WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, three sources with knowledge of the move told NBC News, doing so just as the House voted to avoid a government shutdown.
Johnson, R-La., has served as speaker for five months, having taken over for Kevin McCarthy who was ousted from the top job under a similar process.
I wonder how the GOP has any toes left after shooting themselves in the foot so often.
Gotta be a MTG toe joke in there somewhere.
Her inbred ass had enough extra toes to hold them over for a while.
There it is lmao
“‘n this foot right here I call Ol’ Stumpy”
“Sir, that is your exposed femur.”
“Yeah, an’ that makes it a stump! I ain’t wrong.”
“You called it your foot!”
At what point do a few Republicans not running for re-election just say “Fuck it” and vote for Hakeem Jeffries? The margin is down to what, three flips? McCarthy being so thirsty for the job that he let them change the rules has fucked them over, because Ted Cruz et al made government shutdowns and other refusals to do routine shit such a losing national issue for the GOP that once in the job, even Christian-Nationalist ideologues like Johnson have to “betray the principles” of idiots like MTG, Gaetz, and Boebert.
What principles? Oh yeah, vaping and giving handies at kids’ shows and throwing tantrums in The House while doing absolutely nothing resembling their actual jobs.
There are plenty of Blue state GOPs. I can see someone giving a speech along these lines; Things have gotten out of hand. It’s time to cooperate with the other Party. You know me, and that I am a strong Reagan Republican. Reagan worked with Tip O’Neil and we beat the Soviets.
There are plenty of Blue state GOPs.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of them (if you don’t believe me, check the Senate and the 2020 Presidential election results), but that doesn’t stop her district from being deeply blood-red-batshit-insane.
Thank Sarah Palin for the new political track. Back in the day, a losing pol could only go home or become a lobbyist. Now they can become media darlings. MGT will be flogging her wares for decades, in or out of office.
Wouldn’t really say that Beetlejuice the Musical is directed at kids but everything else is spot on. They talk about orgies and suicide in it.
Suicide orgy: You come and then you go.
Holy shit, I got to see This show!
Because of the rule change, it’s going to fuck over Dems too when they take over Speaker of the House. Reps are just going to oust every single Dem elected to the position every single day. All they need is one vote to challenge the Speaker. I really hope they nullify the rule.
I don’t think those are House rules. Those are the rules they made for themselves. Democrats don’t have to abide by this. That’s my understanding at the moment. Feel free to correct me.
Pretty sure those are house rules. I think they are agreed upon at the beginning of every session of congress. They can likely be changed with a simple majority but the handful of fucking-batshit-insane GOP don’t want to give up that power. I can’t imagine Dems just holding onto that rule when it should just be an
essayeasy vote to revert back to what it was.Thank you! I agree, I don’t think Dems would keep that rule. Which kind of makes it only for republicans. But now I understand that they are in fact House rules that would need to be changed. Thanks again bro/sis!
They do. The Constitution says that each chamber makes its own rules. Whoever is in power can do pretty much whatever they like. Usually they write sensible rules to avoid a pendulum swing each time power changes hands.
Thanks for the clarification!
The just plain wrong. When you vote for speaker you also vote the rules in. Dems will not vote for the same set of rules and likely go back to a traditional and more sane set of rules.
Thank you
An election year is a great time to blow up the only part of the government your party controls… I say let them flight.
Let them fight
Someone get the popcorn, dis gunna be good
I can’t wait for 37 more ballots of Hakeem Jeffries almost winning.
Needs exactly four Republicans House Reps to do what I could only describe as the funniest thing ever.
Retiring?
when is someone putting this screaming gibbon back in her cage?
But who will be our representative for Jewish Space Lasers?? Imagine the atrocities of such an unchecked system!!
This would have been funnier before October
Sorry, being chronically late is sort of my character flaw.
In your defense, the Jewish space lasers is still an astoundingly stupid idea. It’s just that Israel’s current right-wing government seems to have been smoking whatever it is that made Marge the way she is.
250 years from now scientist, anthropologists will figure out that it was something in the air. Something like a mushroom spore, except, instead of making us hideous and monster like on the outside, it did it on the inside. But it only affected a certain group of people henceforth referred to as the GOP and its caucus.
The infection is getting worse.
Hahahahaha!.. takes deep breath … HAHAHAHAHA! 🤣🤣🤣
They said ha ha, not hee hee.
Even better… they’re loosing their majority fast. Heard somebody else resigned and they’re down to one
Losing*
Wish someone would file a motion to oust Greene.
Her district is germandered at like +25 Republican… she’s going no where. But also, having the Republicans do a ton of party infighting during an election year is great if you don’t like them. Makes them less appealing overall to voters. Let them flight.
As someone who grew up in what is now her district during the 90s and early 00s, it is gerrymandered to hell and back but a good 85% of that area would vote for the GOP even if it gave them an instant herpes outbreak every time they cast a ballot
She’s up for reelection this year, that’s really all we can hope for.
She’s in the sheep-fucker part of Georgia. She’ll be back.
I was about to ask why she would do such a thing but then I remembered to my dismay that asking why mtg does shit is like asking a flat earther why they think the earth is flat.
There’s a difference. A flat Earther definitely thinks the Earth is flat. What Marjorie Taylor Greene actually believes is a mystery. How much of it is natural crazy and how much of it is an act?
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
I don’t think it’s an act for her
I keep posting this, but it never gets old
Ha! It’s so funny when they eat themselves alive.
Dems should make a deal with Johnson. They will throw him a few votes in exchange to allow Jeffries the ability to schedule votes. That way both parties decide what things to hold votes about.
No. Dems just need like 1 Republican to vote for Jeffries. At this point there may be enough Republicans furious with the extreme nut jobs to form a “not batshit crazy” coalition with the Dems.
How democracy should actually work. I don’t understand why they haven’t been doing this to begin with
While a lot of people are speculating about how this could lead to a Democrat speaker, I think the more likely scenario is that the Dems vote to keep him in office as long as he stops obstructing the most critical stuff, specifically Ukraine aid. Republicans alone are extremely unlikely to oust Johnson, and a failed attempt to do so only weakens the nutjobs.
MTG is practically handing the Dems the leverage they need to force Johnson to compromise. And if he won’t they need only find three moderate / retiring Republicans willing to pick a more reasonable speaker.
Gotta love the Christian nationalist infighting.
you live laugh love to see it.
Republican house speakers have the life expectancy of a house fly thanks to the treason caucus.
