Thursday, May 02, 2024 11:03:53 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Gunning for Mike Johnson
She announced plans to call a vote to oust the Speaker of the House next week.
By Charles P. Pierce PUBLISHED: MAY 01, 2024 2:19 PM EDT
reps greene and massie press conference on house speakership
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“The beauty parlor is full of sailors / The circus is in town.” — Bob Dylan
You didn’t think she was going away quietly, did you? From The Washington Post:
Standing alongside Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who also supports removing Johnson, Greene announced during a morning news conference that she is formally bringing up her motion next week. She intends to act under special rules forcing the House to vote on the motion within two full legislative days.
Republican leadership will then decide when to bring up the vote once Greene triggers it. “Mike Johnson is not capable of that job. He has proven it over and over again,” Greene said, adding that she wants to see lawmakers vote on the record. “Now we have [Democratic leader] Hakeem Jeffries coming out over and over again, embracing Mike Johnson with a warm hug and a big wet sloppy kiss.…They want to keep the band together.
“Everybody needs a weekend to prepare. I’m not irresponsible. I care about my conference. I have been measured. I have given this time. I have been giving warning after warning,” Greene said. “It was a warning to stop serving the Democrats and support our Republican conference and support our agenda. And [Johnson] didn’t do it.”
Of course, Johnson and the rest of the Republican squishes had to know this was coming. Greene has no skills applicable to the job of making the laws, or any apparent desire to acquire them. Now, we know that minority leader Hakeem Jeffries has committed the Democratic caucus to the defense of Speaker Moses.
Jeffries has said the Democrats will vote to table Greene’s motion to vacate. Even more fascinating is the fact that, by next week, newly elected Rep. Tim Kennedy, Democrat of New York, is due to be sworn in, cutting Johnson’s majority to a single vote and intensifying Speaker Moses’s need to make nice with the Democrats if he wants to do anything, including remain speaker.
“Bless her heart,” Johnson said, deploying a subtle insult often used in the South. “I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about her. I’ve got to do my job, and we do the right thing and we let the chips fall where they may.” In response, Massie said that Greene is “the most serious representative up here.”
“If you listen to the speech that she just gave, she captured exactly what Republicans back home are thinking. They are tired of this swamp,” he said.
Speaker Moses, with the deft southern shiv, bless his heart. As for Massie, he knows that if Greene falls, he and the rest of the Angry Children’s Caucus are next. She’s the blunted tip of a broken spear.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a60660988/marjorie-taylor-greene-mike-johnson-vote/
She announced plans to call a vote to oust the Speaker of the House next week.
By Charles P. Pierce PUBLISHED: MAY 01, 2024 2:19 PM EDT
reps greene and massie press conference on house speakership
Bill Clark//Getty Images
“The beauty parlor is full of sailors / The circus is in town.” — Bob Dylan
You didn’t think she was going away quietly, did you? From The Washington Post:
Standing alongside Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who also supports removing Johnson, Greene announced during a morning news conference that she is formally bringing up her motion next week. She intends to act under special rules forcing the House to vote on the motion within two full legislative days.
Republican leadership will then decide when to bring up the vote once Greene triggers it. “Mike Johnson is not capable of that job. He has proven it over and over again,” Greene said, adding that she wants to see lawmakers vote on the record. “Now we have [Democratic leader] Hakeem Jeffries coming out over and over again, embracing Mike Johnson with a warm hug and a big wet sloppy kiss.…They want to keep the band together.
“Everybody needs a weekend to prepare. I’m not irresponsible. I care about my conference. I have been measured. I have given this time. I have been giving warning after warning,” Greene said. “It was a warning to stop serving the Democrats and support our Republican conference and support our agenda. And [Johnson] didn’t do it.”
Of course, Johnson and the rest of the Republican squishes had to know this was coming. Greene has no skills applicable to the job of making the laws, or any apparent desire to acquire them. Now, we know that minority leader Hakeem Jeffries has committed the Democratic caucus to the defense of Speaker Moses.
Jeffries has said the Democrats will vote to table Greene’s motion to vacate. Even more fascinating is the fact that, by next week, newly elected Rep. Tim Kennedy, Democrat of New York, is due to be sworn in, cutting Johnson’s majority to a single vote and intensifying Speaker Moses’s need to make nice with the Democrats if he wants to do anything, including remain speaker.
“Bless her heart,” Johnson said, deploying a subtle insult often used in the South. “I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about her. I’ve got to do my job, and we do the right thing and we let the chips fall where they may.” In response, Massie said that Greene is “the most serious representative up here.”
“If you listen to the speech that she just gave, she captured exactly what Republicans back home are thinking. They are tired of this swamp,” he said.
Speaker Moses, with the deft southern shiv, bless his heart. As for Massie, he knows that if Greene falls, he and the rest of the Angry Children’s Caucus are next. She’s the blunted tip of a broken spear.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a60660988/marjorie-taylor-greene-mike-johnson-vote/
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