#HouseRepublicans pick #TomEmmer as 3rd #speaker nom
#Emmer (MN), the #House maj whip, was elected as the #GOP pick on a 5th ballot in an internal race that drew 9 #Republicans. It’s not clear, however, that he has enough support to be elected on the House floor. To prevail, Emmer would need a majority of the full chamber.
Emmer, who has been in #Congress since 2015, previously chaired the #National Republican Congressional Cmte — the House campaign arm — for 4 yrs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/24/house-speaker-vote/
So about an hour after #TomEmmer got the nomination from #HouseRepublicans for #House #speaker, he dropped out.
Now, even crazier than crazy, the latest idea is freaking McCarthy back in the job but with Jim Jordan as his “assistant” - whatever that means.
Utter nonsense.
Has anyone told these jackasses that #Congress isn’t MTV’sRealWorld?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/house-republicans-choose-new-speaker-nominee-live-updates-rcna121674/rcrd22879?canonicalCard=true
This is the only appropriate reaction to the above news re the latest #HouseRepublicans #Speaker plan of a #KevinMcCarthy #JimJordan #speakership.
❤️ @joyannreid
#JoyReid #TheReidOut
@MSNBC
#Congress #Republicans #dysfunction #PublicDisservice #GymJordan #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #MAGA #anarchists #WeaponizationOfGovernment
here’s their 4th choice:
Rep #MikeJohnson (R-LA) was “elected” the #Republican #speaker nominee Tues in an internal vote by the #GOP conference.
Johnson is an attorney & former talk radio host who has served in the #House since 2017 & is the vice chair of the #HouseRepublican conference.
#Congress #Republicans #HouseRepublicans #dysfunction #PublicDisservice #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #MAGA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/24/house-speaker-vote/
#MikeJohnson served as a member of #Trump's #legal defense team during both the 2019 & 2020 impeachments.
#Johnson signed, along w/126 other #Republicans, an amicus brief in support of the BS #KenPaxton #SCOTUS case Texas v. Pennsylvania challenging President Joe #Biden’s victory (the Supreme Court declined to even hear the case).
Johnson opposes the #Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized #SameSexMarriage.
#Extremism #MAGA #House #speaker #Congress #dysfunction #ChaosCaucus
#MikeJohnson was for #Trump’s #MuslimBan.
He is anti-#abortion, & supports a federal #AbortionBan.
#Johnson INTRODUCED the 2022 Stop the Sexualization of Children Act, which would prohibit federally funded institutions, including #PublicSchools & #libraries, from even mentioning #GenderIdentity.
He wants *Christian* prayer in schools (no other religions can pray tho).
#MaleSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism #Heterosexism #Extremism #MAGA #House #speaker #Congress #Republicans #GOP
Rep #MikeJohnson is “#JimJordan in a sports coat,” says Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte. “Electing him as #Speaker would represent how the #Republican conference has completely given in to the most #extreme #fringes of their party & embraced an agenda that promotes a total, #nationwide #AbortionBan, espouses #ConspiracyTheories, & cutting #SocialSecurity & #Medicare,” said DCCC #spox Viet Shelton in a Wed stmnt.
#MaleSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism #Heterosexism #MAGA #House #GOP
#MikeJohnson, who serves on the #House Armed Srvcs Cmte, was 1 / 57 lawmakers — all #Republicans — who voted against a May $39.8B #aid package for #Ukraine.
#Johnson explained his opposition by saying that the #UnitedStates “should not be sending another $40B abroad when our own #border is in chaos, American mothers are struggling to find baby formula, gas prices are at record highs, & American families are struggling to make ends meet, w/o sufficient oversight over where the money will go.”
#MikeJohnson has also called for more oversight of the #aid sent to #Ukraine — totaling >$60B to date. In Feb, following a House Armed Services Cmte hearing on the topic, he tweeted that American taxpayers “deserve to know if the Ukrainian govt is being entirely forthcoming & transparent about the use of this massive sum of taxpayer resources.”
#Nationalism #ConspiracyTheories #FearMongering #Extremism #MAGA #racism #House #Republicans #Speaker
Despite the fact that #MikeJohnson is opposed to both #SocialSecurity & #Medicare / #Medicaid, he represents one of the #poorest congressional districts in the nation. Acc/to an analysis of U.S. #Census data by the Center for American Progress, >160k people in #Louisiana’s 4th Congressional District were living in #poverty in 2022. That’s about 22% of all district residents.
