2024-03-25 22:26:42
At a time when Republicans want voters to give them More power, by putting them in control of the Senate and the White House through November ballots, let’s look at the job they’ve done running the House. 118th Congress, first under the Speaker Kevin McCarthy and now mike johnson, There really was a do-nothing Congress, responsible for the anemia 47 laws; The original do-nothing Congress that Harry Truman ran against in the 1940s actually passed 906 Banknotes. And some of the bills passed by the current GOP majority are simply meant to keep the government open, with Johnson and company once again bringing the country to the brink of a shutdown before Congress passed a $1.2 trillion bill just after 2 a.m. Saturday. .
Johnson, of course, is way over his head, having managed to jump from the backbench to the highest ranking official in the House of Representatives after three Republicans with more leadership experience failed to get the votes. What pushed Johnson over the top was not his legislative talent nor his skill at counting votes, but the work he did with Donald TrumpJohnson’s election postponement plan promoted the fringe “independent state legislature” theory that even Trump’s Supreme Court struck down. This is the person the Republicans unanimously chose for Speaker, which is a very difficult gig, even if Nancy Pelosi Made it look easy.
Johnson’s ascension came weeks after McCarthy was ousted by the Gatt Eight for passing a debt-limiting deal and helping prevent the economy from collapsing (though it may also have been payback from Matt Gaetz to the Congressional Ethics Investigation). And now Johnson finds himself potentially on the chopping block for keeping the government funded. Marjorie Taylor Green, A charter member of the burn-it-all GOP convention filed to remove Johnson after the spending package passed.
“I filed for an eviction today, but it’s more of a warning and a pink slip,” Green told reporters Friday. It was a statement that in typical MTG fashion made no sense; Something that is a pink slip is very much not a warning but a firing. Green, a former McCarthy ally who opposed his impeachment, added that she “didn’t want to bring pain to our conference and throw the house into chaos.”
Successfully! Green’s offer to vacate was the subject of a conversation on Sunday’s shows with the CNN network Jake Tapper asking Chip Roy If he supports it. Roy “suggested that Johnson would not put a bill authorizing funding for Ukraine on the floor of the House of Representatives when answering a question,” the hill I mentioned
Congress is on recess for two weeks, so maybe Green will forget about it. But the mood was somber as members of the House and Senate left Washington, as Punchbowl summed it up in Monday’s bulletin headline: “Everybody’s mad at each other.” as John Bresnahan Wrote, “The 118th Congress is the least productive in decades. And everyone left town mad doing the bare minimum legislatively with the November election.”
The bad news about Johnson is that he’s a Trumpist – that is, he doesn’t really believe in democratic norms and cares more about his religion than your rights. But the good news about Johnson is that he is truly terrible at being speaker and his majority continues to shrink. This is another case of American democracy being saved by the handlessness of Trumpists and not by institutional guardrails.
House Republicans, who held a five-seat majority six months ago, will soon have just one vote left. Mike Gallagher recently announced that he would leave early, a departure that would follow those of McCarthy, George Santos (although not by choice), f Ken Buck, who expressed his disgust on the way out.
“This is the worst year in the nine years and three months I’ve been in Congress, and after talking to former friends, it’s the worst year in 40, 50 years of being in Congress,” said Buck, who criticized his. A party that tried to oust Joe Biden Although he does not have any evidence of wrongdoing. “We took an impeachment, and turned it into a social media issue as opposed to a constitutional concept – this place continues to decline, and I don’t need to spend any more time here.”
Chairmen of the House Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Mark Green announced last month that they will not seek re-election, yet Kay Granger, She also won’t run for re-election, planning to give up her position as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee early. Members of Congress with powerful committee positions tend not to leave those positions. McCarthy, for all his mistakes, has managed to keep his caucus together. Not so As for Johnson.
Johnson made a breathtaking number of unforced errors along the way. He decided not to whip a vote against the removal of con artist and accidental comic book genius George Santos, and even though the entire House GOP leadership voted against his impeachment, Santos ultimately didn’t have the numbers to stay. It made the leadership look incompetent. Maybe it was a case of good old fashioned math being more helpful than prayers? Johnson later said it was a “sad day,” and with that, he completely gave up the moral high ground after kicking out a friend.
And then there’s the vibe-based impeachment campaign against Biden, launched by the twice-impeached ex-guy. until the removal of a star Alexander Smirnov, Accused of lying about the Bidens, he was described as a “fraudster” in a previous case and was known to have credibility issues. And then there’s the removal of Alejandro Mayorx, A trick that, while it passes with one vote in the House of Representatives, is unlikely to get anywhere in the Senate. as a democrat Glen Ivy told God New York Times, “I think the dog caught the truck here; they’re stuck and they don’t know how to move forward.”
Once again, the Republicans let Trump drive the party straight into the ditch. However, McCarthy, on CBS this past weekend, urged Republicans to “just move forward” with the slim majority they still have. “Don’t be afraid of an eviction,” McCarthy said Face the nation On Sunday. “I don’t think they can do it again.”
Okay, but one should never doubt the committee’s ability to self-immolate everything.
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