Posted on 04/19/2024 9:05:53 AM PDT by River Hawk
Things aren’t looking good for House Speaker Mike Johnson. House conservatives are outraged by his commitment to fund Ukraine. They’ve already been upset with his past failures to pass any substantial right-wing legislation. At least two Republicans–Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie–support a motion to vacate against Johnson. If every Democrat votes for it, Johnson is done.
A lot of conservatives wouldn’t be bothered by this. They see Johnson as a traitor and would like him to pay for his failures. Many believe they can get an even better speaker with Johnson gone. This is the exact same kind of thinking that ousted Kevin McCarthy from the speakership last year. Conservatives were thrilled with Johnson’s elevation to the job, believing he would be far superior to his predecessor. Instead, he turned out to be more the same. A few (such as your humble author) predicted this, but were not listened to. So is politics.
However, getting rid of Johnson presents a far greater problem than the previous ouster of McCarthy. This time, it’s possible that the next House Speaker could be Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. When McCarthy was overthrown, the GOP had a small, yet multi-seat majority. Now they just have a one-seat majority. Just a few moderate Republicans—many of them openly furious with the conservative minority within the party’s shrinking majority—need to vote for Jeffries to make him Speaker.
The bigger problem is that a Jeffries-led House could pass amnesty. For all of Johnson’s faults, he made sure the terrible Senate immigration “deal” died. The fact Johnson immediately rejected it and said it wouldn’t make it in the House ruined its chances. But a new House Speaker could revive it—and Jeffries certainly would.
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Johnson believes in white privilege. Eff him.
“The Uniparty has other plans. They want to tank the entire thing, declare an ‘emergency’ before the election IF Trump isn’t convicted of something. They can’t let Trump back in, because he is going to hold people accountable.”
I think you nailed it. The acceleration of the chaos is downright scary.
I wouldn’t want to vote for the Republican candidate in my district (open seat). Hopefully, there’s a libertarian candidate. I’ll vote for that guy. Or even for the Green Party. Consider it as the protest vote. I’ll only vote for guys in the Freedom Caucus. Otherwise, they’re not worthy of my vote.
The John Lewis voting act should change your mind. That would pass day one and signed by Biden day two.
Good article.
The Dems aren’t through PLOTTING...
When FDR set up the program, average life expectancy was about 60 in the US. To get SS you had to be 65. Money poured into SS because not many people made it to benefits. That’s a fact. It was illegal to use on other programs, so the money sat there……collecting interest……getting bigger and bigger….
Until LBJ. When LBJ raided it for the grand society, he destroyed it. It was just so big, nobody noticed it at first.
I believe everything you say about the fund, especially now. All that was true, except when it started it wasn’t part of the government fund, and couldn’t be used for anything other than SS benefits. LBJ changed all that.
Jeffries is a strawman for Pelosi. She’s so unpopular the dems needed a new face, but people like Pelosi never give up power willingly. It’s just like Biden is the strawman for Barak Hussein Obama, our first muslim president.
No, they could grant amnesty to the 20-50 million illegals who are here or will claim they were here when amnesty was passed. Instant third world nation...Brazil at best. No thank you.
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