Republicans have at long last elected a House speaker: Representative Mike Johnson, a fundamentalist Christian who was also once called a key “architect” in Congress’s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.
Johnson finally secured the speaker’s gavel after Republican infighting left the House without a speaker for 22 days. He secured 220 votes.
Johnson is a four-term congressman representing Louisiana. His win also represents the rise of the MAGA front in the Republican Party. Earlier Wednesday morning, Donald Trump endorsed Johnson as House speaker—after quickly killing Mike Emmer’s nomination the day before.
When McCarthy was removed, I thought it was a mistake for Democrats not to support him. Now this new guy does seem worse. I guess we’ll know soon enough, when it’s time to avert a shutdown again.
Not in any reality are democrats responsible for this self imposed dumpster fire. This is the birth of a fascist movement. Im reminded of after trump was elected the entire media blamed democrats for being too mean to republicans like calling the “deplorable” and giving them a pass because republicans had “economic anxiety”…blech!🤮 Fascists vote in fascists because they like fascism.
Democrats have every reason to let Republicans boil in their own vomit. They do need to do something about the coming government shut down and get Ukraine funding back. And let’s face it, they want to fund Israel’s military operations, too.
They could afford to wait a bit, though. They got a few weeks of news cycles that were nothing but Republican dysfunction. All they had to do was vote out McCarthy and pop open a beer.
Old boss is always a dick until you meet the new one.
The fact that McCarthy went back on promises to Democrats because of demands from the far right fringe made him too untrustworthy to Democrats, I don’t see how they could vote for him.
Eh, fuck him.
Let the “moderate” Republicans eat cake.