House quickly kills Marjorie Taylor Greene's effort to oust Speaker Johnson

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Source: ABC News

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday officially triggered a vote on her motion to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson, but within minutes it was overwhelmingly rejected.

There were audible boos from lawmakers in the chamber as Greene spoke at length about her grievances with Johnson as she called for a vote.

The Georgia congresswoman, flanked by co-sponsor GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, asserted Johnson has "not lived up to a single one" of the promises he made the Republican conference after he was elected to the top post in October.

"By passing the Democrats' agenda and handcuffing the Republicans' ability and influence legislation, our elected Republican Speaker Mike Johnson has aided and abetted the Democrats and the Biden administration in destroying our country," Greene said.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-triggers-vote-motion-oust-speaker/story?id=110043228

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Marjorie Taylor Greene begins effort to remove House speaker

This will be fun to watch

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https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/house-speaker-mike-johnson-vote-05-08-24/h_f505ee1d2bd5601829947f8d0f6f452d

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called up a resolution to remove Republican Speaker Mike Johnson on the House floor Wednesday evening, a move that starts the clock to force a vote over ousting the Louisiana Republican from his leadership post. It's a major challenge to the speaker even though he is expected to prevail with help from Democrats.

Now that Greene has put the process in motion, the House will have to consider the issue within two legislative days. House GOP leaders are expected to quickly take up and move to kill Greene’s motion, which could happen as soon as today.

A floor vote to oust Johnson would require a majority to succeed, but a motion to table — or kill — the resolution is expected to be offered and voted on first.

In the wake of Johnson’s push to pass a major foreign aid package over the objections of hardline conservatives, House Democratic leadership announced that Democrats would help Johnson keep his job by voting to table if the issue arose.

A failed vote will give Johnson an opportunity to argue that it is time to move on from the issue. But support from Democrats will open Johnson up to even more criticism from his right flank.

[AZ8theist]

32. SHOCKING!! CALL THE GESPACHO POLICE!!!!

[wryter2000]

2. I don't think she's going to get very far with this

Based on the boos, I think she's lost a lot of Republicans.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. They will vote to table it

and that will be the end of that.

[getagrip_already]

7. If dems dont back him, he can only lose 1 vote...

The house sits at 217 r to 213 d.

With green voting yay, that makes it 214 yay, 216 nay. If one more flips, that makes it 215 to 215.

After that, the yays win. Any Republicans don't show up or vote present, the yays get closer.

It's up to the dems.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. The House just killed it 359-43

Next!

[Dulcinea]

19. Even the Repubs are tired of her endless crap. nt

[PortTack]

22. Obviously they truly are...do ya think she gets that now?

[Attilatheblond]

26. Doubtful. She seems pretty dense

and for sure, math is not her strong suit.

[happybird]

29. She gets lots of press and attention for her bs

so I doubt she cares what her colleagues think. This is far from the last “look at me” stunt she’ll pull. Plus, if a few thousand crazies send her money in support of her actions, why would she stop?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. ...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Oh lordy, you may have called up BoBo to assist the MT one!

[BumRushDaShow]

9. I'm sure she will be right there

although MTG and Bobo are no longer BFFs.

[BaronChocula]

6. They actually used the word trigger

quite a few ways to go with that.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. This makes me smile

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[Westcoast4life]

10. Just this week, Mike Johnson vowed to use congress to get Trumps criminal cases thown out. Please Dems don't save him.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mike-johnson-vows-to-use-congress-to-save-trump-from-criminal-trials-it-has-to-stop/ar-BB1lZCGu|

[orangecrush]

15. Welcome to DU - A MAGATs worst nigtmare

Is Democrats and non cult member Republicans agreeing on one thing - Donald Trump will not become emperor.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. The House just killed it. Headline/article change

House quickly kills Marjorie Taylor Greene's effort to oust Speaker Johnson

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The House quickly moved to hold a vote on a motion to table, or effectively kill, Greene's effort to oust Johnson.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise rose to request the vote on tabling Greene's resolution, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. The final vote to dismiss of Greene's motion was 359-43 with seven lawmakers voting present.

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[Traurigkeit]

13. "Republican Speaker Mike Johnson has aided and abetted the Democrats"

aided and abetted

Interesting choice of words

[Attilatheblond]

27. She has an odd way of saying 'committed governance'

[orangecrush]

14. The dam has broken

At long last.

[bluestarone]

16. oooooh that's gotta hurt!!

I love it!!!

[Aussie105]

17. MTG: I run this place!

The rest of her crowd: Not so fast, Marge!

Another step in the eventual death of the R party?

Shifting deck chairs on the Titanic didn't help either.

[KPN]

36. That's exactly what this was about. It had nothing to do with support for or confidence in Mike Johnson.

It's about egos plain and simple!

[riversedge]

18. If the @gophouse had any decency in them, they would vote to kick her out of the House.

[edbermac]

20. Eat 💩 Madge

[50 Shades Of Blue]

21. Loser!

[Jacson6]

23. IMHO She's a clown. n/t

[BlueKota]

24. Glad Marge loses,

but I am confused. Didn't Johnson agree to her terms to try and pull crap to get their master Donny off the hook for all his crimes yesterday? Why did she call for his ouster today then?

I hope the Democrats got some concessions from him for their votes like not interfering in the court cases against tfg and to quit trying to manufacture reasons to impeach President Biden.

The crooked Republican judges are already bending over every which way they can to get their orange lord and master off anyway.

[prodigitalson]

25. johson always looks like he just got back from partying with clay shaw and david ferri in jfk

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. How it started, how it's going

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[lapfog_1]

30. now I hope bible thumper MJ takes out the trash

and removes mtg from all committee assignments.

[honest.abe]

31. Just to be clear the reason this failed is because Dems refused to vote with MTG.

A few months ago Dems voted with Gaetz to oust McCarthy. Which I think was a mistake at the time. However it seems to have worked out regardless.

[OverBurn]

33. Why can't they get rid of her?

[JohnnyRingo]

34. MTG was genuinely PO'ed when she was booed.

It was all over her face.
It should have been a look of embarrassment, but she was angry that everyone wasn't with her instead.

[KPN]

37. Yeah, she's not much different than the trumpster himself. The ultimate narcissist.

[blue-wave]

35. Didn't she just

have a meeting with Johnson? I thought I heard on a radio report while driving that the meeting lasted about 3 hours. The reporter made it sound as though they were inching toward some sort of reconciliation. Apparently not, let the show continue!!

[JohnnyRingo]

38. I wonder if it has anything to do with Johnson.

It could be that she introduced the vacate just because she could.
It's a show of power, something she's obviously hungry for. Republicans should be kicking themselves in the ass for instituting the rule that anyone can bring about a vote to vacate.

"I don't like that blue tie he was wearing yesterday".