
Senate not much better.
That is the sad state of our Congress.
If they don’t like what Trump proposes upon #47 election, they can easily and openly oppose him.
Yup. Johnson seems to be the front end and Pelosi the continuous butt end.
Compromised Speaker keeps the illusion of the two-party system. Democrats are passing their agenda and calling it bipartisan.
Opposition from the Freedom Caucus will be spun as wacko-bird extremism.
So how is that “good” for Trump?
It’s not. But you will enjoy it, citizen.
Maybe SOS “devout Christian” Johnson truly believes in his heart that he is a Democrat!!
! ….just like True the Vote discovered the loophole at the very end of our immigration law. It states that IF an illegal alien truly believes that he is US citizen then he MAY vote in a federal election?!!
I get it now. The farce is with us.
Listen there’ s been one time I believed anything Pelosi says and that’s when she said democrats would take the house simply because we all knew how they were going to take it.
Yep in 2018 when she said it I knew the House was going Democrat.
Pelosi has to support Johnson. She promised McCarthy that she would get him Democrat support should the Republicans challenge his Speakership. She was in CA because of Diane Feinstein’s death at the time of the McCarthy challenge. She didn’t provided the Democrat support that she promised. It’s why the Speaker Pro Tem immediately threw her out of the office she was allowed to use in the Capital. Staff and others moved her stuff because she was in CA.
How exactly does this help all the RINOS running for re-election, when MTG laid out Speaker Johnson’s Democrat accomplishments?
President Trump is being inundated with comments over on Truth Social saying they support Trump but feel they are being betrayed by all their so-called Republican representatives. Most people are not looking at the big-picture game; only that their pocketbooks can be tipped upside down and nothing will fall out.
Mike Johnson, the first opportunity he gets, will proudly put on his Brutus t-shirt against President Trump.
This is not a winning proposition for Republicans.
At what point do we start sending PDT a message: stop supporting and endorsing anti-MAGA RINOs? 24 of the 31 senators that voted for the Ukraine-Israel bill are RINO Pieces of Spit that PDT endorsed. McCarthy, McDaniel, and now rumors of Tim Scott, or — God forbid — Burgum as VP? Putting blinders on is not a strategy.
My point is the “big picture” game is not one that most MAGA sees.
MOST MAGA are not watching the chess board in the depths that SOME MAGA is.
MOST MAGA are seeing the border crisis, inflation, woke BS, attacks on our constitutional rights, home prices that are way out of reach for most Americans, crime coming into suburban communities, castration of children…
So while it’s appreciated and applauded that President Trump is playing both big picture and small picture games (May God bless him and protect him), this semi-knock on MTG is not sitting well with MOST MAGA, as MOST MAGA sees that they’ve been sold up the river by their “repub representative.”
2024 is for all the marbles, and MOST MAGA know this.
I don’t buy it – that there’s some 5D chess game.
Just Primary your RINO Rep now if you want to fix the House.
Most people (90%) having Repub rep have a RINO. So what are they complaining about? Of course they feel betrayed! So Primary the cucks! Now, not waiting for November. You wait, you get RINOs.
No good answer for this one.
Removing Johnson would create some chaos.
OTOH, it’s clear that he’s compromised and is working for the Deep State and its illegitimate offspring, the (unelected) Biden-Harris Junta.
No good choices, or potential good outcome here.
You got half of it correct.
Smoke and mirrors.
More kabuki theater for the masses.
Thank you, Sundance!
(“Sum coffee for you, Suspicious Cat?”)
(“No thanks, already had mine way earlier – that is, I would have, if I drank coffee”)
Well the fact that the Democrats voted to keep him tells you everything you need to know about US politics and Johnson’s performance. Somehow the Dems were able to overlook his views on abortion to do it, too. Perhaps it was a protest re: the 90 billion+ US tax dollars earned by hardworking Americans that is going to three small countries halfway across the world. These billions are leaving US shores at a time when Americans are having a difficult time feeding their families and putting gas in their tanks. But this foray was only performative anyway. There seem to be no actual America First representation of US taxpayers willing to keep US tax funds in the US. Even Trump is willing to give it away as ‘zero percent interest loans.’ WE need truly America First candidates.
Johnson fully funded abortion – he hasn’t taken a stand on anything he said he believed in. He says one thing and does another. He is a sickening display of everything I hate about politicians.
