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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpeaker Johnson: We Were Counting on Democrat to Be In Emergency Surgery During Impeachment Vote
Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans were shocked as their impeachment resolution against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas went down in flames on Tuesday by a vote of 214-216. Republicans Ken Buck, Tom McClintock, Blake Moore, and Mike Gallagher voted against the measure. Moore changed his vote to a 'no' at the last second for procedural reasons, after Democratic Rep. Al Green arrived straight from the hospital in a wheelchair and scrubs to make what would be the deciding vote.
Johnson and House Republicans were infuriated by Green's presence at the vote, and apparently had not counted on this possibility. In fact, the vote was planned with Green's absence in mind. Speaker Johnson planned the vote for Tuesday because he thought the Democrats would be down a vote while Green was in surgery.
In other words, Johnson, in the most ghoulish way imaginable, tried to exploit a member of Congress's emergency surgery in order to pull a political stunt in the House of Representatives. As Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko put it, "What he really said 'We tried to cheat but we were caught.'"
Link to tweet
Rep. Green had suffered "excruciating pain" on Friday and was ordered into emergency surgery and requested to leave the hospital in order to cast his vote on Tuesday. He had to sign forms prior to leaving the hospital giving "acknowledgement that [he] understood that there could be some consequences." Green was then monitored by the House physician office.
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/speaker-johnson-we-were-counting-on-democrat-to-be-in-emergency-surgery-during-impeachment-vote
Think. Again.
(8,622 posts)agingdem
(7,870 posts)thought it was a swell idea to name brainless twit MAGA "In-dick-table" Marge impeachment floor manager...worked out well, dontcha think???
Traildogbob
(8,861 posts)BuyBull has been leading him astray, or is it his Direct discussions with Gawd?
MOMFUDSKI
(5,751 posts)He is getting his ass kicked repeatedly.
bluesbassman
(19,383 posts)It is extremely kickable.
JoseBalow
(2,554 posts)Case in point, his unpunched face
Zambero
(8,978 posts)Ryan outdid Boehner. McCarthy outdid Ryan. And now Johnson is making McCarthy (in the words of Rick Wilson) look like he knew what he was doing.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)BOSSHOG
(37,138 posts)Saying how someone should be held accountable. Johnson, a spineless eunuch committing treason by taking orders from a serial lying moral degenerate.
republianmushroom
(13,785 posts)We do now know who the mice and rats are and who the real men are.
Zambero
(8,978 posts)And 3+ years on, the Big Lie persists, as does the inability of the GOP to forge any semblance of meaningful legislation. But let's put all that aside. The time is right to piss and moan over a "spoiler" congressman who decided to put his country ahead of his own well-being.
central scrutinizer
(11,665 posts)Permanut
(5,671 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,823 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,229 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,426 posts)Began with Caesar Rodney, in the Continental Congress. John McCain's vote against Trump.
Walleye
(31,111 posts)hatrack
(59,596 posts)rubbersole
(6,747 posts)grumpyduck
(6,276 posts)You can make all the assumptions you want, but keep in mind that nobody is obligated to live up to them.
It usually goes over like a lead balloon. So I'll keep saying it.
TheBlackAdder
(28,239 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,771 posts)Takket
(21,661 posts)What an absolute SCUMBAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cha
(297,910 posts)SunSeeker
(51,777 posts)Cha
(297,910 posts)up and admits what a Freaking Ghoul he is.. like that's the best excuse for his FAILURE!!
Baitball Blogger
(46,775 posts)niyad
(113,714 posts)scum imaginable, but they tried to hide beneath a VERY thin veneer of humanness. Now, courtesy of their god-king orange jesus saviour lord and master, they feel compelled to be completely, openly, freakish and disgusting and hate-filled, murdering monsters.
orangecrush
(19,657 posts)We owe him a debt of gratitude.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,526 posts)Prairie Gates
(1,081 posts)But to then admit it in public?
Ooof. Francis Underwood he's not.
calimary
(81,558 posts)They are both very little, and learning to count. And theyre already doing it correctly.
Cha
(297,910 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,657 posts)It's as though it's pouring out of every cell in his body. (Let alone what's coming out of his mouth.)
Pure slime.
Nothing 'Christian' about that man.
Deuxcents
(16,395 posts)wryter2000
(46,122 posts)Hes praying for Greens death. Or was that preying?
liberal N proud
(60,349 posts)BootinUp
(47,207 posts)wryter2000
(46,122 posts)Another Republican ruined by being speaker. Let the curse continue.
AllaN01Bear
(18,634 posts)ps , id get banned for what i really want to say but i love this guy, wheel chair and hospital robe . ohm myyy
. messed them up totaly . love it.
sinkingfeeling
(51,485 posts)Turbineguy
(37,387 posts)I was in the hospital for over a week. And it took three more weeks at home to recover. Al Green is a tough guy.
ShazzieB
(16,590 posts)I read that it was "emergency abdominal surgery," which sounds pretty darned serious.
TeamProg
(6,326 posts)DFW
(54,465 posts)Ii they do everything in their power to prevent ordinary citizens from voting if they MIGHT be Democrats, no one should be surprised if they do what they can to prevent other members of Congress from voting when they KNOW that they are Democrats.
Blue Owl
(50,539 posts)Not just Donald tRump, but the ENTIRE GOP are a bunch of sick fucks.
Sick, fucking fucks
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czarjak
(11,310 posts)Pick up a Bible and read it. Like you said.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,601 posts)The next time they'll post one of their interns next to the Democrat's hospital bed (or worse still, in the operating room) to make sure their fiendish plot can be accomplished.
If nothing else illustrates Mike Johnson's unsuitability for the job, this unsavory act proves it.
Harker
(14,067 posts)At every level, and in any way possible.
dai13sy
(344 posts)The Republicans have done nothing but FAIL since he showed up. GOOD!!
oldinmtdem92
(47 posts)slimy pos and this guy is a bible smaker whoa! right what a dildo .
quakerboy
(13,923 posts)I really dont care for X and dont enjoy being tricked into supporting it.
BumRushDaShow
(129,809 posts)but that didn't cross their minds because they don't feel they need a "Plan B".
FelineOverlord
(3,603 posts)I remember when the Republicans dragged John McCain out of his hospital bed and he voted NO to killing millions of Americans.
Mitch McConnell burst into tears.
That was amazing.
twodogsbarking
(9,863 posts)Marcuse
(7,545 posts)drmeow
(5,032 posts)any time you have someone in government say that someone showed up to vote who the were not expected to show up to vote is a problem, you KNOW that person does not actually believe in democracy in any way, shape, or form.