MSNBC reporting that Margie has filed a motion to vacate MAGAMike's chair

[Stinky The Clown]

Hahahahahahahaha

Keep tossing those grenades, Goopers.

[JohnSJ]

1. It will only happen if they bring it to the floor.

[drray23]

3. I think motions to vacate the chair are privileged

and get to the floor no matter what.

[JohnSJ]

33. Didn't know that, thanks. Probably won't pass though, but waste more time which is what the

MAGA group wants along with attention

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Apparently after the two week vacation resting away from doing nothing. . . . .nt

[SouthernDem4ever]

52. Shouldn't we be calling her MagaMarge too?

It goes with MagaMike.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Let the games begin.

Link to tweet

[niyad]

20. crazy eyes!

[KPN]

45. No kidding. Same look King Kong had in his eyes while staving off fighter planes attacking

him at the top of the Empire State Building! She thinks she's Queen Kong, but she's just fucking nuts!

[Ray Bruns]

38. And so it begins.

https://m.

[riversedge]

39. ha ha Perfect picture of @mtg!! Her bigotry shines through her eyes as she spits on people.

[llmart]

40. She looks rabid!

I'd stay away from her.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Why? Does she want the job?

[Attilatheblond]

25. Maybe, but...

she hasn't been Page One this week so she could just be looking for attention.

[MagickMuffin]

5. Awesomeness, they get shit done when they want to

Looking forward to the newest shitcarnival. I’m betting it’ll be as well run machine as the last time and the time before that.

[617Blue]

6. If true this will really damage the GOP. Their chaotic incompetence is filtering thru to the public

Most people do not pay rapt attention to the day to day political tides ebbing and flowing on a day to day basis. They are busy living their lives, working going to school raising children's etc..

But the daily drama coming out of the House GOP is breaking thru and it will hurt the party in Nov.

[Rebl2]

8. Good

I hope it hurts republicans in November!

[617Blue]

16. They are literally incapable of governing. You will some scathing rebukes on FOX and WSJ

criticizing the GOP for being incompetent and incapable of governing.

The House GOP is an embarrassment.

[cab67]

19. That's because they don't want to govern.

They want to rule.

[617Blue]

34. True, but they aren't even capable of the basics.

Each succession of GOP leadership, Newt, Boehner, Ryan, McCarthy etc...is less competent than the previous.

[cab67]

55. I never said...

...they were capable of ruling. Or of governing.

[Beachnutt]

30. You mean

Roevember..

[ProudMNDemocrat]

14. The CHAOS in the House will hurt them BIG TIME!!!!

Voters want to see results coming from the House. There has been none and the Democrats will message that.

[JohnSJ]

35. It should, but I honestly don't recognize the country anymore

[Mr.Bill]

43. It won't hurt people like MTG.

The people who vote for these assholes want exactly what she is doing. The want to burn it all down. I can only imagine what it must be like to live in a district where the majority of people want this and vote for people like her.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

53. You have no idea

One of my Senators sends traitorous letters to Iran while my district's Rep is a MAGAt. The other senator hasn't done a damned thing as far as I can tell.

[Takket]

7. Is she secretly working for the Democrats?

Because absolutely NOTHING about that helps the rethugs in any way. A motion to vacate only helps the Dems. Lol

What a fucking idiot. Go for it. I’ll say this again: it isn’t up to Democrats to save gop officials. Their job is to represent their voters who want democratic leadership. Aka Jeffries.

[Model35mech]

28. Nah. She's laying a marker for quality of the next MAGA Speaker.

Mikey wasn't radical enough to satisfy maga-tailored Greene

Johnson caved in on the idea of supporting Ukraine only after a very radical border bill was passed.

[AllyCat]

9. Suppose all the Dems will vote with the MAGAt caucus (actually, that might be all the Goopers now)

Idiots. Complete lunatics with no ability to govern. Their constituents are getting a raw deal and the entire country pays for their circus antics.

