U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is enjoying a noticeable groundswell of congressional support in his quest to keep his position as Speaker. What’s noteworthy about that support is how much of it is coming from the Democratic party.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) whose Motion to Vacate Johnson’s chair is looming over the Speaker’s head, called attention to how Democratic leadership has rallied behind Johnson.
Greene tweeted a video showing former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who twice impeached President Trump, is now giving her seal of approval to Johnson’s leadership.
The entire Democrat Party is lining up behind Mike Johnson.
First, it was the entire leadership team for the Democrats.
Now, Nancy Pelosi, who impeached President Trump TWICE, has given Johnson her seal of approval.
What deal has been made?? pic.twitter.com/gqUpO9NDjU
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) May 6, 2024
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) echoed Rep. Greene’s concerns about the Uniparty rallying behind Johnson who has delivered very little on behalf of his GOP colleagues while passing numerous big-ticket Democratic items.
Massie shared a video clip of Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) endorsing saving the beleaguered Speaker for “doing the right thing.”
How much more do Republicans need to see to understand Johnson is fully compromised? Democrat Congressman Jerrold Nadler endorses saving Mike Johnson as Speaker.
“We should save him”
“We can’t permit him to be punished for doing the right thing” pic.twitter.com/MkAf47U9Cz— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 6, 2024
The Denver Gazette reports that Rep. Greene met with the Speaker for two hours on Monday to discuss a path forward regarding her Motion to Vacate. It remains unclear whether Johnson was open to the concessions demanded by Greene or whether the congresswoman was willing to drop the Motion to Vacate if Johnson would agree to changes.
Greene’s demands include:
- A vow not to approve any additional aid for Ukraine for the remainder of this Congress.
- Agreeing to pass appropriation bills for Fiscal Year 2025 in 12 individual votes and to implement a 1% funding cut across the board if lawmakers cannot pass spending legislation ahead of the deadline.
- A vow to obey the Hastert rule which requires that legislation pass with a majority of the majority party.
- A funding cut for Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith over his criminal investigation into former President Trump.
Greene is meeting with Johnson again today although the Speaker downplayed their Monday meeting, telling reporters earlier today, “This is not a negotiation. This is how I’ve operated as speaker. I committed to do it before I became speaker, and I’ve been doing this for the last six months.”
Either way, with most House Democrats lining up to defend the Speaker, it’s likely that Greene’s Motion to Vacate will likely fail if a vote is taken this week.
This is not terribly difficult to comprehend. Trump NEEDS Mike Johnson as Speaker to prevent the Democrats from voting to end his candidacy for president via the 14th Amendment.
Mike Johnson is compromised in some way–probably by the Intelligence Community–and is thus compliant with whatever the Uniparty wants.
Democrats enjoy the kink of manipulating a supposedly conservative Republican as Speaker who is not very smart–or principled–by using his compromised status to manage and pass Democrat / Uniparty legislation.
My guess is the Democrats have done some secret polling and discovered that using the 14th Amendment to remove Trump from his quixotic quest for a second term would be a very, very bad move. So the next best thing is to go all dominatrix on Johnson and lead him around on a leash for all to see who has the REAL power in DC. Barack Hussein Obama really loves to humiliate his enemies.
Meanwhile, Michelle Obama is rested, relaxed and waiting on Democrats to toss Joe Biden and anoint her as the 47th president.
Green knows that she is not going to create a Republican House desperately flailing in a Speaker quest. Johnson is too well protected. What she is doing is making it known that he is an apostate who now exists only for the short term benefit of the Party and the Country. He remains as the Speaker because of necessity and unless he does something great and noble he will be replaced as soon as his removal will not become a threat to the Republican majority status. And, furthermore, should the Republicans actually loose the majority he will then immediately join other useless and worthless operatives such as Ryan, Boehner and the disgraced RNC head Ronna McDaniel.