MAGA giveth and MAGA taketh away. Actually, Mike Johnson will be better off without the gavel in his hands but the embarrassment of being run out of Dodge will not be good. Maybe he and Kevin McCarthy can open up a taco stand in Bakersfield or something. Or a used car lot. That’s an even better idea. Look for the House *leadership* if it stays in Republican hands to look like a cross between Machiavelli and the Keystone Kops. The Hill:
Hardline conservatives are plotting to challenge Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for the gavel during Wednesday’s internal House GOP elections, four sources familiar with the matter told The Hill.
The sources — who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal deliberations — said the conservatives are planning to nominate an alternative candidate to Johnson for Speaker during Wednesday’s internal GOP elections.
The sources said they are still discussing who to nominate, and one source cautioned that the opposition could fall apart.
“There will be a nomination,” one of the sources said.
elect Trump — who has spoken highly of him in the past — on his way to the White House.
Johnson thinks he will retain the Speakership on the first ballot. Mebbe. Mebbe not. Kevin McCarthy was confident about a lot of things, too. You see how he got splayed and fried like a catfish.
During an interview on Fox News over the weekend, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said there are “a lot of Republicans” who are concerned with Johnson’s leadership effort.
“Mike Johnson is going to have to demonstrate that he can corral this Republican conference to deliver for the American people and deliver for President Trump. That needs to happen over the next several weeks,” Roy said. “And I’m gonna be sitting down with Mike this week, sitting down with other members of the conference, but we have no choice but to deliver.”
“We’ve got to deliver, no more excuses. That’s what I want to hear out of the Speaker. But he’s got a lot of Republicans who are still concerned,” he added. “We’ve got to figure out how to get everybody on the same page.”
In other words, they want a miracle worker. And they don’t have one. Nancy Pelosi was like an Olympic-level ice skater. She made it look easy. She never put a bill up there unless she had the votes. She and Harry Reid knew how to make things sail along. That takes a level of statesmanship and insight on the governing of your conference which Johnson has absolutely none of. He doesn’t even have a concept of what that is.
Mitch McConnell also knew how all this worked. He had it down. But Mike Johnson is not Mitch McConnell. Or Harry Reid, or Chuck Schumer, or Nancy Pelosi. He’s some poor schmuck that got pulled out of the chorus line and shoved into the lead in the show. He’s always been a figure that evokes pathos.
Get the popcorn. Political Theatre is raising the curtain soon.
I like the taco stand comment. Being from Louisiana Johnson could add Cajun style tacos to McCarthy’s offerings. I’d think in CA they’d go over well.
I’d forgotten this level of conflict, incompetence, and ineptitude was normal under Dimwit Donny.
Welcome back to 2016, but more-so.
Another christo-fascist on the fast track to Hell.