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Arazi

(8,637 posts)
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 09:34 PM Nov 21

Hoping MTG files a motion to vacate the Speaker's chair before January 5th

Throw a real bomb into the house on the way out

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onenote

(45,894 posts)
13. Probably wishful thinking.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 11:16 PM
Nov 21

I don't see eight current members going up against Johnson, which would be the equivalent of siding with Taylor against Trump.

Arazi

(8,637 posts)
14. Trying to imagine someone equivalent to the malevolent ambitious Matt Gaetz
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 11:24 PM
Nov 21

But of course that person is/would have been MTG and she’s leaving so…

If she manages to scrape up 8 Rs, whose the unlucky stooge they’d find to replace Mike Johnson?

I could see her doing this just to create chaos though. Make Mikey sweat.

One other thing, after his reprehensible delay in swearing in Adelita Grijalva, I’d rest easier if some other worm with even less power were SOTH for the 2026 swearing in. If there’s shameless shenanigans to be pulled to thwart the transfer of power, Mike Johnson will do whatever he can to prevent a Dem majority House

SSJVegeta

(2,090 posts)
9. I wouldnt actually hate the idea ofnher being speaker under a power sharing agreement backed by Massie and the Democrats
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 10:24 PM
Nov 21

...and one more brave republican. Lol

onenote

(45,894 posts)
11. They changed the rule so that it takes 9 members of the majority to force a vote on the speakership.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 10:54 PM
Nov 21

After the Kevin McCarthy chaos, they revised the rule to require at least nine members of the majority to bring a motion to vacate the speakership.

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C Moon

(13,366 posts)
15. Remember this...
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 11:31 PM
Nov 21

During President Biden's State of the Union.
She's bad news. I'm glad to see her go. She's no hero.

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