Speaker Johnson urges GOP lawmakers to maintain decorum at State of the Union

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

03/06/24 6:47 PM ET


Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is urging GOP lawmakers to maintain decorum when President Biden delivers his State of the Union address Thursday night, after Republicans had a number of outbursts during last year’s speech.

Johnson made the request during a closed-door GOP conference meeting Wednesday morning, three Republican lawmakers who attended the gathering told The Hill. “Decorum is the order of the day,” Johnson told members, according to one lawmaker.

“He said we should carry ourselves with good decorum,” another member said. The plea from Johnson came one day before Biden is scheduled to deliver his State of the Union address to a divided Congress that includes many of his foremost Republican critics.

That dynamic was on full display last year, when some GOP lawmakers heckled the president throughout his speech in the House chamber. Cries of “secure the border” were heard at one point during the speech, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called Biden a “liar” when he was discussing potential cuts to Social Security and Medicare as part of a deal on the debt limit.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4514306-speaker-johnson-urges-gop-lawmakers-to-maintain-decorum-at-state-of-the-union/

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Good luck with that. Howler monkey will be screeching at full force.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Not happening

Those petulant spoiled brats are too selfish to allow anyone else to have a a different opinion.

[3Hotdogs]

6. Not only that, but if you yells out somethin' you get on the Teevee and

the people back home in Georgiastan get to see Little Margie in all her glory, standing up to Sleepy Joe.

[Attilatheblond]

21. Did Johnson explain what the word 'decorum' means so the Ruckus Caucus gets his point?

Guessing several of them have no idea what that word means.

[Jerry2144]

24. It's hard to explain that word

Using single syllable words and a vocabulary a third grader can understand. I think the easiest way is to tell Perjury Traitor Greene to act her age, not her IQ

[PatSeg]

25. And I don't think the clowns are going to listen to

Johnson anyway. He doesn't wield much power with republicans in the House. Being republican Speaker these days is a thankless job.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

2. Decorum - GOP - does not compute!!

[BonnieJW]

16. I was just thinking that

😊

[SouthernDem4ever]

3. In other words "Don't act like a bunch of wild monkeys this time"

SMH

[BeyondGeography]

4. Decorum in the Party of Trump

What is dissonance, Alex.

[C_U_L8R]

5. It's gonna be a great big mess

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[Bengus81]

7. Yeah MAGA Mike....scolding them will work. Pfffftttttt...

Those asshats like MTG will double down on the screeching since you told them not too.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Moses Johnson is more effective in Sunday School than as Speaker. . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Has there ever been a SotU that Ds disrupted? That Ds had to be lectured about in advance?

[TNNurse]

9. He wants a group of immature, irrational, emotional, incompetent

fools to behave like normal elected officials? He is dumber than I thought.

[Harker]

11. They'll boo Yulia Navalnya...

or, at best, sit on their hands when she is introduced.

[FailureToCommunicate]

12. HA! Good luck with that, Johnson.

[markbark]

17. President Biden should reply.

by saying (in a southern drawl)
"Hush now Margie, the adults are talking. Why don't you and Laurie go upstairs and play. We'll come get you when we're finished"

[duhneece]

19. I love seeing howler monkeys

But not in congress.

[Oopsie Daisy]

13. He's a weak kitty cat... purr-purr-purr!

Nobody is going to listen to him.

[niyad]

26. PLEASE do not insult our feline loved ones with that comparison!!!

[Oopsie Daisy]

30. You're right... He's more of a MOUSE!

Squeak squeak!

[orangecrush]

14. ...

[SKKY]

15. This SOTU might end up like the first 20 minutes of the 1st Roadhouse movie...

...I think their constituents demand it.

[Joinfortmill]

18. The President must conduct the State of the Union, but I think he should do even more because we are in dangerous times

He should have a series of modernized FDR type 'Fireside Chats' in the next few months, promoting his accomplishments and plans for the next four years. Never mind the usual ads, he needs to do something to directly connect with the American people and the world.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. Remember, since Raygun revived FDR's radio address, Presidents had been doing "Weekly Radio Addresses"

which continued all through to 45, who stopped them a year into his term.

I know my local news station would air them on Saturday mornngs at 10 am but when Obama came in and did his, they (purposely IMHO) moved it to an ungodly 6 am hour (although I'm up at 4 am but most aren't and would have missed something like that at 6 am).

I found out that Biden had "A Weekly Conversation" broadcast - the archived ones being here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRJNAhZxtqH9ZwJnK6qMOczJjf_3RkwWE

Looks like these were done his first year in office.

The problem here is whether there is interest in it if it's not batshit crazy Alex Jones style stuff because the RW-owned corporate media will refuse to do any "buzz" about such things. Maybe with Soros buying Audacy, that could be something on the agenda.

[surfered]

20. Trump set the standard for the GOP..

..it’s ok now to openly, unabashedly lie and act like a jerk.without any shame. And without shame, they’re will be bad behavior.

[lark]

23. Yeah, don't be rude, wink, wink.

Howler Monkey is his girl.

[niyad]

27. How can they maintain something they do not possess???

[Walleye]

28. If Johnson doesn't rip up his copy of the speech

They will put his head on a pike, figuratively speaking

[czarjak]

29. Wanna bet? I do!

[GreenWave]

31. Typo: GOP lawbreakers.

Fixed it.

[Karma13612]

32. Yea, sure.

No one respects Johnson
No one in the GOP respects Biden.

Make pop corn. “It’s going to be wild.”

[Talitha]

33. Johnson should order Patrick 'gavel' McHenry to go play whack-a-goon with the hecklers.

[CBHagman]

35. I'd like to see that.

It would also wake up newsrooms throughout the country.

[CBHagman]

34. Bumping this, but...

...for all that I appreciate (really!) the speaker's admonition, the House Republicans could throw their own feces and it wouldn't surprise me in the least.

[Rhiannon12866]

36. And we saw how enthusiastic and supportive he was during the president's speech...