Tag: Speaker Mike Johnson
Johnson’s Beyond Savin’
Democrats say that House Speaker Mike Johnson
On Tuesday should have stayed in Washington.
Instead, to NYC he humped,
To show his fealty to Trump.
Next motion to vacate, Dems say, calls for a “utilitarian calculation.”
Dems Give Johnson a Reprieve
359 to 43
The House resoundingly defeated a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, Punchbowl News reports. The vote was 359 to 43. Eleven Republicans voted against tabling the resolution, effectively voting to oust Johnson. Seven lawmakers voted present.
Saving Johnson’s Bacon
She’s a one-woman hit squad, is Mad Marge Greene,
And her plan for Mike Johnson is nasty and mean.
But she’ll be disappointed
When the votes are all counted
And she finds that she’s lost to the Dems and Hakeem.
Jeffries Taunts Greene Over Johnson Vote
“Fresh bait always finds a fish. Jeffries throwing that out there, it’s chum in the water. Everyone knows what he did.”
— A senior GOP official, quoted by Politico, on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) riling Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) by offering to save Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from a motion to vacate.
Defiant Johnson Refuses to Resign
“I am not resigning. And it is, in my view, an absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion when we are simply here trying to do our jobs. It is not helpful to the cause, it is not helpful to the country, it does not help the House Republicans advance our agenda, which is in the best interest of the American people here — a secure border, sound governance – and it’s not helpful to the unity that we have in the body.”
— Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) on the “resign or be fired” ultimatum from the GOP’s Freedom Caucus just 174 days into his tenure as sp[eaker, reported by Punchbowl News.
House GOP Unhappy with Speaker Johnson’s Preachifying During Leadership Retreat
Boredbat.com: Members of House Republican leadership expressed frustration at Speaker Mike Johnson after a GOP leadership retreat over the weekend, organized to outline plans for keeping the majority, quickly turned into a religious service.
“I’m not at church,” an anonymous attendee said in response to Johnson leading the group in prayers and Christian sermonizing. According to two people in the room the sermon was not well received, with one Rep. calling the session “horrible.”
Johnson was reportedly railing against government, saying that without God in their lives people will turn to the government for guidance. The sermon lasted for a full third of the meeting according to the anonymous members.
“I think what he was trying to do, but failed on the execution of it, was try to bring us together,” the anonymous source said. “The sermon was so long he couldn’t bring it back to make the point.”