Impeach the spineless cuck
We are in a messy time—not everything can be neat or unified behind the one goal of electing Trump—congress is corrupt, along with the executive branch. I don’t suspect MTG was working against Trump. Johnson betrayed us—there was just cause for removing him. We have to get past the point of putting up with these people because we somehow might get Trump—all our eggs in one basket is not a good strategy.
Yes, thats my initial take as well.
It is high time for term limits.
Setting the table for themselves , so to exclude us.
The biggest issue that I see as causing the rise of the Uniparty is that the Republicans seem to thrive on chaos, so therefore they are unable to mount any significant challenges to the power structure. It’s all performative, IMHO, as a way to keep the party fractured, as evidenced by the fact that there seems to be a rotating cast of characters who take turns being “disruptive”.
Right now, MTG is center stage but what is her end goal, other than to create more drama? So many in the middle, who might actually be decent legislators, end up either quitting altogether in disgust or drifting to the Democrat side because they seem more disciplined and no one wants to be associated with the “crazies” on the right flank!
Here in Washington State, the Republican party has just endorsed a candidate for Governor, yet again, who has absolutely ZERO chance of winning statewide, but the more they lose the further to the hard right they move, determined to “prove” that they alone hold all the answers! Anyone who doesn’t jump onboard the crazy train with them is branded as a traitor and all the sane people have left the party, which is why the state hasn’t elected a Republican to statewide office for decades.
I am so heartily tired of all of the screaming and all of the finger pointing and the whole blame game. It was fun to watch the Harlem Globetrotters when I was a kid but now, I see how the game was rigged all along and somehow, it’s not entertaining at all anymore…
So the MAGA wing finally tries to “fight back” and the UniParty resists and calls it CHAOS! Why can’t they just be good little UniParty Bi-Partisan grunts!
Optics from the IC.
That’s all.
All a BS show. Everyone knew the outcome prior, so the vote was pure theater.
It was absolutely theatre, but was a needed “statement” after Johnson’s inexcusable repeated betrayals.
Heres an idea…remove em all…every sorry -ass one of them..the whole lot….and start over……this is all far beyond disgusting…..
end of mini rant……..and now back to regular comments ..thank you
I am beginning to think that perhaps it would be best for an Act of God to occur that sweeps DC clean. Weird tsunami or something to start over
Voters have the Primary Power. But God can support them.
Fine – when’s that happening? At least the 90% RINO group would be home golfing then.
My only comment is I wish the House would adjourn until after the election! The spending damage has already been done!!!
Most of the Democrats backed Johnson because it seems clear that Johnson cut a back-room deal with the Democrats to pass their agenda in exchange for Democrat votes to keep his Speakership.
I think this, among many other broken promises and betrayals of Republican voters (including Johnson’s promise to release the complete un-redacted J6 videos), caused President Trump to state yesterday that vacating Johnson from the Speakership may be an option in the future, but not now due to the political disruption it would cause. President Trump supports Johnson, for now, but threw some bigly shade at Johnson yesterday.
Patriots of Louisianna, if you are unhappy with Johnson, then primary him and remove him from Congress in November 2024 (if LA election rules permit at this point in the electoral timeline).
If President Trump wins in November 2024, then retaining Johnson as the Speaker or leader of the Republican caucus (if the Republicans lose the House) will be a disaster. PDJT will need leaders of courage and conviction in key roles in his second term to do what is necessary, not weaklings and sell-outs (speaking politely) like Johnson.
We need Recall power
Political calculation can be correct and irrelevant — the benefit is to all who are understanding “stop pretending”!
The removal of Johnson EARNS the removal Johnson and the consequence is an “unknown outcome” –the use of the word “create” as in “create an unknown outcome” shifts the goal from “removal” and the praise and congratulations from our “warriors” (MGT and company) and makes the “enforcement” forces responsible for “fixing things in advance and while out of power” to make sure we come out “okay” — before they can challenge CORRUPTION.
Do you believe any who pulled a trigger at Lexington and Concord in 1775 knew the outcome or long term consequence?
Sometimes you have to do the right thing now AND pay a price in the medium term in order to have ANY CHANCE of long term success.
Thank you!
Spot on SD. I like Bannon and War Room but this motion to vacate at this late of date is assinine.
It’s never too late to stand up for your rights and values, and promises made!
It can absolutely be the wrong time. She should have had this pissing contest when the clown nearly immediately agreed to a new debt ceiling.
Johnson was approved too quickly, IMHO.
Nothing to sweat, it’s just a “resolution” to demonstrate our extreme disappointment at his betrayals.
