Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker

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Source: NBC

WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, three sources with knowledge of the move told NBC News, doing so just as the House voted to avoid a government shutdown.

Johnson, R-La., has served as speaker for five months, having taken over for Kevin McCarthy who was ousted from the top job under a similar process.

It was not immediately clear how the House would act on her motion, which requires just a majority vote to remove the speaker. Greene, R-Ga., did not file the motion as privileged — which would force a vote within two legislative days — but instead as a regular motion, which could be referred to a committee where it would likely languish.

The House is set to leave for a two-week recess on Friday and won't consider the motion until after it returns, an official familiar with the process told NBC News.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-files-motion-oust-mike-johnson-house-speake-rcna134385

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[viva la]

1. Okay, I loathe Greene, but I kind of like this.

GOP cannibalization is good for the country!

[agingdem]

11. it absolutely is good for the country...

I find great comfort in knowing the House cretins hate each other almost as much as they hate Dems...and as long they're consumed with once again disemboweling one of their own, Biden's faux impeachment is on hold...I will say this...they never promised to govern if they took the House in 2022 but they did promise never-ending bogus revenge hearings.. and they've more than delivered on that promise...

anyone taking bets on the Dems saving MAGA Mike's ass?

[viva la]

13. Oh, I think the Dems shouldl offer a compromise--

Hakeem Jeffries as speaker!

It would take only a handful of sane GOPers...

Oh, right. There isn't even a handful of those.

[agingdem]

15. we can dream!...

The MAGA House is a season of The Walking Dead without make-up...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. This will be fun to watch

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[Irish_Dem]

17. After he let her wear that ridiculous rule breaking outfit at the SOTU.

She threaten to oust him if he made her follow floor rules.

LOL she is going to oust him anyway.

Johnson is such a fool.

[rurallib]

3. Please proceed. ...........

[Comfortably_Numb]

4. Wonder if skeevy Mike Johnson saw that coming, having prayed about it, no doubt.

[liberal N proud]

5. That took longer than expected

[dweller]

6. Well bless her

Shriveled little heart






✌🏻

[et tu]

33. you're assuming she has one lol nt

[NanaCat]

40. When did Elise Stefanik start wearing glasses?

Looks like she cut her hair, too.

[PJMcK]

7. Isn't she precious?

It’s not as if the GOP-led Congress has done much of anything else. They might as well go through another Speaker hunt.

Great political move, Marge! Create Congressional chaos 7 months before the elections. Let’s see how voters react.

Mike Johnson is an idiot but he seems head and shoulders above this dumb ass.

[Irish_Dem]

18. He is not smart enough to get control of MTG.

That makes her smarter than he is.

[Aristus]

8. She's clearly enjoying her self-appointed post as bomb-thrower.

Hope it slips out of her fingers someday, and lands at her feet.

[Johnny2X2X]

9. They're planning on not recognizing her

The GOP is gooing to basically ignore her motion.

[LiberalFighter]

10. Shame it wasn't a privileged motion.

That would had required the House to delay their two week vacation.

[louis-t]

27. She wouldn't dare upset her vacation.

She just wants attention.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. This is Marjorie Taylor Greene's motion to vacate resolution against Speaker Mike Johnson

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[Mr.Bill]

31. I wonder how many hours it took

staff to compose that.

[SergeStorms]

37. Mrs.Greene?

She's still married? I thought she was divorced.

That poor, poor son-of-a-bitch.

[Kennah]

42. Lucky bastard who divorced her

[SergeStorms]

45. So she still claiming...

to be married? Legally I guess she can keep the "Mrs.."

She's certainly not the type who'd be comfortable as a "Ms.," that's for sure.

[truthisfreedom]

14. They eat their own...

So I’m never surprised when the lead cannibal squeals out some dinner time announcement.

[MOMFUDSKI]

16. Now take the

Vote!!!! lol

[Irish_Dem]

19. She is such an attention seeker.

I cleaned it up.

[Blue Owl]

20. The beauty part is she doesn't see her own stupidity

[IronLionZion]

21. Their next vote should be to expel her, George Santos style

[BumRushDaShow]

22. The cowardice came out

when she didn't file it as a "privileged motion" to be dealt with post-haste, meaning they will probably slow walk it.

[Mr. Sparkle]

23. I do like me some gop infighting

[dembotoz]

24. how dare he want to pay some bills...how untrump!!!!!

[twodogsbarking]

25. A useful idiot.

[louis-t]

26. She wants to vacate the chair.

Which should make him vacate IN his chair.

[SunSeeker]

28. Well, it must be God's will, Mike.

[Ziggysmom]

29. Yup. His God told MTG to do this.

[Mysterian]

30. Elect a bunch of clowns

Expect a circus.

[Mr.Bill]

32. I'm sure they can find someone far worse

for the job than Mike Johnson. The question I struggle with is would I want my Democratic Representative to vote for it?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

34. Matt Gaetz worries House may "end up with a Democrat" speaker after MTG files to oust Mike Johnson

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Friday filed a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson as the House voted to avoid a government shutdown, NBC News reports.

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Johnson was elected speaker after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was ousted by a far-right group led by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. But Gaetz said he would not support Greene’s motion.

“If we vacated this speaker, we’d end up with a Democrat. When I vacated the last one, I made a promise to the country that we would not end up with the Democrat speaker. And I was right. I couldn’t make that promise again,” he told reporters.

“We’d have Republicans cross over. I worry that we’ve got Republicans who would vote for Hakeem Jeffries at this point,” he added. “I really do. I take no joy in saying that. But you can only vacate the speaker if you know that the party leadership won’t change hands. I knew that with certainty last time. I don’t know it with certainty this time.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/matt-gaetz-worries-house-may-162336988.html

You shit your bed Gaetz now sleep in it.

[FakeNoose]

35. Of course, that's exactly what will happen, and the sooner the better

By the first week of November we should see the icing on the cake - Democrats holding majority in the Senate and taking back the House in one fell swoop.

[4lbs]

36. This could have biblical ramifications for both of them and the GOP as a whole.

[SergeStorms]

38. So the People's business is on hold....

until these 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 fucking clowns decide who they want as Speaker.

No aid for Ukraine.
No aid for Israel.
No border protection.

NOTHING gets done until these idiots agree on a Speaker. Stall, stall, stall, and I'm guessing it's under orders from Trump.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

39. This makes me smile

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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.

[Kennah]

41. Dems should save PornBoy from his GOOP fiends, making him more impotent, forcing a pivot to the GOOP center

[Kennah]

43. Marge holding a presser

[Aussie105]

44. A poisoned chalice.

The GOP House Speaker is challenged with an impossible task.
That of lifting the GOP out of the self created swamp it lives in.

But keep swapping speakers, soon you will find the miracle working saviour of your party.
Or not.

Marge and a few others could help - by leaving politics and finding a job outside politics.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

46. 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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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.

[The Grand Illuminist]

47. Done by design

Block the people's business by bringing chaos to the House.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

48. Start the clock.

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