#Congress #House #Speaker #HouseRepublicans #Republicans #GOP #ChaosCaucus #ConspiracyTheories #Extremism #MAGA
Well he won.
#MikeJohnson of Louisiana only needed 215, he’s got more than that now. M
It’s gonna suck.
#Congress #House #Speaker #HouseRepublicans #Republicans #GOP #ChaosCaucus #ConspiracyTheories #Extremism #MAGA
#Nationalism #FearMongering #racism
#MaleSupremacy #ChristianNationalism #Heterosexism
#MikeJohnson’s speech is laden w/ #Christian dogma. He clearly doesn’t believe in the separation of church & state.
He’s hit upon almost all of his above mentioned #extremist beliefs. He’s mentioned the #border, government #funding for #SocialPrograms, Christianity, Christianity & #Christianity.
#House #speaker #Congress #Republicans #GOP #MAGA #Nationalism #ChristianNationalism #ConspiracyTheories #Extremism #racism #MaleSupremacy #Heterosexism
For ~18 months, #Speaker #MikeJohnson, along w/his wife, Kelly Johnson, have hosted a podcast that explores their #faith & #politics, touching on a wide range of subjects incl’g the congressional effort to overturn the #2020election results, #SCOTUS’s decision overturning the right to #abortion & #Trump’s #legal woes.
#Congress #Republicans #MAGA
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/25/us/house-speaker-vote-mike-johnson/johnson-and-his-wife-host-a-podcast-on-faith-and-politics?smid=url-share
The 69 episode podcast, offer a window into #MikeJohnson's views…. In it, the… #speaker, an #evangelical #Christian, talks at length about his vehement opposition to #AbortionRights, calls the #Democratic agenda #socialist, & rails against the prosecution of #Trump for his #ElectionInterference efforts.
“You have a Democrat county prosecutor there who is engaging in, just, stagecraft,” #Johnson said on the podcast in Aug, after Trump was criminally charged in #FultonCounty, #Georgia.
In the episode, #MikeJohnson said it was an “outrageous development” & complained that #Trump had to surrender to the county jail on “completely bogus charges.”
The first episode of the program, published in March 2022, was titled, “Can America be Saved?” (Presumably by Jesus)
“We call this show ‘Truth Be Told’ because that’s what we are going to do on this program,” #Johnson said in the opening episode.
#HouseRepublicans #Republicans #GOP #MAGA #extremism #Congress
Full remarks: #MikeJohnson speaks after being elected #House #speaker
#Republicans #GOP #HouseRepublicans #MAGA #Extremism #Congress #ChaosCaucus #ConspiracyTheories #evangelist #Nationalism #ChristianNationalism #racism #MaleSupremacy #Heterosexism
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/full-remarks-mike-johnson-speaks-after-being-elected-house-speaker-196392005884
More on #MikeJohnson’s #extremist #evangelical podcast:
The podcast featured numerous guests including #JimJordan, #Johnson’s mentor; Judge #KyleDuncan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the #FifthCircuit (the most conservative in the #UnitedStates) & some of the Johnsons’ (many) children.
After the leak of #SCOTUS’s decision on #abortion in May of last year, the Johnsons hosted an episode that explored the “future of life in America,” while also sharing their personal jubilation about the news.
“This is … finally the chance we have to overturn the atrocity of #RoeVWade,” #Johnson said. He said his phone had been ringing constantly because of his career in constitutional law working on abortion cases for #conservative groups. #MikeJohnson said #Roe had given “constitutional cover to the elective killing of unborn children in America.”
About a year ago, after #Republicans underperformed expectations in the midterms, #MikeJohnson discussed how his allies were feeling “dejected & depressed.” But he spoke optimistically about Republicans regaining control of the #House, & the ramifications.
“We will stop the #socialist agenda, we will control the purse strings, & you will see some pretty vigorous investigations & oversight because that is a really important responsibility of the #Congress in our constitutional system,” he said.
@Nonilex so another nasty typical fascist on the ruling elites payroll.
@Dandomino a typical fascist promoting policies of transferring power down from where it's been concentrated?
Fascinating...
