Mike Johnson's Red Alert on Lawmakers Quitting

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Mike Johnson’s Red Alert on Lawmakers Quitting

December 1, 2025 at 7:54 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 53 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/12/01/mike-johnsons-red-alert-on-lawmakers-quitting/

“Members of the House of Representatives are quitting Congress at a record rate, with Republican retirements and resignations outpacing Democrats by a nearly 2-to-1 ratio in the first 11 months of the year,” Axios reports.

“In previous cycles, the party with more departures tends to lose seats — if not the majority.”

[marble falls]

1. Death by a hundred cuts.

[Deuxcents]

2. Your leadership, or lack of, sucks, Mike.

[off-the-clock]

3. I just read a Quora thought that enough reps quitting would make Jeffries become Speaker

If true and that happened it would be quite a turn of fortune

[DFW]

4. The ones quitting know that

They won’t just pick up and disappear from one day to the next. Not enough of them. It would take ten immediate Republican vacancies in the House for Jeffries to be able become Speaker. The departing Republicans know this. Most of them will try to time their departures so that Johnson can hang on. Their disappointment with their own party does not extend to handing us the House.

[Irish_Dem]

5. So they will save their own skin, but not the country or other Americans.

As usual, GOP maggots are selfish bastards.

[DFW]

6. They may be deserting their own sinking ship

It doesn’t mean they want to save anyone else from drowning.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Exactly, they are rats leaving the ship. The rest of us are on our own.

As per usual the rat bastards take care of themselves while being paid to be public servants.