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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMSNBC reporting that Margie has filed a motion to vacate MAGAMike's chair
Hahahahahahahaha
Keep tossing those grenades, Goopers.
JohnSJ
(92,219 posts)drray23
(7,633 posts)and get to the floor no matter what.
JohnSJ
(92,219 posts)MAGA group wants along with attention
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)It goes with MagaMike.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)niyad
(113,344 posts)KPN
(15,646 posts)him at the top of the Empire State Building! She thinks she's Queen Kong, but she's just fucking nuts!
Ray Bruns
(4,098 posts)riversedge
(70,242 posts)llmart
(15,540 posts)I'd stay away from her.
no_hypocrisy
(46,122 posts)Attilatheblond
(2,190 posts)she hasn't been Page One this week so she could just be looking for attention.
MagickMuffin
(15,943 posts)Looking forward to the newest shitcarnival. Im betting itll be as well run machine as the last time and the time before that.
617Blue
(1,279 posts)Most people do not pay rapt attention to the day to day political tides ebbing and flowing on a day to day basis. They are busy living their lives, working going to school raising children's etc..
But the daily drama coming out of the House GOP is breaking thru and it will hurt the party in Nov.
I hope it hurts republicans in November!
617Blue
(1,279 posts)criticizing the GOP for being incompetent and incapable of governing.
The House GOP is an embarrassment.
cab67
(2,993 posts)They want to rule.
617Blue
(1,279 posts)Each succession of GOP leadership, Newt, Boehner, Ryan, McCarthy etc...is less competent than the previous.
cab67
(2,993 posts)...they were capable of ruling. Or of governing.
Roevember..
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Voters want to see results coming from the House. There has been none and the Democrats will message that.
JohnSJ
(92,219 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)The people who vote for these assholes want exactly what she is doing. The want to burn it all down. I can only imagine what it must be like to live in a district where the majority of people want this and vote for people like her.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(1,199 posts)One of my Senators sends traitorous letters to Iran while my district's Rep is a MAGAt. The other senator hasn't done a damned thing as far as I can tell.
Takket
(21,577 posts)Because absolutely NOTHING about that helps the rethugs in any way. A motion to vacate only helps the Dems. Lol
What a fucking idiot. Go for it. Ill say this again: it isnt up to Democrats to save gop officials. Their job is to represent their voters who want democratic leadership. Aka Jeffries.
Model35mech
(1,540 posts)Mikey wasn't radical enough to satisfy maga-tailored Greene
Johnson caved in on the idea of supporting Ukraine only after a very radical border bill was passed.
AllyCat
(16,189 posts)Idiots. Complete lunatics with no ability to govern. Their constituents are getting a raw deal and the entire country pays for their circus antics.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)Volaris
(10,272 posts)MadameButterfly
(1,062 posts)and elect someone who will bring the vote to the floor? The guy Trump said no to, maybe, I'm forgetting his name.
They only need 2 or 3 Republicans, right?
Of course finding that many Republicans who care more about Ukraine than what Trump will do to them may be hard.
Alhena
(3,030 posts)Emmer just quit once Trump said he wasn't his guy. I'm sure he would have likely gotten a lot of Dem votes if he had pushed for a vote on the floor.
MadameButterfly
(1,062 posts)though I understand the odds. But with Republicans quitting out of frustration, one would hope someone would take action against what is frustrating them
Ping Tung
(580 posts)Last edited Fri Mar 22, 2024, 01:08 PM - Edit history (1)
All 12 of them wearing Golden Sneakers and working against each other.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)She just can't let a day go by without be a headline! That woman needs some serious therapy.
flying_wahini
(6,606 posts)all Americans will be aghast at their foolery on display.
Does she want the job herself? Or is it all for Matt?
Is she just trying to get the Vice President nomination?
Or save herself by throwing herself on her sword?
No real answers yet, but hang on to your hat.
Deep end here we come.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)He just is a tiny bit more subtle about it right now.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,355 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)Warpy
(111,277 posts)I'm just a little suprised Moscow Marge filed the motion. She probably thinks she can get his job now.
At this point, I don't care who gets him out. There will be a government shutdown in all probability while the Peabran Caucus dithers and Republicans outside it fume. They're all still afraid of TFG and his fan club, so I'm not expecting the next Speaker to be a sensible one, not unless there are enough brave Republicans to give Jeffries the job.
