There’s something deeply cynical about asking God to solve a problem that you’re not willing to solve yourself. That’s not “prayer.” That’s perpetrating a fiendish con to cover your profit off the assault rifle body count.
Aaron Rupar:
New House #Speaker Mike Johnson offers prayers in response to the latest horrible mass #shooting. Can't believe nobody has thought of that before.
Just asked Sen John #Fetterman for his thoughts on new House #Speaker Mike Johnson
Fetterman: “MAGA loves a big Johnson”
“He's absolutely even more nuttier than I ever would have dreamed with some of the things he says. I'm appalled with some of his views…..congratulations to all of them”
A vote for Jim Jordan is almost certainly a vote for a shutdown in like 30 days. That should probably be mentioned in some of the reporting on this shitshow. #speaker#gopindisarray#gop#jimjordan
Unreal. For those of you who insist there are “moderates” in the Republican Fascist Party, and I’ve never agreed with that, looks like more and more are now supporting #GymJordan for #Speaker. Via Angry Staffer:
Jim Jordan is pretty much worst-case scenario, so naturally that’s who the GOP is coalescing around 1/…
Let’s be clear: Mike Johnson led 125 House GOP colleagues in asking SCOTUS to disenfranchise every voter in GA, MI, WI, and PA — thereby making Trump president. Johnson calls himself a “constitutional lawyer” but he was really just another Trumpian enemy of democracy. #speaker
"We absolutely reject the offensive accusation that gun crime is uniquely high in the United States because of Americans' 'hearts.' Gun crime is uniquely high in the United States because congressional Republicans have spent decades choosing the gun industry's lobbyists over the lives of innocent Americans."
So this is the #Speaker of the House of Representatives. Not the guest speaker for lay Sunday at your church.
Acyn:
Johnson: I believe that scripture and the bible is very clear that god is the one that raised up each of you and god has allowed us to be brought here to this specific moment and time.
The LA Times is asking if Republicans are now so anti-government, they can no longer govern. The answer is obvious. At this point, we must ask: has the GOP become so anti-democracy, it no longer wants America to exist?
If any of the DC press corps sees this, I will venmo ten (10) bucks to any reporter with the balls to ask any Republican congressmember "Do you see any correlation between your political party's inability to agree on a #speaker and the fact that that same political party is 100% constitutionally composed of disagreeable intolerant assholes who are ideologically opposed to actual problem-solving?"
I asked Rep Don Bacon (R-NE) if the House GOP requires any #Speaker to be a 2020 election denier. He said no… but then acknowledged it remains a divisive issue that is splintering the House GOP.
Bacon says he believes the results of the 2020 election
Yes, Rep Bacon says he’ll vote for Rep Johnson to be speaker. Other House Republicans, including Rep Ralph Norman (R-SC) predict overwhelming, if not unanimous, GOP vote for Johnson
Seven of these nine candidates voted to decertify the 2020 election results ... in the hours after the US Capitol siege
Rep. Elise Stefanik:
Today at noon was the deadline for announced candidates for #Speaker.
Official Announced Candidates to the House Republican Conference include:
Jack Bergman (MI)
Byron Donalds (FL)
Tom Emmer (MN)
Kevin Hern (OK)
Mike Johnson (LA)
Dan Meuser (PA)
Gary Palmer (AL)
Austin Scott (GA)
Pete Sessions (TX)
#Republican members of #Congress & state ofcls have displayed the #flag as well, among them #DougMastriano, a PA state senator & a leader of the “Stop the Steal” campaign. The highest-ranking elected ofcl known to show the flag is Rep #MikeJohnson, who hung it at his office last fall shortly after becoming #speaker of the #House.
Honestly, before Dems help, I want #Republicans to confess publicly that for the last 3 Republican Speakers before McCarthy, Pelosi was doing the counting for the boys.
Then MAYBE Dems will think about helping.
Sahil Kapur:
🔥🔥 Rep. Mike Rogers leaves meeting unhappy, says 8 Repub “traitors” (he used the word 4x) have “paralyzed” the House by removing McCarthy. He tells me #Scalise has the same problems & GOP may NEVER get 217 votes for a #Speaker. He says Dems must help.
Marjorie Taylor Greene fails to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson (www.bbc.com)
The House killed the far-right Republican's motion to remove Mike Johnson over support for Ukraine aid.