Speaker Mike Johnson has once again lost a battle against hardline conservatives for control of his own House floor — and he has no clear way out.
A small group of GOP hardliners, led by firebrand Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, effectively seized the floor from Johnson this week, refusing to allow him to move on their own party’s priorities until Republican leaders come up with a plan to pass President Donald Trump’s federal elections overhaul bill.
By Tuesday afternoon, Johnson was forced into one of the most humiliating possible positions for a House speaker: He conceded he could not regain control of the chamber and instructed members to leave Washington early. It’s the second straight week that GOP leaders have had to scrap their plans, this time losing out on nearly an entire week’s agenda.
They work six months out of the year for six figures and they get to go home early, what a country
Reminds me of Eric Cartman. “Screw you guys. I’m going home.”
If democrats were smart…they’d take advantage of republican disunity and move to vacate the speaker’s seat…
Jeffries may not be my favorite democrat, but he did manage to keep the party together for how many votes last time?
I’m all for screwing with Johnson in every way possible, but let’s not get excited about Jeffries. We elected Biden to deal with MAGA, and he and the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries helped them get right back into office.
Jeffries had his chance, and he did a piss poor job of it. He’s doesn’t get a second chance. What he should get, along with his buddy Schmuck, is a Congressional subpoena, to find out which Sociopathic Oligarchs paid him to not offer any resistance to MAGA at all.
Don’t get me wrong, if he’s the nominee, I’m voting for him enthusiastically. I don’t care who the nominee is, if it’s not a republican they’re getting my vote…
I want someone with the ability to hold the democrats together, right now, that’s first and foremost. Defeating MAGA is #1 - #10 priorities…everything else is secondary…
I keep hearing that punishing MAGA should not be the priority, but they are wrong. Whatever agenda they want to pursue, and we all have our favorite issues - mine are healthcare and student loan an forgiveness/tuition reform, among others - but we will NEVER achieve them if the MAGA Poltergeists are running around gleefully fucking everything up because CHAOS IS FUN! AND PROFITABLE!
The FIRST order of business is to crush MAGA ruthlessly, punish them mercilessly for every one of their many crimes, and then viciously purge them from our government and our society. After that, we deal with the Sociopathic Oligarchs, and OUR money.
Only then can we finally pursue an agenda that serves the Citizens.
There really needs to be some way for the minority party to step in and do the work if the majority cannot function.
In Canada we call an election.
The problem is that the American system isn’t parliamentary. There isn’t a button to push to reset Congress.
Like in a bowling alley, when the ball doesn’t trip the sensor and the pins don’t reset…canada has that for government?
I want one!
Pretty much. If the current party in power is not able to gain sufficient support for confidence motions (there are a number of things that qualify as a confidence motion, the budget being a big one) Then the Governor General (the official representative of the King / Queen) can offer control to another party if they ARE able to gather that support, or simply call an election.
Technically the (currently King) is our head of state, but for most functions our Prime Minister fills that role. The current government losing confidence of parliament is one of the functions where the King still holds de facto power in addition to de jure power.
Note that while they are titles held by the same person, the titles of King of Canada and King of the United Kingdom are legally distinct, and while referring to his role in Canadian governance, it is appropriate to refer to Charles III as King of Canada specifically, and inappropriate to use his other titles in that context. Mostly because the King of the United Kingdom has no role in our government, but the King of Canada does.
Hereditary monarchy is silly (derogatory)
I think most Canadians would agree. We just don’t care about it enough to try to change it because if something came up where we actually needed to force the issue we could fairly easily, and it has it’s own benefits in being closer allies with other Commonwealth countries.