I know I’m not as sophisticated, learned or intelligent as Sundance and the CTH community, however, I fully support MTG. She was clear, concise and echoed my sentiments exactly; Speaker Johnson is working for the Democrats and he is NOT performing in any capacity on behalf of this Republic.
Johnson is accelerating the decline and demise of our country. He is accelerating the spending spree of the Biden Administration. He is funding the border crisis, which is destroying this country, and threatens the integrity of the 2024 election.
Johnson is corrupt. He is a Traitor – not just to the Republican Party, but to our Republic itself.
I don’t give a rats ass about the timing. This is disgusting, and I am completely fed up with the sorry corrupt criminals that have destroyed this country.
I’m with MTG the whole way.
So we could have a useless vote with the outcome pre-ordained?
Everything MTG is saying about Johnson equally applies to McCarthy. Yet, she 100% supported McCarthy.
IOW she (MTG) said what you wanted to hear?
What are empty words and empty actions worth?
What is the result? What changed since yesterday?
When 100% of Republicans voted in favor of Johnson as the new Speaker, suspicious cat should have been front and center. Took MTG to bring the receipts!
When the entire Ron DeSantis team are applauding the efforts of MTG…. it’s time to stand back and evaluate.
They did the same thing with Harmeet Dhillon.
when the entire democratic house chooses johnson over jeffries . . .
Interesting.
🤔
Sundance, is there one thing that MTG said about what Speaker Johnson has done to undermine MAGA and Conservatives that is not 100% on point??
Might be reading to much into this.
Since his selection, the reality is that Johnson was all TALK and then does the OPPOSITE action. Perhaps team DeSantis is simply playing politics since many MAGA see what Johnson said versus what he then did and feel betrayed (like me – again).
We trust you, we weren’t fooled by FILTHY Harmeet or Napoleon DeSantis, and his paid for friends. What is behind MTG and Massie?. I don’t expect saints to represent me.
The rules they wanted to leverage were righteous and MAGA. We should talk about them.
Let’s hear facts about ulterior motives not innuendo. I can only take so many broken hearts. Prayers for Sundance.
Why would that same rationale NOT apply to Pelosi et al supporting Speaker Johnson?
Battered Conservative Syndrome is raging in the interwebs. And apparently in the Treehouse.
Sigh…
https://x.com/BrainStorm_Joe/status/1719688664563773926
Speaker Johnson discussing inquiry into Joe Biden’s bribery crimes. Congress upholding their oath.
Do they throw MAGA a bone on occasion? This looks schizophrenic…
I would like to thank Alex Mooney for making my vote easier this coming primary. No vote from me will be what he will be getting.
?! Why are people so enamored with Democrat turned Republican (as politically expedient to ride Trump’s coat tails!) mask mandating Jim Justice! Holy cow, even the Democrats see the buffoonery! WV giving McConnell another vote, almost better off with frickin’ Fetterman. But I guess that’s how the game is played, trade out Manchin for Justice. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Not to mention that Justice has completely ruined White Sulpher Springs by housing his Chinese hotel workers in otherwise abandoned motels in town.
I’ve seen too many votes by Mooney to vote for him. Check out his record in the house. At first, I really liked him until those votes came in. Justice might not be great but he hasn’t proved himself by the votes.
more democrats wanted mike johnson than hakeem jefferies for speaker
MTG showed us the receipts
she has my vote and backing (except I can’t vote in her district)
Why not? It’s Georgia!
🤣 😂 😅
Well, yeah, it is an election year, and with a slim majority and a hundred or so cowardly Republican Rinos the outcome of ousting Johnson is pretty much predictable.
On the other hand, if the Rs manage to hold on to the House, Johnson has to go. He’s not ready for prime time and I won’t forget when his forked-tongue hissed that there would be no tax-payer money for Ukraine until the border was closed. Not to mention giving the Ds an excessive amount of money we don’t have to whiz on every American while boasting and laughing while they do it.
I’m old enough to remember when a broken promise of “read my lips” had consequences….
Mike Johnson is an out and out traitor. He needs to go. I am sick and tired of these “give away” republicans who will do anything to further the liberal agenda. If they won’t stand up…they need to go!
What Are They Thinking?
Well, I am thinking: Charades
I trust PTrump. He said over on Truth Social that now is not the time to move to vacate.