[struggle4progress]

10. I wonder how many Republicans would vote to expel her

[Volaris]

48. ...

[MadameButterfly]

11. Could Dems ally themselves with some Republicans who want Ukraine aid

and elect someone who will bring the vote to the floor? The guy Trump said no to, maybe, I'm forgetting his name.

They only need 2 or 3 Republicans, right?

Of course finding that many Republicans who care more about Ukraine than what Trump will do to them may be hard.

[Alhena]

12. I think you mean Emmer, and he himself was unwilling to win with Dem votes, which he likely could have done

Emmer just quit once Trump said he wasn't his guy. I'm sure he would have likely gotten a lot of Dem votes if he had pushed for a vote on the floor.

[MadameButterfly]

15. I'm praying for a change of heart

though I understand the odds. But with Republicans quitting out of frustration, one would hope someone would take action against what is frustrating them

[Ping Tung]

13. When the Purity tests are over the Republican Party will stand united.

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All 12 of them wearing Golden Sneakers and working against each other.

[PatSeg]

17. Ha, ha, ha!!!

She just can't let a day go by without be a headline! That woman needs some serious therapy.

[flying_wahini]

21. If she DOES manage to get him out and they install an even More MAGA true believer then

all Americans will be aghast at their foolery on display.
Does she want the job herself? Or is it all for Matt?
Is she just trying to get the Vice President nomination?
Or save herself by throwing herself on her sword?


No real answers yet, but hang on to your hat.
Deep end here we come.

[SouthernDem4ever]

26. There is no one more magat than Johnon

He just is a tiny bit more subtle about it right now.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

22. Will MAGAtMosesMike step on his johnson on national tv? Stay tuned!

[Midnight Writer]

23. I love it when the monsters eat each other up.

[Warpy]

24. Good, he's been playing too many dangerous games for TFG

I'm just a little suprised Moscow Marge filed the motion. She probably thinks she can get his job now.

At this point, I don't care who gets him out. There will be a government shutdown in all probability while the Peabran Caucus dithers and Republicans outside it fume. They're all still afraid of TFG and his fan club, so I'm not expecting the next Speaker to be a sensible one, not unless there are enough brave Republicans to give Jeffries the job.

I knew this was going to be a Klown Kongress, but it has so far vastly exceeded my expectations.

[GreenWave]

27. Someone should tease her. You wrote vacate the bowels, not chair!

[Attilatheblond]

29. Did the House manage to avoid the looming shutdown first?

Or is Empty G just trying to block that from happening. I could see her thinking that might get her more $upport from the idiots in those Made In China red hats.

[Initech]

31. Worst Congress in US history!

Fuck you Fox News for foisting this nightmare on us! I hope Sean Hannity sleeps easier at night knowing he's causing the chaos and corruption in the House.

[sheshe2]

32. A game of musical chairs.🤔

[JustTooMuch]

36. Vacated seat

If the seat is vacated doesn’t it take just a majority to elect the new speaker of the house. Are we that close to a Speaker Jeffries?

[poli-junkie]

37. Maybe this is a huge distraction

aka another media squirrel, while Trump gets the $454 million from foreign autocrats?

The timing is suspect to me.

[riversedge]

41. I hear Jeffries is available!!

[Ford_Prefect]

42. Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of Margie? Will Reverend Mike seek forgiveness? Will the ghost of Newt Gingrich

appear and shame them all? Will Vlad the Impaler reach across the sea and deliver a new speaker? Will Donald the Maganifiscent declare an outsider to the post
Stay tuned to your wireless sets while the GOP turns back time to the golden days when Men were mute, Women were under restraint, and no-one asked questions of The Powers That Be.

[AverageOldGuy]

44. This would be funny . . .

. . . if Ukrainian civilians and soldiers were not dying because the Republican Party is now the party of traitors, thieves, MAGAts, and other pieces of shit.

