Posted on 04/21/2024 5:32:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday said House Speaker Mike Johnson “betrayed” Republican voters after the House approved new aid to Ukraine, threatening to call a vote for his ouster if he doesn’t resign.
“Mike Johnson’s speakership is over. He needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesn’t do so, he will be vacated,” Greene said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
After months of resisting putting a foreign aid bill on the House floor, Johnson joined with Democrats on Saturday to advance a $95 billion foreign aid package, which contains $61 billion for Ukraine and regional partners. The legislation – which passed with the support of 210 Democrats and 101 Republicans – now heads to the Senate, which is expected to give final approval this week.
Should Greene and her supporters make good on their threat to force a vote on ousting him as speaker, Johnson will almost certainly need to rely on Democrats to bail him out.
The Georgia hardliner is one of at least three Republicans who have said they will support a move to oust Johnson — whose majority is so slim he cannot afford to lose any Republicans on a party-line vote.
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That’s a flimsy excuse, he should have forced them to do it, and see if they even could. We need people who block the wheels of government at times, not grease them, especially when you’re Speaker and don’t even have a majority of your own party in support.
Only way Greene can get Johnson ousted is if she gets considerable help from the Democrats.
“I want to see the Democrats in the House “save” a Republican Speaker.”
Do you want to see Greene and a very few other Republicans work with the Democrats to oust Johnson?
I never really liked him, but McCarty was doing a bang up job compared to Johnson. He had the individual bills lined up to finally do away with the Omnibus, which should have been the #1 focus of this House. The last spending bill this House has seen that contained spending cuts is the bill he got ousted over.
Johnson is going to work with Democrats to remove the vacate rule before we know it if left in there.
The word it's is a contraction of it is.
Congress is filled with duplicitous @ssholes who play that same “I voted for it before I voted against it” charade that John Kerry made famous in 2004.
Just look at the numbers you posted. Only 102 House Republicans voted for the Ukraine/corporate welfare bill … and yet 151 voted last week in favor of the procedural move to bring it to a floor vote.
You can take this to the bank … there are 49 Republicans out there who are going to be campaigning next fall on their “opposition” to the Ukraine/corporate welfare bill even though they did everything they needed to do to have it pass while they watched from the sideline.
McCarthy was good at talking. But he was never serious at fulfilling his obligations. He knew how to play the “game”.
McCarthy was a snake who was in it for himself. The very fact that he left before his term was up shows he was a lowlife coward. I don’t think Johnson is an improvement other than the fact that he was stupid enough to get outsmarted by the Dems and lobbiests.
I do know when you go into battle you have to have a plan to win, and just ousting a speaker is not a plan. If we are just going to run on emotions we are turning into liberals.
That’s not definitive proof of how they were going to vote, it could very well mean they wanted to have thevvote to move forward Johnson’s removal, by proving his betrayal, and knew the Senate bill for Ukraine funding was going to be forced in the House eventually anyway. Bottom line there’s no way to know other than the actual votes.
I agree with that which is mainly why I was opposed to Gaetz at the time. But MTG is trying to line that up, we just have to be quick before Johnson gets Democrats to help him remove the vacate rule.
No offense, but these political parties — especially the GOP — rely on this kind of naïveté for their existence.
The last time I had a conversation like this on FR was in 2010, when I boldly predicted that ObamaCare would never be repealed even if the Republican Party controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. The dude who scornfully rebuked me pointed to the party’s unanimous opposition to ObamaCare to support his view that I was an idiot. Maybe it was you? LOL.
Well, it’s 2024 … and the Republican Party doesn’t even talk about ObamaCare anymore.
As I said, there’s no way to know for sure. The vote was a complete disgrace is all that really matters, as Johnson went back on his 20+ times he promised not to bring it to the floor without it being tied to US border funding.
As for Obamacare, it is locked in because almost all Republicans now, in addition to all Democrats, want more government power. What will they want to take over next? Probably gas distribution. True conservatism and limited government barely breathes anymore.
How would having the entire House nothing but democrats be any different than what we have now?
This isn’t an issue of big government vs. limited government. Big government always wins because most voters are ignorant and delusional enough to want it.
It started with Matt Gaetz ..thanks to this scum …the Republican Congress is in shambles.
Lunatic supporting CCP and KGB can’t count votes and doesn’t understand how congress works
Tacitus: “This is an unfair thing about war: victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone.”
That's what you and I would have done, but I believe the result would have been the same. Maybe Johnson was afraid his Louisiana voters would turn on him for losing Ukraine. We can all see how dems and RINOs take advantage of each crisis. Biden needs Ukraine to be on the verge of losing until he calls for Build Back Better over there, if he is still in office.
The poster is the reason the Uni Party Rinos are winning. They know people will gripe for a while but still vote for them.
How can anyone be a member of the Republican Party? I left it years ago and almost daily I’m given vindication in that decision.
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