Republican Honeymoon With Mike Johnson Is Over

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

House Speaker Mike Johnson united his often-divided Republican colleagues in a rare event last week, but the GOP honeymoon was short-lived.

House Republicans returned to Congress on Monday to continue their intra-party feuds on government spending, aid to Ukraine, the southern border and the possible expulsion of Representative George Santos.

The various battles within the House GOP seemed to fall to the wayside last week when the entire conference rallied behind Johnson's speakership bid, electing the Louisiana Republican on the first round of voting. His easy accession to the gavel painted Johnson as a unifying force for a party that had spent more than three weeks struggling to find a new leader after Kevin McCarthy was ousted by eight of his fellow Republicans.

Despite a blissful start, Johnson is facing a rocky beginning to his first full week as House Speaker.

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[MOMFUDSKI]

1. They bought a pig in a poke.

Now they own that doofus.

[getagrip_already]

2. but notably, they still haven't changed the vacate rule for the speakership.....

so if things reach the boiling point, it's back to Armageddon.

And either way, we are still on the road to shutdown with no passable bills in sight.

[Attilatheblond]

7. So, his Speakership can still be aborted

Good to know.

edited cuz my typing can't keep pace with the ol noggin.

[Talitha]

15. "edited cuz my typing can't keep pace with the ol noggin"

You're good - join the club, I'm charter member.

[NCIndie]

3. Poor Michael. Thoughts and prayers...

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Every repug seems to think that Mike Johnson is going to be the answer to their prayers but I think not.

He's been in their conference all along, why haven't anyone heard anything about him until now?

Now that he's in the spotlight, if anything, his actions speak louder than words, and every action is going to be scrutinized heavily.

I daresay he's going to find it rough going. Witness the unanimous 100% vote for him by repugs, they obviously didn't like the bad press when they couldn't pull it together until they got him voted in.

[dutch777]

5. GOP has no one that can fix their level of dysfunction. If one vote vacate rule isn't changed, he won't last.

Just a matter of time until somebody on the GOP side gets miffed and throws Johnson under the clown car.

[Initech]

6. They wanted hard lined religious authoritarianism, they get hard lined religious authoritarianism.

We don't want it, we choose freedom over this bullshit.

[Harker]

8. The honeymoon's over and they never even got his pants off. n/t

[Talitha]

16. Ok, that got a **snort**

[ailsagirl]

9. That was fast

[Probatim]

11. That's what she said.

[Ford_Prefect]

10. My money is on the head of Lettuce...

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See Also : https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/20/liz-truss-lettuce-resign-uk/

[ananda]

12. Are we betting scaramuccis now?

[bronxiteforever]

13. If your speaker has to delete a website of his cherished beliefs

because these beliefs are either odious to many, hateful to many or crazy stupid to most,, you might have a problem.

[Windicator]

14. GOP goes occult.

As always.

GOP are full-on occultists.

They have so much to hide.

We still don't know how many of our nation's top defense secrets are held and being peddled to our enemies by the GOP's
corrupt leader.

[Blue Owl]

17. Before he knows it, the GOP will be jerking off the next shlub in a crowded theater