[Mike Johnson is the new Speaker] The Great Speaker Race

[acptulsa]

Unfortunately, it's the South of this country that is most susceptible to the lies of Zionism, and they lap it up, lacking discernment and wisdom.

LOL

Who laps what up?

You could stand to work on your own discernment and wisdom, if you're still buying that moldy old divide and conquer tactic.

 

[Snowball]

LOL

Who laps what up?

You could stand to work on your own discernment and wisdom, if you're still buying that moldy old divide and conquer tactic.

You didn't know the South is the base of Christian Zionism? That includes the Southern Midwest.
Not sure what this has to do with "moldy old divide and conquer tactic" that I "buy". Weird.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1749454121508163964
[article: Dems float a trade: Ukraine-border deal for protecting Johnson]

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/MilaLovesJoe/status/1716183373113368661

Byron Donalds is the only "RINO" on that list. [1]

Until enough of the people who support the Republican party - but who also complain about those others being "RINOs" - finally figure that out, nothing is going to change. They're just going to keep getting screwed over by the real Republicans.



[1] For the reasons explained here and here.

To put it another way: the 15% figure specified by the author of the following tweet posted by AF are the "RINOs" (i.e., Republicans "in name only").

https://twitter.com/JoeyMannarinoUS/status/1715141573535502624

The other 85% are the real Republicans.

[...]

https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1753212719933583710

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1755202140325183786

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/USAB4L/status/1755290786915139608

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/USAB4L/status/1755306260667199540

 

[familydog]

https://twitter.com/USAB4L/status/1755306260667199540

Johnson, at worst, is the same is what we had before. Despite Massie's constant gaslighting and hysterics over his best bro McCarthy, not much has changed. But hey, the precedent has been set. Perhaps we can keep removing Speakers indefinitely.

 

[nobody's_hero]

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1755202140325183786

How I wish Massie would express his discontent with Johnson, without appearing to defend McCarthy. It's not winning him any favors from the establishment, and it's only serving to piss off the grassroots (almost nobody outside of D.C. liked McCarthy).

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Johnson, at worst, is the same is what we had before. Despite Massie's constant gaslighting and hysterics over his best bro McCarthy, not much has changed. But hey, the precedent has been set. Perhaps we can keep removing Speakers indefinitely.

How I wish Massie would express his discontent with Johnson, without appearing to defend McCarthy. It's not winning him any favors from the establishment, and it's only serving to piss off the grassroots (almost nobody outside of D.C. liked McCarthy).

Interestingly enough, on Steve Bannon's show, where they love to hate Massie, they were expressing the same concerns about Speaker Johnson. As Massie (and Bannon) are saying, Johnson has abandoned work on the separate appropriations bills, such that he will run up against another hard funding deadline in a month or so. The question will be, what will pass at that point? A short term CR? A long term CR? A brand new omnibus loaded to the gills with everyone's wish list and more?

A long term CR is our best hope, thanks to Massie getting a built-in, real spending cut if they go that route. The Democrats would rather shut-down government though, so they will push Johnson to do a new "bipartisan" Omnibus. The Democrats are already promising Johnson that they will protect him from the GOP is he sides with them.

No doubt Schumer, McConnell and Jeffries have sufficiently sidetracked Johnson with other issues, including Johnson's favorite issue, Israel. Johnson is not up to the task.

 

[nobody's_hero]

Johnson is not up to the task.

Indeed, he is not. Perhaps someone will make a motion to vacate.

I rather enjoyed having no speaker while it lasted.

 

[vita3]

Amateur hour by Republicans, removing McCarthy without having better alternative in place.

 

[familydog]

Interestingly enough, on Steve Bannon's show, where they love to hate Massie, they were expressing the same concerns about Speaker Johnson. As Massie (and Bannon) are saying, Johnson has abandoned work on the separate appropriations bills, such that he will run up against another hard funding deadline in a month or so. The question will be, what will pass at that point? A short term CR? A long term CR? A brand new omnibus loaded to the gills with everyone's wish list and more?

A long term CR is our best hope, thanks to Massie getting a built-in, real spending cut if they go that route. The Democrats would rather shut-down government though, so they will push Johnson to do a new "bipartisan" Omnibus. The Democrats are already promising Johnson that they will protect him from the GOP is he sides with them.

No doubt Schumer, McConnell and Jeffries have sufficiently sidetracked Johnson with other issues, including Johnson's favorite issue, Israel. Johnson is not up to the task.

