Mike Johnson gets NIGHTMARE news ON AIR over Epstein files

Mike Johnson gets NIGHTMARE news ON AIR over Epstein files

When when are you going to swear in representative electita grava? As soon as we get back to legislative session when Chuck Schumer allows us to turn the lights back on. Why haven’t you done it already? Because this is the way the institution works to I’m following the Pelosi president by the way when my dear friend from Louisiana Julia Lelo was elected to fill the seat of her deceased husband because of co Nancy Pelosi took 25 days to swear her in. By the way, are you saying let me stop you. Are you saying that Nancy Pelosi refused to swear her in earlier? No, I’m say that’s my very point is this is My understanding is that was the date that actually the representative elect Let the time requested. You know, she had obviously heard her. Okay, here’s some more examples. Okay. No, no, but wait a minute. You mentioned the Pelosi president, but Pelosi didn’t delay that. She No, no, let me give you more than Pelosi president. Okay. And what about the Johnson president? You swore to Republicans the day after their election. I’m happy to answer. I’m happy to answer. Pelosi president, Pat Ryan, Joe Simpleinsky. They were elected during an August recess. So 21 days later when the House returned to regular legislative session, they were administered the oath. That’s what we’re doing. We’re not in session right now. Rep. Ghava was elected after the House was out of session. As soon as we return to legislative session, as soon as the Democrats decide to turn the lights back on so we can all get back here, I will administer the oath. You could swear in tomorrow, right? I mean, no, not tomorrow. No, we we couldn’t. We wouldn’t. There there was an exception for two Flidians earlier in this Congress, but the reason was they were duly elected. They had a date set. They flew in all their friends and family and the house went out of session. So, so if she flies in friends and family, then we don’t have a date set. She was elected after. Uh, let me ask. So, if you’re following Mike Johnson’s logic here, the reason that he won’t swear in representative elect is because he’s following the Pelosi president. Only small problem here, then Speaker Pelosi waited 25 days to swear in a lawmaker because that lawmaker asked Pelosi to be sworn in on a specific date. And when John Carl tells that to Mike Johnson, all Johnson can do is immediately try to pivot to something else. Because Johnson’s argument only holds water if you don’t push back. What Mike Johnson has are Fox News talking points, little oneliners that he can trot out on right-wing media, knowing full well that he’ll never be challenged on any of it. He calls it the Pelosi rule. And then Sean Hannity and Laura Ingram and Jesse Waters all nod like little lemmings and nobody bothers to say, “Yeah, Pelosi chose that date because she left it up to the representative elect.” In this instance, the representative elect is begging to be sworn in and you keep saying no. But when John Carl does it, you can see the extent to which Mike Johnson shortcircuits, has no response, and immediately pivots elsewhere. But then, of course, the goalposts move. You see, this is different because when Pelosi did it, the House was in session. But in this instance, the House is out of session. So, it’s totally different. Now, notwithstanding the fact that Mike Johnson himself swore in two Republican lawmakers while the House was out of session just months ago, which should already undermine the entire argument that he’s trotting out here. The broader point is that Republicans will literally make up any rule that suits them in that moment. Remember when Merrick Garland was nominated by Barack Obama to sit on the Supreme Court and Mitch McConnell decided by fiat that the new standard appropo of nothing became you cannot give a hearing to a Supreme Court nominee when the Senate is in a different party than the president during an election year completely made up out of whole cloth. But they needed to put forward any excuse to serve as some tenuous basis to refuse to vote on Obama’s nominee. And frankly, even if it wasn’t an election year, it would have been some other excuse. You can’t give a hearing to a nominee in a cycle where a party opposite the president took any majority in Congress. You can’t have a hearing if there wasn’t a national census within the previous 5 years. You can’t have a hearing if the nominees birthday fell on a Tuesday of that year. It doesn’t matter how nonsensical the excuse is. It doesn’t matter what the excuse is. It doesn’t matter how untethered to reality it is. The point is that they will latch on to any excuse, any words to prevent democracy from working if it is not working in their favor. And look, my thinking all along is that this is a short-sighted strategy by Mike Johnson because at some point he’s going to have to swear in Adita Grahalva and that all he’s doing right now is just buying himself one day at a time. This is just a 24-hour strategy on repeat. But I spoke about the prospect of Mike Johnson indefinitely preventing Grahalva from being sworn in, meaning indefinitely preventing her from being the 218th vote on that discharge petition to force the release of the Epstein files. I spoke about that with Congressman Dan Goldman. Here’s what he had to say. He can’t keep uh Representative Elect Graalva out of the House forever. At some point, he’s going to have to swear her in. May maybe, look, maybe like maybe he’s thinking like, “Oh, try me.” You know, challenge accepted. But the reality is at some point she’s going to have to come in. She will sign this discharge petition. It it we’ll be in a situation where it should then come to the floor for a vote. But even then, I mean, if Mike Johnson is willing to keep her out of the house for as long as he has, almost 3 weeks when usually these representative elects uh are sworn in within 24 hours, then who knows what he’ll do when the rules, the norms stipulate that that a discharge position has to come to the floor. Let me give you an example. Um when Trump implements tariffs uh under some of the statutes, it is required to come before Congress in order to be essentially ratified. Congress gets a say to uh endorse the tariffs and the rationale for the tariffs. And you’ve got it requires I think there are 15 uh session days before it is ripe to come to the floor. Mike Johnson literally put in one of the rules that they Republicans generally have to pass in order to bring a bill to the floor for a simple majority vote. He literally put in the rules that the clock on that particular bill introduced by uh House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Greg Meeks would stop. So it would never get to 15 days and it would never be ripe for a vote so that the Republicans would never have to vote on Trump’s tariffs. So that that just shows you the lengths that he will go to to avoid normal process, regular order, and frankly what the statute and law requires uh to protect Donald Trump and to supplicate himself uh to to the president. So again, for these Republicans, when we expect them to play by the rules, we are only exposing ourselves as fools. They’re not playing the same game as us. They are not partners in democracy. They’ll cosplay as a small D democratic party when it suits them and completely abandon democracy when it does not. Here it doesn’t. And frankly, when the left yells, “Well, that’s not fair. Those aren’t the rules.” All we do is expose ourselves as fools. All we do is expose our own naivity because they have told us every which way a thousand times over that they do not care about playing by the rules. Again, we are playing two entirely different games. And the only thing worse than what the GOP is doing is the Democrat’s inability to recognize it, which is why it will not suffice to reason with these people. We have to defeat them. We have to make sure that they never hold power again. This is no way to govern. You wouldn’t get on the soccer field where one team is at full strength and the other team has bricks tied to their ankles, would you? That’s what’s happening here. Democrats will never win against a Republican party for whom rules do not exist. And now those same Republicans are currently in the process of entrenching their majorities forever. 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