Speaker Mike Johnson Faces Hard-Right Discontent, Risking Disarray Ahead

[Eugene]

Source: Bloomberg

Speaker Mike Johnson Faces Hard-Right Discontent, Risking Disarray Ahead

Billy House and Erik Wasson
Sun, November 19, 2023 at 10:00 AM EST·3 min read

(Bloomberg) — Republican ultra-conservatives are running out of patience less than four weeks after installing one of their own, Mike Johnson, as House speaker, signaling turmoil ahead and heightened risk of a government shutdown in the new year.

Many of them are fuming over the new speaker’s support of an interim funding measure that postponed a Nov. 18 government shutdown until mid-January without winning concessions conservatives wanted. That seemed too reminiscent of Johnson’s predecessor, whose ouster unleashed a fierce succession struggle.

“We went through an entire month of drama about a speaker — and we just did the same damn thing we’ve been doing?” Representative Chip Roy of Texas complained bitterly Wednesday on the House floor.

The party’s assertive hard-liners, a few of whom toppled then-speaker Kevin McCarthy just last month, are warning they won’t yield on their expectations for steep cuts in government spending and conservative policy changes, despite the limited leverage possessed by a slim and fractious Republican House majority.

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Disarray ahead? As if the lunatics are running an orderly asylum.

[Walleye]

1. Never mind that most Americans approve of not shutting the government down over the holidays

The freedom caucus is kind of the “you’ll eat it, and you’ll like it, crowd”

[dutch777]

2. Yep, just something to look forward to in early 2024...more of the GOP governance by clown car.

How Johnson or anyone else thinks that the politics will align any better in 2024 than now is beyond me. The closer it gets to a major election the more rigid RW folks will become, especially the trouble makers who run on just drama not actual governance or legislating.

[OnDoutside]

8. All day every day

Exactement ! There are no cookies for predicting this eventuality. They've boxed themselves into so many corners, whether it is a government shutdown or voting thru an extension, or by not voting for Israel or Ukraine money, it will bring each GOP speaker down.

[Initech]

3. I think it's way past time we tell the Freedom Caucus where they can shove it.

The adults are in charge now. When we want a bunch of screaming children to run things, we'll call you. Oh wait we don't want screaming children running things. We saw how poorly it went when Orange Man Baby was in charge.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. The hard right will never be pleased till we burn this country down

And proclaim Donald Trump as Grand Ayatollah for life.

[Hekate]

5. Disarray? You need alliteration: Conservatives in Chaos

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. "Disarray." Excellent work by our American comrades.

I will instruct the paymaster in Florida to add a little something extra to next month's "campaign donation" for each one of you. -Vlad

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Oh, but God will show Mike the way! Sarcasm...I'm waiting for him to come out and proclaim that G

showed him the way, when they get something finally together, if ever (I doubt that they will, I don't have much faith (ironic, isn't it) in the GOP getting anything done, that is worth talking about.