"...Onimous sign for Trump..." [View all]
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I've been reading reports of the effects of the Speaker's fight in the House with many MSM outlets referring to it as a Trump "victory". I watched the whole thing, live (2:00 AM on Saturday, Jan 4th here in the Philippines) and I thought it was chaos. To have to hold the vote open for an hour to get 6 holdouts and flip 3 more votes to re-elect a Speaker with no other candidate from within his own caucus is far from a "victory". The opposition to Mike Johnson seems quite organized to me. It is no coincidence that the 6 holdouts and 3 opponents add up to the exact number needed to call for a vote to vacate the Speaker's chair and only 2 or 3 Republican members voting for someone else prevents Johnson from serving as Speaker. Those renegades sent a message and although most of the MSN either ignores that message or diminishes it, I read the message loud and clear. Since I still subscribe to the Boston Globe, I was heartened to read an article that captures my interpretation, so I have linked it here.
Speaker Mike Johnson’s bid to retain his job was in trouble as three hard-right conservative members within the razor-thin Republican majority in the House voted against him. The revolt threatened to plunge the chamber into the same chaos of two years ago, when Republicans were unable to choose a speaker for four days in a foreshadowing of the dysfunction to come.
Some last-minute maneuvering Friday helped Johnson pull out a first-ballot win and allow new House members to be sworn in and get to work. But the drama in performing the most perfunctory task of governing doesn’t bode well as Republicans grapple with balancing the slimmest House majority since the 1930s with approaching deadlines on government funding and increasing the nation’s debt limit.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/03/nation/mike-johnson-reelected-speaker
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