#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.”
