So interesting, Trump waved MTG off doing this and now there are more getting ready to sign up. More chaos from the MAGA crowd. Looks like a circular firing squad more and more
Shhhh! Never interrupt your enemy when they’re making a mistake 😉
Pass Ukraine Aid first, you traitorous moronic shitheads!
Slap Fight Melee after!
It’s been a long time coming, this has been fermenting since the GOP embraced the tea party movement. They thought they could maintain their hierarchy over the extremist in the party by handing out committee membership, and until Trump came along it was working out.
It will be interesting to see whether the old guard will pull rank, and clean out the freedom caucus from important committees, or if they are just going to throw the towel and hand the party over. Either way, it’ll be interesting, the GOPs largely remained politically capable due to their previous ability to whip the house members into compliance with the speaker.
The old guard are running for the hills (and still supporting the extremists). They handed it all over the second they bought into any part of The Big Lie or the Jan 6 excuses. The GOP dead. It’s the GQP now.
That said, they’re only “extremist” in that they can’t be bothered to not say horrible things while pursuing horrible policies. The old guard did the latter but smiled more.
“Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line”.
Well that was a fucking lie.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Speaker Mike Johnson’s weakened position inside the House GOP conference has sparked delicate internal discussions about who could potentially replace him if he can’t hang on to the job – whether it’s in this Congress or the next one, according to interviews with over a dozen Republican lawmakers and aides.
In recent days, proxies close to Emmer have also reached out to some Republicans to gauge his standing inside the conference, according to three sources, including a GOP leadership aide.
Another potential contender who sources believe could run for the top job in the next Congress: House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, who also mounted an unsuccessful bid for speaker last year.
Still, the quiet maneuvering inside the House GOP conference shows a level of uncertainty among Republicans about the long-term political future of Johnson, who unexpectedly came into the job after the unprecedented ouster of their last speaker, Kevin McCarthy.
Pressed on why it’s important for Johnson to keep his job, Emmer said: “Again, we are going to be focused on the things we have in front of us this week, we have some great bills on the floor tonight and tomorrow, we are waiting to see text on the supplemental.”
And the scars still run deep from the protracted speakership fight following McCarthy’s ousting, which exposed internal divisions and left the House paralyzed for three weeks.
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