The House elected Mike Johnson as Speaker! He was acceptable to everyone, and it settled an embarrassing episode for Republicans. Rep. Johnson will give voice to everyone in the House, and he will listen to the people.
The first thing Rep. Johnson did last night was ask people to pray with him. He received 220 votes.
Many Americans were concerned that Republicans didn’t yet have a speaker of the House. Just the News reported that the crowded GOP House Speaker election got underway on Tuesday with eight candidates marking the third week without a chamber leader. NBC News reported on a plan McCarthy came up with that included Jim Jordan.
NBC News said, “Amid the speaker impasse, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy floated a plan that would reinstall him as Speaker and make conservative Trump ally, Representative Jim Jordan, Republican from Ohio, the assistant Speaker. That is according to three sources familiar with McCarthy’s pitch.
I hate to say this, but I must. It makes me realize we don’t really need Congress the way it was functioning. For three weeks, they haven’t spent money we don’t have, and they haven’t been able to cause too much trouble.
We now have hope!
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Victory? MAGA? That’s laughable. There is no MAGA there, and this will end up being another do-nothing establishment shill. Here we go again.
It seems McCarthy was stabbing all the others in the back and he got caught at it when Johnson called for a roll call vote .I am glad that RINO is out and Mike Johnson got the job MAGA the new party .
He’s toast. The Party of Stupid is already figuring out how much he’s going to hurt their bank accounts.
I will make no assumptions.
Recall we were told repeatedly that Ryan was a fiscal conservative, Barr was a tough law and order man, Graham would straighten out the DOJ in committee, and so on.
How disgraceful it was for McCarthy, who sold out the members in several ways, to again last night try to insert himself again, by inventing the office of assistant speaker.
Jordan suspiciously was favoring plans last night to follow McCarthy’s lead and have Kevin or McHenry be speaker. If it is true that Johnson wants to straighten out the DOJ, that may mean he does not want this lackluster Jordan running committees. If Jordan is removed, then that would be a key sign Jordan was also an impediment to the investigations, which would ad suspicion to Jordan’s desire to delay a vote on Johnson.
They can now get back to spending us into oblivion. Best 3 weeks in US history.Not one cent was appropriated by the Congress.
A good sign would be if Johnson can reduce this ridiculous $106 billion waste. Nothing Biden offers is of any usefulness.
Every presumption depends on what was discussed behind closed doors!