BREAKING- IT WILL SOON JUST BE DOWN TO 1 Rep. Mike Gallagher, he is a Republican from Wisconsin,

[riversedge]

he had announced he would not seek re-election a few months ago. But his leaving now is double wonderful




BREAKING- IT WILL SOON JUST BE DOWN TO 1

Rep. Mike Gallagher, he is a Republican from Wisconsin, announced he's leaving Congress on April 19. In his absences House Republicans will have just a one-seat majority.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Hey Mike, you're leaving, so . . .

vote for aid to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel.

[MadameButterfly]

6. It would be nice if frustrated Republicans would stay and do the right thing

if they don't need to be re-elected. We are always losing the best of them (that being a very low bar). i'm guessing the fear of Trump goes beyond being primaried to the very safety of their families. Or we are just down to a particularly spineless lot, even the ones leaving.

[onecaliberal]

9. Can you say speaker Jeffries? ❤️

Let them go.

[barbtries]

11. i think they're doing math.

if they stay and do the right thing, they'll be stuck in a losing, expensive campaign against some magat. even their leaving at this point in time is a statement and i'll take it.

i don't know this guy at all, don't even know if he was a reasonable republican. but it is telling that these people are leaving before their term ends. hopefully some R voters are paying attention and starting to figure out why.

[onecaliberal]

19. There isn't any money to campaign with. Dump is stealing it all.

[MadameButterfly]

21. I mean, if they aren't running again anyway and don't need the money, they could fund Ukraine

before they go. They could fund the government. Instead they leave it to people who won't do that.

He is one of 3 Republicans who voted not to impeach Mayorkas. That means he has a line somewhere. Not where I'd like it to be, but some degree of sanity. Probably he's feeling heat from that and doesn't like it.

[barbtries]

22. i definitely didn't mean to imply

that i think these republicans care about anything but themselves. along with hypocrisy, projection, and fascism, a hallmark of any republican is its complete disregard for democracy or the public good. with vanishingly rare exceptions, republicans suck.

[bdamomma]

20. Cowardly

rats jumping ship.

[tanyev]

2. They'd better start using kid gloves for Republican Fight Club.

[Hugin]

4. I support the use of...

Anvils and baby grand pianos.

[Hugin]

3. Seeing how they are treating Buck has to...

Encourage the others who want out of the circus to hit the road.

Emptying out his office is probably the tip of the iceberg of daily life in the all new Republican Trump Party.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. A small nit: You misspelled "traitortrump".

[Hugin]

28. I'll strive for consistency!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. The craziest members of the GOP caucus are driving everyone else out of the House

Link to tweet

[PortTack]

17. Driving ppl out of the house...even they can't stand the stench of greene turd and gaetz!

[calimary]

7. Whatzamatter, Mike? Stinks so bad even YOU can't stand it anymore?

[brush]

8. That party is even disgusting die-hard republicans.

[Speaks2]

10. Scary

I hadn't seen a picture of him. Good looking dude. Given his politics and his age, that scares me in the same way Kinzinger scares me.

[Bev54]

12. I read that his date of leaving, April 19th means that there will not be a special election under

Wisconsin rules. The seat will stay open until the general election in Nov. Any seats empty after the 2nd Tuesday in April does not get a special.

[AllyCat]

14. Leaving the entirety of D8 with no representation.

What a twerp.

[Bev54]

15. It sounds to me it is another FU to the leadership. I am ok with that.

[AllyCat]

13. Yass!!!

[RussellCattle]

16. Years ago it was Republicans who set up retirements from Congress as being more lucrative than....

.......running again and losing your office and some of your retirement pay. (Seems crazy, I know)
This was back in the glory days when the Democrats held both houses, pre Gingrich. So I guess the idea was to entice Dems to retire. If this is still the same it looks to me like this clever scheme has come back to bite them.

[PortTack]

18. Luv the sound of speaker Jeffries!

[electric_blue68]

23. Wait... Don't they still have a 4 person (small) majority? Don't get me wrong - I'd be Thrilled IF they were Now down to

... a one person majority!!!
👍 😄

With Rep Jefferies waiting in the wings!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. Mike Gallagher carefully timed his departure so that his seat could not be replaced this cycle

Gallagher really screwed MAGA Mike and the GOP

Link to tweet

[Hope22]

26. They know what is cooked up for January 6th

And don’t want to be anywhere near that place. That is my projection.

[DLCWIdem]

27. Buck said there were 3 more coming

One down 2 to go