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Dulcinea

(6,692 posts)
Wed Dec 6, 2023, 08:55 AM Dec 2023

Of Course House Republicans Are Already Souring on Speaker Mike Johnson

If House Republicans were forced to vote today on who should lead them, it’s widely accepted on Capitol Hill that Mike Johnson would find it tough to keep his unenviable job as House Speaker. Put simply: the honeymoon is over, the troublemakers who made his promotion possible are losing patience, and the GOP caucus remains as ungovernable as ever.

All of which adds up to this tough truth: a partial government shutdown could be triggered on Jan. 19, with a complete collapse looming on Feb. 2. And the people who made Johnson’s speakership possible are rooting for House Republicans to preside over a total meltdown of government. It might be the natural conclusion of a right-wing movement kindled in the first months after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 and which reached a roar during a deadly riot in the last weeks of the Trump administration, and now finds itself with little to do but cheer on destruction in the Biden era.

https://news.yahoo.com/course-house-republicans-already-souring-214644486.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00

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Of Course House Republicans Are Already Souring on Speaker Mike Johnson (Original Post) Dulcinea Dec 2023 OP
Actually............................ Lovie777 Dec 2023 #1
Did anyone expect less?! InAbLuEsTaTe Dec 2023 #2
Burn down the country yankee87 Dec 2023 #3
We were way out ahead of them on that. n/t Harker Dec 2023 #4
The slightest concession to governance will not be tolerated Zambero Dec 2023 #5

Lovie777

(12,407 posts)
1. Actually............................
Wed Dec 6, 2023, 09:03 AM
Dec 2023

the GQP congresscritters are looking over their shoulders out of "fear". The GQP constant fear-mongering is coming to roost.

Zambero

(8,981 posts)
5. The slightest concession to governance will not be tolerated
Thu Dec 7, 2023, 10:41 AM
Dec 2023

Anything less than a complete government shutdown is unacceptable.
This latest new guy Johnson is certainly on a "winning" streak these days!

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