Originally published at: Johnson Finally Flips Holdouts To Secure Gavel In Prolonged First Vote
After nearly two hours, ferocious whipping and a dark-horse defection, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) secured the gavel on the first ballot. The mood was tense in the House chamber as the vote unfurled; many Freedom Caucus types, who wouldn’t commit to supporting Johnson beforehand, sat in stony silence while their names were called. Three members…
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Hypothesis:
Trump is triggering PTSD.
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There are worse people in the GOP caucus than Johnson. After security briefings last year or so he went in big on aid for Ukraine. Hopefully Thule will be enough of a non-magite that together with Johnson the worst aspects of Trump will be contained until mid-term elections and hopefully enough Dems will win to create a real check on Trump.
Other than that there isn’t much hope at all. I never thought I would live to see the day where I would be placing my hopes on traditional republicans, but at this point they are the only thing separating the country from the wing-nuts and the abyss.
(Hmmm, I believe there was a time, not too long ago, where I thought of traditional Republicans as the wing-nuts.)
This period of time feels strangely like late antiquity, but maybe the early 1930s felt like that as well at the time.
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Tactical win, and a strategic loss for Johnson. looks as if the ungovernable caucus will continue to be ungovernable.
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I’m taking that as plus. There is governing: positive governing, and there is negative governing; perhaps then between the two there is non-governing or ungoverning. I’ll take ungoverning to block.
(I think critical events he can pull things thru - perhaps if only by relying on the Democratis caucus but at least there’s hope for decency when its needed, and the rest of the time I hope they all compete on antics - like wanting non-woke bathrooms in the capital building or something stupid like that, which is better than passing bills to undermine medicare or social security).
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McGovern said. “The good news is they’re dysfunctional, it means they won’t get anything done”
Jim needs to wake up and smell the coffee. The reality of it is, the Biden admin should have gotten rid of these traitors, all of them. Biden failed for exactly the same rational Jim is using now.
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You’re grasping. We keep waiting for the train to derail and it never does. They will find a way to get more than the Democrats ever could because as Jon Stewart said, Republicans find a way while Democrats yap on about norms.
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Not really. When it comes to policymaking, Democrats are the party of compromise and taking half a loaf rather than going hungry. It’s why Democrats actually passed infrastructure legislation, whereas the Republicans are still stuck in infrastructure week.
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Rare to find a mass killer who didn’t start out beating up women.
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Norman and Massie changed their votes to Johnson after huddling with him.
Just what did Johnson promise them? Inquiring minds would like to know.
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Maybe Trump told Johnson - offer them a free night at one of Trump’s properties?
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A resounding BFD to all this contrived, inside-baseball non-story…once tRump tired of his sadistic cat-and-mouse playing with li’l Mikey, and did endorse him last week, it was ballgame.
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Changed votes eh?
Imagine the insanity across the country if ordinary voters could switch votes.
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Hey! We’ll soon be back in the old “Infrastructure Week” days! And, one hopes, the similarly meaningless “Deportation Week” and “Repeal the Social Safety Net!” weeks.
Lots of loose talk, zero action. Any incidental actions challenged in court. That’s Trumpism.
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After nearly two hours, ferocious whipping and a dark-horse defection, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) secured the gavel on the first ballot.
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There were beatings?
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Of something . . .
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Kompromat!
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Johnson flipped the holdouts by promising they would have offices on the ground floor - less chance of window incidents.
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They saw what happened to Virginia Foxx.
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