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Considering it does not necessarily require a D Speaker to support “legislation to block Trump from office”, Trump is being very prudent. As I think he would admit, I guess he is now a politician 🤪
P. S. After considering my previous “rant”, I would propose to you that we are about to become the Akkadian empire redux:
https://rumble.com/v4szdpb-the-lost-empire-the-akkadian-empire-historical-documentary-ancient-apocalyp.html
Nothing to say about the removal attempt. No opinion there. Mike Johnson gives me the creeps like few people do.
Rep. Chip is a never Trump.
True, Chip Roy supported DeSantis in the primary. He may have chosen poorly, but no one in Congress has a more conservative voting record than Chip Roy.
couldn
t agree more....the bannon narrative of "they needed democrats" seems weird...they needed a majority...they got a total of 11 republicans...
wed better start focusing on november…none of these peripheral distractions are going to amount to a hill of beans if we don
t win in november.....bannon is a chaos agent who seems to have lost the ability to think strategically..look,i like fire breathers but with him it
s all chaos all the time(does he think its good for his podcast to try and keep people
s hair on fire?) ….were "allegedly" leading in many polls..they
re chasing us….stop giving them a cudgel to hammer us with(governemnet shutdowns…speakership musical chairs)…..we need to focus on all these mail-in ballot shenanigans…all these illegals who may well be voting…..
time to focus like a laser on the one thing that just might save the country…winning in november…enough internecine warfare…enough circular firing squad crap…once we get the wh,then we start sorting things out…the traitors…the biden executive orders…the economy…the border….but we HAVE to win in november or it`s all moot…
You expressed my sentiments on Bannon far better than I have.
It isn’t always about DJT. In this case it’s about getting House RINOs on record: “Are you okay with a speaker that overrules the wishes of the majority of the party and puts legislation on the floor that gives the Democrats everything they want, gets nothing in return, and makes a mockery of promises made to the party base?” It is a total red herring that Jeffries could become Speaker. Unless so-called Republicans mutiny ─ which they could do any time they want anyway ─ that’s not going to happen. There are only twenty House members that deserve reelection out of 435 (Banks, Biggs, Bishop, Boebert, Brecheen, Cloud, Clyde, Comer, Crane, Gaetz, Good, Gosar, Hageman, Jackson, Luna, Massie, Norman, Ogles, Rosendale, Self). GOP voters need to understand that THEY are returning the enemy to Congress year after year.
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Agree.
And I will proudly cast my vote for my representative on that list .. .
Sorry. Remove Andy Ogles from the list of keepers. The idiot just introduced a despicable bill that would send any person charged and convicted for illegal activity on a college campus to Gaza for at least six months. Clearly, the AIPAC lobby has bought off his belief in the 1st Amendment.
MTG is not super bright. In my opinion it was a wasted effort, that instead of getting rid of asshole Johnson, elevated him. She sounds & looks like a saltine “cracker.” Her move gave the demonrats a chance to laugh at the idiot Republicans. Sick of these idiots; did no one teach them the game of chess???
Or maybe, just maybe, MYG is NOT full of crap and means exactly what she says, you seem to have neglected that possibility in your analysis.
agree 100%
You have a point except you did not realize that Hakeem Jeffries has already been speaker of the house or should I say Nancy Pelosi. FYI based on recent town halls for Representatives largely by far support what MTG was going to do and did…American people are behind her!
Wait a minute. If this had been a motion to vacate the Speakership in 2016 with Paul Ryan, what would be the consensus? Ryan and McConnell back stabbed Trump the entire term! Why even bother voting for Trump if he’ll have a Republican caucus constantly shivving him? Let Hakeem have it, and let it burn! The Uni-Party DO NOT believe in turning the ship around. Unless we in short order replace over half of Congress, there’s no way out of this trajectory! Damn this talk of chaos, the Democrats have thrown everything into chaos and calling out a Speaker that serves a Democrat authoritarian agenda and financial collapse is fair game, Presidential election or no election. Trump only supports Johnson until November because he thinks he can control him like a school boy. Johnson has already proven he’ll listen to whatever the permanent bureaucratic state and big donors tell him to do.
To make significant change MAGA has to have the whole enchilada. Otherwise Trump is just the Dutch boy with his fingers in the dike. I wish we could take the 11 that voted to vacate and multiply them by 50. Maybe then we’d have a Congress that worked For The People.
Sundance is right, it’s a “stupid effort” because the sole priority now is to get Trump elected, and this noise doesn’t help. Get the Speaker you want after Trump’s inaugurated.