I knew this was going to be a Klown Kongress, but it has so far vastly exceeded my expectations.
GreenWave
(6,759 posts)Attilatheblond
(2,190 posts)Or is Empty G just trying to block that from happening. I could see her thinking that might get her more $upport from the idiots in those Made In China red hats.
Initech
(100,081 posts)Fuck you Fox News for foisting this nightmare on us! I hope Sean Hannity sleeps easier at night knowing he's causing the chaos and corruption in the House.
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)JustTooMuch
(14 posts)If the seat is vacated doesnt it take just a majority to elect the new speaker of the house. Are we that close to a Speaker Jeffries?
poli-junkie
(1,002 posts)aka another media squirrel, while Trump gets the $454 million from foreign autocrats?
The timing is suspect to me.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,901 posts)appear and shame them all? Will Vlad the Impaler reach across the sea and deliver a new speaker? Will Donald the Maganifiscent declare an outsider to the post
Stay tuned to your wireless sets while the GOP turns back time to the golden days when Men were mute, Women were under restraint, and no-one asked questions of The Powers That Be.
AverageOldGuy
(1,530 posts). . . if Ukrainian civilians and soldiers were not dying because the Republican Party is now the party of traitors, thieves, MAGAts, and other pieces of shit.
OMGWTF
(3,959 posts)Raven123
(4,849 posts)honest.abe
(8,678 posts)I suspect there was a deal otherwise Johnson would not have gone forward with the vote.
Oopsie Daisy
(2,636 posts)* how long will it be before they can act on it or take a vote?
And,
RainCaster
(10,884 posts)They are so hell-bent on destroying themselves. It's popcorn time!
JoseBalow
(2,393 posts)What a shit-show
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)Link to tweet
This Republican civil war is getting ugly fast...
"Its not only idiotic, but it actually does not do anything to advance the conservative movement. And in fact, it undermines the country, and our majority," said Republican Representative Mike Lawler, a so-called "moderate" who might lose his seat in New York next election.
Far-right Representative Clay Higgins said Greene's push to remove Johnson risked losing the only leader capable of leading them "through these very dark and challenging times.
I consider Marjorie Taylor Greene to be my friend. Shes still my friend. But she just made a big mistake," Higgins wrote on Twitter (X). "To think that one of our Republican colleagues would call for his ouster right now its really, its abhorrent to me and I oppose it."
Green claims that her motion to vacate stems from his anger over the $1.2 trillion spending bill that the Republican-controlled house just passed, but as usually the likeliest explanation is that she wants attention.
Emile
(22,789 posts)the Republicans have a huge majority.
D23MIURG23
(2,850 posts)Dems get a vote on Funding, Johnson gets to survive Moron Traitor Goon's latest episode.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)House Republicans were already a divided and dysfunctional mess. Then Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/marjorie-taylor-greene-files-motion-oust-speaker-mike-johnson-rcna144669
Im not saying that it wont happen in two weeks or it wont happen in a month or who knows when," Greene told reporters. "But I am saying the clock has started. Its time for our conference to choose a new speaker."
As for whether Johnson might ultimately meet McCarthys fate, theres an enormous amount of uncertainty. Given the tiny GOP majority in the chamber, if Democrats were to vote against Johnson, as they did with McCarthy, it would only take a small handful of Republicans to kick the House speaker out of his office.
Its not difficult to imagine those votes materializing especially given the ferocity of the House Freedom Caucus criticisms of Johnson but whether Democrats intend go along with such an effort remains an open question.
While the fight takes shape, lets not miss the forest for the trees. Resignations in the GOP-led chamber have reached a generational high. Legislative progress has slowed to a pace unseen in nearly a century. Lawmakers are struggling mightily to complete basic tasks. Johnson organized a retreat focused on unifying his conference, and most of his members didnt show up. A recent Punchbowl News report concluded, This is the most chaotic, inefficient and ineffective majority weve seen in decades covering Congress.
Its against this backdrop that one of the Houses most notorious extremists has launched an effort to oust her partys speaker six months after other radical GOP members successfully ousted his predecessor.
I wrote a book a few years ago about Republicans abandoning their role as a governing party. Its good to see so many GOP officials take steps to prove the thesis true.