So in other others, nothing has changed. Again, I don't see how this is any worse than we had before.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

So in other others, nothing has changed. Again, I don't see how this is any worse than we had before.

Work was occurring on the separate appropriations bills driven by McCarthy. That has stopped under Johnson.

 

[familydog]

Work was occurring on the separate appropriations bills driven by McCarthy. That has stopped under Johnson.

Just to be clear, this is your case why McCarthy was an objectively better Speaker?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Just to be clear, this is your case why McCarthy was an objectively better Speaker?

It's part of my case as to how Johnson is failing. And Massie has more of a vested interest, as he worked hard to get separate appropriations bills instead of a giant Omnibus.

 

[familydog]

It's part of my case as to how Johnson is failing. And Massie has more of a vested interest, as he worked hard to get separate appropriations bills instead of a giant Omnibus.

Oh, I completely agree that Johnson is a horrible failure. My point is that he isn't any more of a failure than the last one. The one that Massie has a bromance with.

 

[vita3]

Massie is a fiscal conservative.

That’s as rare as it gets, especially after Trump

Of course he favors a speaker he could work with.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Interestingly enough, on Steve Bannon's show, where they love to hate Massie, they were expressing the same concerns about Speaker Johnson. As Massie (and Bannon) are saying, Johnson has abandoned work on the separate appropriations bills, such that he will run up against another hard funding deadline in a month or so. The question will be, what will pass at that point? A short term CR? A long term CR? A brand new omnibus loaded to the gills with everyone's wish list and more?

A long term CR is our best hope, thanks to Massie getting a built-in, real spending cut if they go that route. The Democrats would rather shut-down government though, so they will push Johnson to do a new "bipartisan" Omnibus. The Democrats are already promising Johnson that they will protect him from the GOP is he sides with them.

No doubt Schumer, McConnell and Jeffries have sufficiently sidetracked Johnson with other issues, including Johnson's favorite issue, Israel. Johnson is not up to the task.

And today they passed another short term CR...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Speaker Johnson’s strategy to avoid a government shutdown under scrutiny by GOP colleagues

House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s move to advance a two-part continuing resolution on Thursday drew mixed reviews from GOP members who are frustrated with infighting as they stared down a partial government shutdown.

Hard-line conservatives are reserving any animosity toward Johnson, appearing to come to terms with the fact that they won’t achieve their desired one-year stopgap bill. Instead, the deadline for the first six appropriations bills will be extended until March 8, and the remaining six will be moved to March 22.

The first six appropriations bills are expected to be advanced as a package and enacted by the first date, according to congressional leaders, despite pushback from some conservatives that the bills must be voted on one by one.

Other members argued that “kicking this can down the road” doesn’t solve the problem, but they are less inclined to blame Johnson or House leaders for choosing to extend the CR — and it doesn’t appear that a motion to vacate is being discussed, the path taken to oust Kevin McCarthy when he was in a similar position.

“This is the House Republicans coming to terms with reality,” Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) said Thursday. “He is making the inevitable decision that was clear in September. It was clear in November, December, and it’s been clear for months that this is the outcome.”

When asked if the stopgap is Johnson standing up to his right flank, McHenry said the speaker is “doing what you’re supposed to do: bank the wins you can get with the power that you have.”

Johnson and GOP leaders faced several options to avoid a shutdown on Friday, with any option likely to garner opposition from conservative Republicans such as Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Chip Roy (R-TX), who are staunch adversaries to continuing resolutions.

House Freedom Caucus members and other hard-line conservatives have already expressed that the continuous passage of CRs is testing their patience. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who aligns with the GOP right flank but is no longer a member of the Freedom Caucus, said she is not voting for the CR and called the situation “really pathetic.”

“I actually think it’s really pathetic that our conference — well, eight of our Republicans and all the Democrats, threw out our speaker. We didn’t vote on another appropriation bill since October, not one. We passed two CRs.”

“Somebody came up with the idiotic idea to make two deadlines instead of one. And now we got to pass another CR,” Greene continued — knocking Johnson, who proposed the two-step CR in November.

Many Republicans are adamant that delaying the problem only creates more problems in the long run.

“Not standing up for America today so you can surrender tomorrow doesn’t advance America’s goals,” Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.
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The Freedom Caucus had pitched a yearlong stopgap spending bill with 1% spending cuts across the board if a funding agreement did not include policies such as defunding the Pentagon abortion policy or prohibiting funding for gun registries.
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More: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-strategy-government-shutdown-under-scrutiny/