Being the Grand ole’ Parties House Speaker should earn the person ‘Hazard Pay’….
Past Republican occupant’s have gone down in Flames….
You Know...Ryan, McCarthy, Boehner, Hastert, Gingrich
Mike Johnson seems about to join the list….
New York Times: “Less than a year out from midterm elections in which Republicans’ vanishingly small majority is at stake, Mr. Johnson’s grasp on his gavel appears weaker than ever, as members from all corners of his conference openly complain about his leadership. Some predict that he may not last as the speaker for the rest of this term.”
“Republican women, in particular, have been publicly challenging Mr. Johnson and taking issue with his priorities and his style.”
“Their dissatisfaction is indicative of a broader splintering of a restive group of GOP lawmakers who are perpetually unhappy with their leaders, but appear to be reaching a breaking point with the current man at the top.”
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“President Trump didn’t tell Speaker Mike Johnson that he was granting a ‘full and unconditional pardon’ to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) before announcing it on Truth Social this morning,” Axios reports.
“Trump’s pardon boosts one of House Republicans’ top political targets — and could hamper GOP efforts to protect their razor-thin majority in next year’s midterms.“
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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), a prominent ally of President Trump, criticized Speaker Mike Johnson, calling him an ineffective leader who is losing control over the GOP conference headed into the midterm elections, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Said Stefanik: “He certainly wouldn’t have the votes to be speaker if there was a roll-call vote tomorrow. I believe that the majority of Republicans would vote for new leadership. It’s that widespread.”
She added: “Whereas Kevin McCarthy was a political animal, Mike Johnson is a political novice and boy does it show, with the House Republicans underperforming for the first time in the Trump era.”
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Politico: “Increasingly, rank-and-file House Republicans are bringing their spats with Johnson into the open, suggesting the speaker is losing further control over his restive members as his already slim majority threatens to narrow further and potentially devastating midterm elections loom.”
image…Politico
Republican House members ooze hatred.
Humorously,they seem to hate no one more than they do each other.
Mike doesn’t have to worry though.
He’s a self proclaimed” Constitutional Lawyer.”
As previously mentioned,I am still contemplating declaring myself one too!
Well, Jack, we seem to have enough unconstitutional lawyers [especially in this Administration].
Some scholarly advocate should represent the other side.
The Anti-Expert movement a ‘la Donald…
Republican leaders in the House of Representatives (from Wikipedia):
Cannon (1903–1911)Mann (1911–1919)Gillett (1919–1925)Longworth (1925–1931)Snell (1931–1939)Martin (1939–1959)Halleck (1959–1965)Ford (1965–1973)Rhodes (1973–1981)Michel (1981–1995)Gingrich (1995–1999)Hastert (1999–2007)Boehner (2007–2015)Ryan (2015–2019)McCarthy (2019–2023)Johnson (2023–present)
A thankless job for GOPer’s , eh?
WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down a revolt from House Republican women.
Several female lawmakers have been increasingly defying Johnson, R-La., on legislative matters and lobbing public broadsides at him — including a member of Johnson’s own leadership team.
This week alone, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., launched a discharge petition to go around Johnson and force a floor vote on a congressional stock trading ban, posting on X that she’s “pissed” that leadership isn’t moving fast enough on the issue while clarifying, “I like Mike.” Johnson prefers to go through regular order, and there has been an initial hearing on the issue.
Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the chair of House Republican Leadership, not only signed on to Luna’s petition but also publicly unloaded on Johnson over an unrelated issue in the national defense bill, suggesting in a series of social media posts that Johnson lied about the matter. The spat has seemingly since been resolved, but the bad blood between the two has long been simmering.
Asked about Stefanik’s broadsides in the Capitol on Wednesday, Johnson shrugged off the complaints and said he’s “not worried” about his standing “at all.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign from Congress next year
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“There’s 220 or so people in this conference and lots of different opinions,” he told reporters. “Everybody’s not delighted with every decision every day, but that’s Congress.”
Meanwhile, a number of high-profile Republican women are fleeing the House for other opportunities, weighing retirement or quitting Congress early, fueling some concern that GOP women’s ranks could be depleted in the next Congress.
Taken together, it’s a sign of growing frustration among some House GOP women, who have less representation in leadership and hold only a single elected committee gavel. Two House Republican women, who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters, said that they feel they have been passed over for opportunities, that their priorities don’t always get taken as seriously under Johnson’s leadership and that they believe that could be driving some of the exits and public fights with him.
“It’s a sea change — for the worse. And it’s one of the many reasons that numerous House Republican women are running for higher office,” one of the GOP women said, accusing Johnson of “undercutting” some Republican women. “I’m concerned there will be less Republicans in Congress, period, next year, and certainly that means there will be less Republican women.”
The second woman said: “We aren’t taken seriously. You have women who are very accomplished, very successful, who have earned the merit, who aren’t given the time of the day.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia — who blindsided Johnson with her recent resignation announcement, according to a GOP source familiar with the situation — has gone so far as to publicly accuse the current male GOP leaders of bias, telling The Washington Post in a recent interview she believes Republican women have been “marginalized.”
Greene and Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, who has also been a vocal critic of Johnson, are scheduled to meet next week to talk about their shared frustrations, according to a source familiar with the matter.
A spokesman for Johnson’s political team said in a statement that he strongly supports the women in his conference and has been working hard to recruit even more women to the House, noting that several who are on the Speaker’s Joint Fundraising Committee have received an average of nearly $400,000 for their campaigns so far this year.
House GOP Trump Meeting
“Not only has Speaker Johnson elevated women in leadership, he has also helped recruit and support women running for office,” the spokesman said. “This cycle, we have women running in 10 of the top districts we are watching. Our team is in touch with them and others across the country — just as we were in 2024 — as Speaker Johnson works to recruit strong conservatives who can win, help us grow our majority, and help us deliver on our agenda.”…
By Melanie Zanona and Bridget Bowman, NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republican-women-are-open-revolt-speaker-mike-johnson-rcna247297
This to be made into a post….