Posted on 04/06/2024 2:49:34 AM PDT by Sam77
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good is pleading with Speaker Mike Johnson for help in fending off a primary challenger backed by Good's colleagues. Wow. That's embarrassing.
Virginia Republican Bob Good is a second-term Congressman who was elected Freedom Caucus chairman in January 2024. He's facing a very tough primary challenge from state Senator John McGuire of Goochland County. Some of Good's colleagues, miffed by his role in the defenestration of Kevin McCarthy, are campaigning in Good's district for his opponent.
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you reap what you sow. i hardly see how we are appreciably better after the deposing of McCarthy. so all those who foisted that on us all will be accountable.
total clown show, I sometimes wonder how Trump will be able to clean house if he gets elected when its so infested, everyone is compromised
We’ve long known that the democrats are the evil party, and that the Republicans are the stupid party.
Politics is a nasty profession that is chock full of temptations & opportunities to fall into the lure of corruption. It appears that Mike Johnson was not as clean as his carefully crafted mask portrayed. But then these things are never visible until they are tested.
I mean really, name anyone other than the Freedom Caucus who even attempts to rehabilitate the way Congress operates.
BTW, they are a reflection of the vast majority of we the people. In other words, the people use get what they deserve with their elected officials, because the people are compromised also, just in varying different degrees.
Moreover, like an unhinged ex who was jilted, McCarthy is now on a mission of personal spite and revenge with no larger purpose than to create turmoil. McCarthy was an incompetent Speaker, foolishly daring Matt Gaetz to file a motion to vacate, which McCarty lost because he did not know how to count votes. A petty and shallow man, McCarthy ought to have had the sense to conciliate Gaetz and his band of allies instead of provoking them.
We have seen this sort of conduct many times among weak Republican leaders. They make deals with and accommodate Democrats but are bitter foes of Republicans who are not slavishly loyal to them. McCarthy would still be Speaker if he had fought the Democrats as hard as he is now fighting his fellow Republicans.
Look at it from a WWII perspective:
If an enemy soldier in uniform was taken prisoner on the battlefield, he was afforded the right to stay in a POW camp until the war was concluded.
But if an enemy spy that infiltrated the civilian population was caught, they were executed. There is nothing more insidious than a person who betrays you and your country while pretending to be loyal to your cause.
Democrats are like enemy soldiers, while it is the RINOs who are the spies.
The republican party looks like the stupid party because the RINOs are working from the inside to take it down.
When the CINOs vehemently refused to back Jim Jordan for Speaker, the Republicans went for the compromise - Johnson.
Johnson is better than McCarthy, who wouldn’t even demand the Speaker’s office back from Nanzi Pelousy, but Johnson doesn’t have the backbone of Jordan.
The bottom line is, as always, Republican does not equal conservative.
Johnson did two things immediately that I loved. He threw Nancy Pelosi out of the speaker’s office, which she thought she owned, and released the j6 tapes.
The j6 tapes proved how incompetent McCarthy was, since it showed how innocent the people were- yet he refused to release them.
Give Johnson a break.
He is doing the best he can with his “SUPER MAJORITY”. /S
McCarthy was a TURNCOAT!
McCarthy was the “roommate” of Frank Luntz (bad “rug” Frank)
Sadly, a spot-on analogy.
We are certainly better with McCarthy out of office.
Johnson must certainly won’t be doing the best he can if he pushes more money through for the failed proxy war in Ukraine after promising not to unless legislation was passed to secure the border.
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