Rough road for Johnson

[Mik]

I'm torn on this. On one hand, the GOP does NOT want to be seen forcing shutdowns in an election year. We already look in ways unable to govern. On the other hand, I'd like to see a lot more cuts. I like Davidson - He's Ohio 8, Boehner's district and right next to me, but I'm not sure I like this. Another speaker ouster would kill the party for 2024.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-storms-out-of-mike-johnson-meeting/ar-AA1mLl3H?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=780d34a5f51148d0befe76ba0672e632&ei=12

[George K]

@Mik said in Rough road for Johnson:

Another speaker ouster would kill the party for 2024.

I long for the days when the Democrats were the stupid party and the GOP was the evil party.

[Mik]

Persuasion > browbeating.

[Renauda]

There appears to be a faction in the GOP that wants not only its voice heard but to be obeyed as well.

[Copper]

Obedience has always been an important commitment in any political party.

[89th]

@Renauda said in Rough road for Johnson:

There appears to be a faction in the GOP that wants not only its voice heard but to be obeyed as well.

And a former President who denied his election loss with a lawyer arguing a sitting president can kill his political opponent as long as he resigns before he’s impeached.

[George K]

@89th said in Rough road for Johnson:

a lawyer arguing a sitting president can kill his political opponent

His lawyer didn't say that. It was the prosecution's lawyer saying that as a hypothetical.

[89th]

To which the lawyer said he’d only get in trouble for it if Congress impeached him

[Renauda]

They say or at least, I am told, that obedience is always an important commitment in any political party. I am sure they - in this case the snarky GOP factionalists - would know this indisputable fact.

[Copper]

Insults, always with the insults.

Weak.

[Renauda]

Snark, always with the same old unimaginative snark.

Trite.

[jon-nyc]

Johnson seems to have told the right fringe to eat shit.

[Mik]

I think he senses the mood of the country. We’d like to see more government, less bullshit squabbles.