But MSNBC host Rachel Maddow predicted that Johnson’s time as speaker may be limited amid the far-right revolt.
“I’m sure Mr. Johnson is very smart and capable and knows exactly what he’s doing,” Maddow told Stephen Colbert on Tuesday. “But he got this job because the previous guy was driven with pitchforks and torches for having had the temerity to speak to political opponents rather than just wishing them dead. And now he needs his political opponents in order to keep his job. I just, we all know how this ends! This is not a party that is trying to govern.”
Shouldn’t Steve Bannon be in jail?
I guess the MAGA Republicans have been getting some really harsh calls from the Kremlin.
Why is Bannon trying to talk like a grammatically-challenged edgy teenager? Oh that’s right bc that’s the mentality of the people who listen to Bannon.
The governance of the country appears to be a very low priority for these people, which is probably for the best as they have pathetically few, if any, of the skills required.
Has MAGA started calling in bomb threats to Johnson’s 3rd grade teacher’s nursing home yet?
Republicans want us all to suffer.
>Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, was among the conservatives who opposed Johnson’s two-step stopgap bill, calling the suspension “asinine.” “We’ll see,” he said to reporters when asked if the caucus would retaliate against Johnson the same way they ousted former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. “I tend to try to give people grace. I gave Kevin grace, I give Mike grace. Tough job. But I strongly disagree with this play call.”
Tens of thousands of peoples’ livelihoods, and it’s just a fucking game to these fucknuggets.
I guess it depends on how you define “victory”. Does he want progress and some small semblance of governance or does he want chaos, confusion and stagnation in order to score political points with the feeble-minded?
Don’t answer that. Totally rhetorical!
Welcome to politics, where to have to work with people you don’t like to get things you want.
MAGA Mike isn’t MAGA *ENOUGH*?!
@Salon stop reporting anything Steve Bannon says as news
@All American News Outlets: stop reporting BS said on Twitter as News and stop calling it X
I think people are underestimating the degree to which McCarthy was and is detested by virtually anybody and everybody who has ever had any interaction with him, without regard to political persuasion.
Johnson has core beliefs and policy goals that I detest and think are completely wrong, but at least he has them.
McCarthy has zero core principals other than his desire to be made speaker, and he was willing to grovel and agree to anything necessary to achieve that.
It does not appear to me that Johnson even wanted the job–he can just resign on principle and not lose his base of completely bonkers Christian nationalist voters in Louisiana.
He also has sort of a “Nixon to China” advantage in that nobody can question his credentials as a part of the looney right.
He may be around for awhile.
You all UNANIMOUSLY voted for him to be speaker of the house. You only have yourselves to blame if you hate what he’s doing as speaker.
“Americans gave House Republicans the majority to champion fiscal responsibility,” tweeted Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga. “We cannot surrender in the fight to save our nation’s financial future.”
Let’s be real. We have a national debt program. Everyone knows it. The national deficit has risen under every President, Republican and Democrat.
The last time in US history that our budget was balanced was almost 200 years ago, in 1835, when President Andrew Jackson was in office.
If “Americans gave House Republicans the majority to champion fiscal responsibility”, then they:
•should support funding the IRS to audit and collect
back taxes from millionaires, but they don’t:
•agree to make the tax system fairer, but they
don’t;
•should stop giving corporations tax cuts, but they
won’t.
Republicans are not serious people. Cutting Social Security and Medicare is not a serious plan.
> “When 209 Hakeem Jeffries-loving Democrats vote for something, it just doesn’t feel like a victory. I’m not feeling victorious right now.
The fact that 109 Dems voted for something and that means it’s inherently wrong *just might* be the problem in government today.
I feel like if Biden continues to act like an adult, continues to insist on engaging with Republicans, it’s the strongest argument he can make for a second term.
Just look at the contrast; on one side you’ve got this guy who’s message is he wants to make sure everyone gets representation in the government, and on the other side you’ve got ravenous baboons picking fights and throwing stones at each other.
It’s a ridiculous contrast. The key issue of the 2024 election will be, “Do you want a functional government, or do you want a bad reality TV show that you can watch as your future evaporates?”
GOP is mad when they’re party did something not terrible. That should just be the entire political messages from Democrats all of next year.
If the nation is to survive and prosper, the MAGA pestilence must be wiped out.
Their idea of victory is a government shutdown…. Let that sink in.
