Interesting and very troubling story here from RAW STORY with this their headline (formatted
to fit the blog):
“We're wounded: Speaker Johnson struggles to lead GOP after unnecessary purging”
House Republicans are divided over what to do about their internal
divisions – or even whether anything’s the matter at all. Welcome to Speaker
Mike Johnson’s Capitol.
Related updates from CNN here (Johnson
pressured) and here
(Sen. Schumer demands Speaker Johnson
pass the Ukraine aid package).
After a string of recent tactical blunders – from a failed
impeachment vote to pulling the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (or FISA)
reauthorization measure he put on the floor this week – some Republicans in the
House of Representatives are reassessing the successor to deposed Speaker Kevin
McCarthy.
Johnson, Republicans’ replacement speaker, has now been on
the job 114 days. Yet the GOP still feels rudderless. He is hardly a phoenix,
but the GOP is covered in plenty of ashes from the house fire that is the 118th
Congress' Republican conference.
Rep. Doug LaMalfa
(R-CA) told Raw Story: “We're
wounded. I'm not saying that's because of Mike Johnson. It’s because of the
situation we put ourselves in, no matter who came out of that. There's a lot of
things that are out of his immediate control with the suddenness of this
happening.”
Then Raw Story asked LaMalfa: “It feels like there’s a little more unrest. Or that the unrest is now bubbling to the surface?”
LaMalfa responded:
“I think there’s some underground bubbling going on.”
The GOP still hasn’t healed since members ran McCarthy out as Speaker – and then ran him out of Congress.
Even though Johnson hasn’t had his speakership challenged by the gang
of eight who ousted McCarthy, he’s constantly under pressure from every faction
of his fractious conference.
Rep. Chuck
Fleischmann (R-TN) told Raw Story: “In fairness, I think the problem
changes every day, depending on where he's got to focus. Sometimes it's just
the issue of the day. It's just a tough, tough time.”
Johnson’s job is only getting more complicated now that the
2024 election has fully engulfed the U.S. Capitol. Campaign considerations
helped derail a bipartisan Senate border security compromise and cast a broadly
bipartisan foreign aid package – to U.S. allies Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan –
in limbo.
Speaker in empty suit only? Looming over everything,
including Johnson’s speakership, is Trump, who for example,
single-handedly killed the border bill before lawmakers even finished drafting
it as Johnson said it was DOA after Trump told him to kill it and he did.
Full article
continues here:
My 2 Cents: I don’t ordinarily offer advice to the GOP but under
these circumstances it is warranted, and especially if they truly want to serve
good for the nation (which I doubt many of them actually do, except in floor
speeches), then oust Johnson and do the job you were elected to do for: “We the
people.”
It’s just this simple:
Work on bipartisan bills that help our allies in trouble (like Ukraine), try to
help get Israel a cease fire and to stop killing innocents and get the hostages
freed – and then they can just focus on getting Hamas which is proper after
Hamas attached them in October, just stop acting like Hamas with needless
killing of women and children.
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