[OMGWTF]

46. This is the least productive Congress in 150 years. They must be so proud.

[Raven123]

47. Darn it. I'm out of popcorn

[honest.abe]

49. She needs Dem votes and I believe the Dems will not play along this time.

I suspect there was a deal otherwise Johnson would not have gone forward with the vote.

[Oopsie Daisy]

50. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 *

* how long will it be before they can act on it or take a vote?

And,

[RainCaster]

51. Woot woot!

They are so hell-bent on destroying themselves. It's popcorn time!

[JoseBalow]

54. LOAD - Lack Of Attention Disorder

What a shit-show

[LetMyPeopleVote]

56. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

BREAKING: Republicans descend on MAGA Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene in a rage, ripping into her for her decision to file a motion to oust their Speaker Mike Johnson from power.

This Republican civil war is getting ugly fast...

"It’s not only idiotic, but it actually does not do anything to advance the conservative movement. And in fact, it undermines the country, and our majority," said Republican Representative Mike Lawler, a so-called "moderate" who might lose his seat in New York next election.

Far-right Representative Clay Higgins said Greene's push to remove Johnson risked losing the only leader capable of leading them "through these very dark and challenging times.”

“I consider Marjorie Taylor Greene to be my friend. She’s still my friend. But she just made a big mistake," Higgins wrote on Twitter (X). "To think that one of our Republican colleagues would call for his ouster right now — it’s really, it’s abhorrent to me and I oppose it."

Green claims that her motion to vacate stems from his anger over the $1.2 trillion spending bill that the Republican-controlled house just passed, but as usually the likeliest explanation is that she wants attention.

[Emile]

57. They have no clue how to govern. MTG thinks

the Republicans have a huge majority.

[D23MIURG23]

58. I hope the Dems can cut a deal with Johnson for Ukraine funding.

Dems get a vote on Funding, Johnson gets to survive Moron Traitor Goon's latest episode.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

59. Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson

House Republicans were already a divided and dysfunctional mess. Then Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/marjorie-taylor-greene-files-motion-oust-speaker-mike-johnson-rcna144669

So what happens now? In the short term, nothing. When Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida filed his motion against McCarthy, he did so as a privileged resolution, which forced a prompt vote. Greene, however, has chosen a different path: Because her resolution isn’t privileged, we won’t see a vote for at least two weeks — members are taking a scheduled break — and it’s possible that we’ll never see a vote. (In the recent past, then-Republican Rep. Mark Meadows filed a motion to vacate against then-Speaker John Boehner, but the North Carolinian never followed through.)

“I’m not saying that it won’t happen in two weeks or it won’t happen in a month or who knows when," Greene told reporters. "But I am saying the clock has started. It’s time for our conference to choose a new speaker."

As for whether Johnson might ultimately meet McCarthy’s fate, there’s an enormous amount of uncertainty. Given the tiny GOP majority in the chamber, if Democrats were to vote against Johnson, as they did with McCarthy, it would only take a small handful of Republicans to kick the House speaker out of his office.

It’s not difficult to imagine those votes materializing — especially given the ferocity of the House Freedom Caucus’ criticisms of Johnson — but whether Democrats intend go along with such an effort remains an open question.

While the fight takes shape, let’s not miss the forest for the trees. Resignations in the GOP-led chamber have reached a generational high. Legislative progress has slowed to a pace unseen in nearly a century. Lawmakers are struggling mightily to complete basic tasks. Johnson organized a retreat focused on unifying his conference, and most of his members didn’t show up. A recent Punchbowl News report concluded, “This is the most chaotic, inefficient and ineffective majority we’ve seen in decades covering Congress.”

It’s against this backdrop that one of the House’s most notorious extremists has launched an effort to oust her party’s speaker — six months after other radical GOP members successfully ousted his predecessor.

I wrote a book a few years ago about Republicans abandoning their role as a governing party. It’s good to see so many GOP officials take steps to prove the thesis true.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

60. Start the clock

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