The GOP has always played the long game and we’re seeing this angst on their part because they’re so close to achieving their long sought victory. For the last 50 years, their goal has been to starve the beast by passing 5 massive tax cuts and running up the debt but blaming it on the Democrats. The GOP has been nominally in charge for the last 50 years, sometime holding the Presidency, sometimes Congress, sometimes both. During those 50 years they’ve dramatically cut taxes for the wealthy while at the same time increasing defense spending. On top of the tax cuts, they got us into two unfunded wars that added trillions to the debt. They now have half the country convinced that they need to radically cut spending and that Social Security and Medicare are unsustainable. What they never talk about is that government spending is an investment in America. The Eisenhower Interstate Highway Bill cost about a half a billion dollars but returned over three trillion dollars in economic benefit. Investments in NASA over the years has returned a whopping $40 for every dollar spent, and that’s probably a low estimate given the technology advancements and the resulting productivity gains. Unfortunately, Americans aren’t very bright and would rather believe stories of scary brown hoards swarming over the border trying to take their jobs. The whole thing makes me ill.
Because causing us to go into default would be a victory apparently… smdh
Republicans want the elderly like my parents to be homeless because they can’t get their SS checks to help pay their rent.
What exactly does victory look like to these fucknuggets? As far as I can tell from their demands it seems to be laws allowing them to hunt and kill anyone they think is weird and a complete cessation of all regulations. They are demanding to live in a hellscape.
We’re pretty fucked if keeping the nation running needs to feel like a victory.
“This don’t feel like a victory, bro”
JFC….it’s definitely not a victory for grammar school.
“Don’t” think MAGA understands contractions
Maybe they should fire him, like they did the last guy. You know, to prove they can govern.
Modern Republican politicians still cannot accept the simple fact that their job actually requires them to try to operate a core government function, because all they want to do is engage in never-ending publicity stunts and rage on Fox News or right-wing conspiracy theory radio and podcasts.
I mean, at this point MAGA’s whole, simple, painfully simple and equally stupid plan is just, “Shut the government down for 🤷, hurt the country? THAT’S their whole strategy to sink Democrats in 2024?
Republicans sink the government, crash the economy and then the people will blame Biden and Democrats while Trump just waltzes into a second term?
Truly, all the big brains are on the Right.
Are republicans to do this with every spending bill now? What a dumb precedent.
Why tf does Bannon’s name even appear in this article?
These people have no interest in actual governance
It’s not a victory for republicans unless someone they don’t like is getting hurt.
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But MSNBC host Rachel Maddow predicted that Johnson’s time as speaker may be limited amid the far-right revolt.
“I’m sure Mr. Johnson is very smart and capable and knows exactly what he’s doing,” Maddow told Stephen Colbert on Tuesday. “But he got this job because the previous guy was driven with pitchforks and torches for having had the temerity to speak to political opponents rather than just wishing them dead. And now he needs his political opponents in order to keep his job. I just, we all know how this ends! This is not a party that is trying to govern.”
Shouldn’t Steve Bannon be in jail?
I guess the MAGA Republicans have been getting some really harsh calls from the Kremlin.
Why is Bannon trying to talk like a grammatically-challenged edgy teenager? Oh that’s right bc that’s the mentality of the people who listen to Bannon.
The governance of the country appears to be a very low priority for these people, which is probably for the best as they have pathetically few, if any, of the skills required.
Has MAGA started calling in bomb threats to Johnson’s 3rd grade teacher’s nursing home yet?
Republicans want us all to suffer.
>Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, was among the conservatives who opposed Johnson’s two-step stopgap bill, calling the suspension “asinine.” “We’ll see,” he said to reporters when asked if the caucus would retaliate against Johnson the same way they ousted former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. “I tend to try to give people grace. I gave Kevin grace, I give Mike grace. Tough job. But I strongly disagree with this play call.”
Tens of thousands of peoples’ livelihoods, and it’s just a fucking game to these fucknuggets.
I guess it depends on how you define “victory”. Does he want progress and some small semblance of governance or does he want chaos, confusion and stagnation in order to score political points with the feeble-minded?
Don’t answer that. Totally rhetorical!
Welcome to politics, where to have to work with people you don’t like to get things you want.
MAGA Mike isn’t MAGA *ENOUGH*?!
@Salon stop reporting anything Steve Bannon says as news
@All American News Outlets: stop reporting BS said on Twitter as News and stop calling it X
I think people are underestimating the degree to which McCarthy was and is detested by virtually anybody and everybody who has ever had any interaction with him, without regard to political persuasion.
Johnson has core beliefs and policy goals that I detest and think are completely wrong, but at least he has them.
McCarthy has zero core principals other than his desire to be made speaker, and he was willing to grovel and agree to anything necessary to achieve that.
