Is the Republican Speakership Cursed? Johnson Is About to Find Out.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — Republicans didn’t have a speaker for 40 years until Newt Gingrich finally reclaimed the gavel for the party in 1995 after decades in the wilderness. But hanging on to it has proved extremely challenging for Republicans in the years since — a potential object lesson for incoming Speaker Mike Johnson.

From Newt Gingrich to John Boehner to Kevin McCarthy and points in between, Republican speakers and speaker candidates have encountered significant turbulence from their own colleagues. The result has been internal revolts of the sort that led to Johnson’s ascent from practically nowhere to the highest office in Congress on Wednesday.

Some Republicans worry history will repeat itself with a similar result should Johnson run afoul of some element of the rank and file, an outcome they would like to avoid at all costs considering the abject chaos of recent weeks. Republicans have shown a clear tendency to dump the person at the top when it becomes expedient, much more so than Democrats, and lawmakers hope the habit has not become too ingrained.

“We’ve got a history of displacing speakers now that in my opinion is a cultural challenge that we need to address,” said Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-speakership-cursed-johnson-120511778.html

[MOMFUDSKI]

1. Not the speakership but

the bozos in the position.

[Attilatheblond]

2. Not too many elected Republicans know government or want it to function. Bozos, all

Seems they are just paid employees of fat cats and corporate giants. No actual knowledge of process needed because the voting base of GOP is willfully ignorant and/or openly antagonistic to the very idea of a government of people, some of whom are different from them.

That, and the emergence of Right Wing Hate Radio decades ago, particularly common in rural areas, have pretty much pounded the American Oligarchs' propaganda into a lot of heads. Now, it has become generational as we see education being constantly sabotaged. Dumbing down RW generations serves those who rely on ignorance of a huge chunk of the population to keep usurping actual law, order, and freedom in our nation.

Oh yeah, and Newt's a horrible little man who has never walked his talk. Divorced a dying wife, failed to pay court ordered alimony to the point that were it not for members of her church helping her, she would have lived her last months without electricity and heat. Newt never cares who he hurts, so long as he gets goodies.

[patricia92243]

3. What did they do in the past before they had a speaker. How did they get laws passed?

They should go back to that.