Posted on 05/01/2024 8:19:43 AM PDT by hardspunned
Exactly.
It is a game within a game within The Game. We end up endorsing apparent Dem wishes by virtue of standing on our own guiding principles.
It is on a par with Dems voting as R's for the weakest R candidate in a state primary and then voting as a D for the Dem candidate in the general.
It also compares to Pelosi (D) changing House Rules so she could essentially determine the R members (who were decidedly rino's) that would sit on the Special Committee she formed for her purposes.
1OldPro expresses the more rationale view when stating: "The GOP [in this case the majority party] should vote to change the leader of their own caucus."
Speaker Johnson will be taken care of, one way or another, after Nov..We can't afford internecine distractions, now. The coming election takes precedence.
Exactly when did Nancy Pelosi ever compromise?
I disagree.
Johnson deserves every bit of the blame that he gets.
He was the deciding vote on the FISA warrants.
He’s already violated the Hastert rule.
What would he have to do to convince you that he’s working for the Democrats?
Does he have a better candidate in mind?
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That’s all there is to it, isn’t it? You either support Johnson or you support Jeffries.
All these people pretending to speak for MAGA when Trump himself supports Johnson. Ukraine is irrelevant to most people. All this will do is make Republicans look divided and weak. And it will make Johnson even more left wing.
Sometimes his policies aren’t conservative, and for that he should get criticism. But when it comes to setting the congressional strategy, he’s far superior to the trans woman MTG.
I was referring to Trump at the end there. Forgot to clarify.
Yep. They wil have a vote. A vote for which we already know the outcome. So, who's really going to be the loser here?
A. The Republican Party.
MTG needs virtually all the Dem votes to succeed. Johnson needs a few Dem votes to stay.
Got it.
Who wants to take that bet?
1. Before 2023-24, the last FISA reauthorization was adopted by Congress in 2017 — when the Republicans had full control of Congress and the White House. And guess who was one of the strongest advocates in Congress for the FISA surveillance reauthorization in 2017 … it was that dope Devin Nunes, who was all over the TV talk show circuit on Sundays complaining about FISA surveillance abuses by the U.S. government, then going to the House on Monday to push his colleagues to reauthorize that sh!t.
2. The Ukraine-Israel-Taiwan foreign/corporate “welfare for white people” bill was a classic establishment Republican pile of slop that would have passed in a GOP-controlled Congress and signed into law by George W. Bush in 2004 without even making headlines. There are no more than a handful of Republicans in Congress today who would ever oppose this crap if their votes were cast behind closed doors.
Johnson’s position on Ukraine never really changed, except when he joined a lot of other Pubbies into trying to coopt BIDEN’S TACTIC of combining a border bill with the foreign aid bill. Eventually Johnson hopped off, somewhat it appears in the realization that nothing Congress is going to pass in this session will improve the border situation at all while Biden is in office. More likely the opposite, IMO.
At that point, Johnson was faced with either a discharge petition for the disastrous Senate bill, or try to get something with at least a bit of a Pubbie stamp on it up for a vote, and angle for the border as an unresolved problem for the fall election. HR2 is still being sat on by Schumer, anyway...
This is stupid beyond belief. Not a Johnson fan but WTH!? Right before an election?
He gave them a huge win in an election year (just like the Republicans did in the midterms), and their thanks was a 'flag-waving party. Biden and the dems will stay grateful to Johnson for renigging on his promise to demand border security first. He caved quicker than anyone could have possibly imagined.
He took away a huge election issue for the Republicans with his total capitulation--as he could have let Biden and the democrats explain why they placed money for Ukraine ahead of our national security.
He now has ZERO leverage for any legislation.
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