It does not appear to me that Johnson even wanted the job–he can just resign on principle and not lose his base of completely bonkers Christian nationalist voters in Louisiana.
He also has sort of a “Nixon to China” advantage in that nobody can question his credentials as a part of the looney right.
He may be around for awhile.
You all UNANIMOUSLY voted for him to be speaker of the house. You only have yourselves to blame if you hate what he’s doing as speaker.
“Americans gave House Republicans the majority to champion fiscal responsibility,” tweeted Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga. “We cannot surrender in the fight to save our nation’s financial future.”
Let’s be real. We have a national debt program. Everyone knows it. The national deficit has risen under every President, Republican and Democrat.
The last time in US history that our budget was balanced was almost 200 years ago, in 1835, when President Andrew Jackson was in office.
If “Americans gave House Republicans the majority to champion fiscal responsibility”, then they:
•should support funding the IRS to audit and collect
back taxes from millionaires, but they don’t:
•agree to make the tax system fairer, but they
don’t;
•should stop giving corporations tax cuts, but they
won’t.
Republicans are not serious people. Cutting Social Security and Medicare is not a serious plan.
> “When 209 Hakeem Jeffries-loving Democrats vote for something, it just doesn’t feel like a victory. I’m not feeling victorious right now.
The fact that 109 Dems voted for something and that means it’s inherently wrong *just might* be the problem in government today.
I feel like if Biden continues to act like an adult, continues to insist on engaging with Republicans, it’s the strongest argument he can make for a second term.
Just look at the contrast; on one side you’ve got this guy who’s message is he wants to make sure everyone gets representation in the government, and on the other side you’ve got ravenous baboons picking fights and throwing stones at each other.
It’s a ridiculous contrast. The key issue of the 2024 election will be, “Do you want a functional government, or do you want a bad reality TV show that you can watch as your future evaporates?”
GOP is mad when they’re party did something not terrible. That should just be the entire political messages from Democrats all of next year.
If the nation is to survive and prosper, the MAGA pestilence must be wiped out.
Their idea of victory is a government shutdown…. Let that sink in.
The GOP has always played the long game and we’re seeing this angst on their part because they’re so close to achieving their long sought victory. For the last 50 years, their goal has been to starve the beast by passing 5 massive tax cuts and running up the debt but blaming it on the Democrats. The GOP has been nominally in charge for the last 50 years, sometime holding the Presidency, sometimes Congress, sometimes both. During those 50 years they’ve dramatically cut taxes for the wealthy while at the same time increasing defense spending. On top of the tax cuts, they got us into two unfunded wars that added trillions to the debt. They now have half the country convinced that they need to radically cut spending and that Social Security and Medicare are unsustainable. What they never talk about is that government spending is an investment in America. The Eisenhower Interstate Highway Bill cost about a half a billion dollars but returned over three trillion dollars in economic benefit. Investments in NASA over the years has returned a whopping $40 for every dollar spent, and that’s probably a low estimate given the technology advancements and the resulting productivity gains. Unfortunately, Americans aren’t very bright and would rather believe stories of scary brown hoards swarming over the border trying to take their jobs. The whole thing makes me ill.
Because causing us to go into default would be a victory apparently… smdh
Republicans want the elderly like my parents to be homeless because they can’t get their SS checks to help pay their rent.
What exactly does victory look like to these fucknuggets? As far as I can tell from their demands it seems to be laws allowing them to hunt and kill anyone they think is weird and a complete cessation of all regulations. They are demanding to live in a hellscape.
We’re pretty fucked if keeping the nation running needs to feel like a victory.
“This don’t feel like a victory, bro”
JFC….it’s definitely not a victory for grammar school.
“Don’t” think MAGA understands contractions
Maybe they should fire him, like they did the last guy. You know, to prove they can govern.
Modern Republican politicians still cannot accept the simple fact that their job actually requires them to try to operate a core government function, because all they want to do is engage in never-ending publicity stunts and rage on Fox News or right-wing conspiracy theory radio and podcasts.
I mean, at this point MAGA’s whole, simple, painfully simple and equally stupid plan is just, “Shut the government down for 🤷, hurt the country? THAT’S their whole strategy to sink Democrats in 2024?
Republicans sink the government, crash the economy and then the people will blame Biden and Democrats while Trump just waltzes into a second term?
Truly, all the big brains are on the Right.
Are republicans to do this with every spending bill now? What a dumb precedent.
Why tf does Bannon’s name even appear in this article?
These people have no interest in actual governance
It’s not a victory for republicans unless someone they don’t like is getting hurt.