Now on here, people who stand with Trump is putting up a stupid effort. Sometimes, I don’t get this place. They rail on RINO’s, got Johnson, but lets stop patriots who want these scumbags removed.
She had to have known this and known that she would lose. There must have been another motive such as exposing the votes and getting those names public. I was surprised my rep Mooney voted with them. He is running for the Senate and has been a good conservative.
MTG did know. She knew when she filed the motion that she would have to get support. She said it. This is just to get attention in an election year. She did nothing positive last year.
Remember what Madison Cawthorne said…and where is he, right now? Your Alex Mooney got skeletons.
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I don’t know what’s behind the bad strategy. MTG also supported McCarthy last go-round. And Massie has been anti-Trump.
But this does seem to me to be a good illustration of standing on a correct principle but doing so when the timing and circumstances make doing so a counter-productive losing proposition and not strategic.
I can think of a number of issues this applies to.
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Mike Johnson will NOT be elected as speaker in the next congress. The prelim rules for term will be written and enforced up front to in my view prevent him for having a meaningful nomination and MUST be absent dem votes to install him. The reps actually elected not selected will be the proof of the pudding., I may not be holding my breath.
Oh, I think the “powers” who oppose mtg did what they thought would trigger her response. Her reasons are not bad. But the timing is not good. Eli Crane said they knew it would not pass. For him it was statement of principle. He did not speak for mtg. mtg is a drama queen. She is NOT evil. A bit too impulsive. There is no need to personally attack her. She has revealed some really important matters and dealings. Perhaps Americans will be more inclined to NOT fall for every sweet, not profane, soft spoken, well groomed, rfkjr, rds, kmcc, elon musk, tucker, or beautiful face. We are so shallow. That vacate motion was tabled…GOOD. It did not hurt anyone. mtg is correct. Her timing is NOT. We know exactly who johnson is. Trump did NOT throw mtg under the bus…BUT HE DID PUT JOHNSON ON NOTICE. johnson should not get real comfy with Trump. He is keeping score…as always. I agree with Trump’s approach to this matter. In my opinion, johnson threw out the baby with the bathwater…not mtg.
I guess we should pay more attention to the consequences of getting our wishes around here. Lets be careful about what we wish for in the future, we just might get it. Politicians live in a world that was deliberately restricted by our founders and they consequently live with a different reality from the rest of us. This makes them vulnerable to the power plays of the political Parties they belong to.
Parts of both political Parties are working together to keep what little is left of their power in the DC Swamp. This is due to the existence of the unelected 4th branch, which has usurped the supposed powers the other three branches were supposed to share.
Our only hope for survival as a free State will be whether We the People can right the ship. PDJT is now our only hope to restore the Executive branch for now. Lets get out there and get him elected against all of the odds stacked up against us. We have to talk to our brainwashed relatives and try to show them the consequences of Collectivist claptrap on all of our lives. They may not like what they see, but they have to have their heads pulled out of the sand to see anything. The alternative is indeed bleak.
I am not sure I made enough sense with this little rant. Essentially, I want to keep my individual freedoms and it is obvious that they are endangered.
You made perfect sense.
Factually, the only beneficiaries of this chaos scenario, a scenario that could have resulted in legislation to block Trump from office, would be democrats and perhaps Ron DeSantis or RFK Jr.
You forgot someone, Sundance.
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They should have limped through with the RINO McCarthy instead of Johnson in the first place. But President Trump never had any support in the RINO Congress before, during or after his term in office. They have never been America First except for maybe five members at best.
When the chips are down, she’s a loose cannon. She should not be appointed to any position in Trump’s admin. When he asked that this not happen, she did it anyways. She’s lost her way and not a team player.
And teaming up with Massie? He’s just another loose cannon too. Spins off on his own tangents when it suits himself and/or his handlers.
Just 2 peas in a pod. Both are loose cannons.
Did you criticize Matt Gaetz when he got McCarthy booted? Team player? Team playing is what got us $35 trillion in debt and the last four Republican RINO Speakers.
MTG voted FOR the unlimited debt ceiling bill. MTG voted to keep McCarthy as Speaker despite his not keeping the promises he made in exchange for being elected Speaker – including individual budgets. Yet, now she files to vacate the speakership when Johnson is doing the same things as McCarthy did. A big reason as mentioned by Gaetz was McCarthy was aligning with Democrats to get bills passed that the Republicans didn’t want.
I mean, before you do ANYTHING, you’ve got to at least have a plan (until you get punched in the face).