House Speaker Mike Johnson is imploring his fellow Republicans to stop venting their frustrations in public and bring their complaints to him directly.
Increasingly, they’re ignoring him.
Cracks inside the GOP conference were stark this week as a member of Johnson’s own leadership team openly accused him of lying, rank-and-file Republicans acted unilaterally to force votes and a leadership-backed bill faltered. It’s all underscored by growing worries that the party is on a path towards losing the majority next year.
Fuck you, Mike, you are a public figure with a public job that at least in theory serves the public, and you are really bad at it. Everybody is talking about it, especially your coworkers.
The whole point of congress is to have individual opinions.
Johnson isn’t their boss, they should feel free to speak openly about whatever they want.
They’re operating on political party system who still has to “whip” their members. That said, George Washington’s disdain of political parties is becoming more and more prescient and tangible as time goes on.
Mike Johnson always looks like he’s just been hit by that first stomach knot before explosive diarrhea.
May he and his colleagues perpetually trade a wrathful strain of c. diff
Didn’t they cut the FDA? Just might happen
Holy fuck that’s vicious. And perfect.
Speaker of the House is not a political party position. The House Republicans don’t work for Johnson any more than the House Democrats do. They are supposed to be working for their constituents.
And while there is the need for wheeling and dealing in Washington without announcing everything, really, essentially, the House members should be bringing all of their concerns to the public. That is their fucking job, and Mike Johnson is unamerican for suggesting that they do otherwise.
“Working for constituents”, haha. Good laugh m8, thank you.
Their constituents being, of course, the rich people that fund their campaigns
is he worried itll get into the news he never reads?
That sounds like the sort of content moderation they claim to hate so much
@MicroWave I firmly believe that projecting weakness in the GOP is premature. There’s polling that shows strong support for the 🍊 💩 and his administration and he’s not going to give up the Presidency without violence. As to Mike Johnson, he is the venereal disease that Congress has!
The thing about Trump is that unless he is directly being voted for, his worshippers seem to be less inclined to bother voting. His endorsements have had remarkably little effect when he himself is not running. So they may be weak in midterms. Have to assume there’s a chance.
@jj4211 My inclination is that he will have corrupted the election process, gerrymandering, ICE stormtroopers, military, etc, that no matter the actual election outcome, the Republicans retain control of Congress (both houses)! He’s a criminal and if the midterms go against him, he will be impeached and he knows it. This is a Pres that controls public opinion and he’s not ready to give up the power and he’s ignoring the courts and all other authority. It ends in violence, bloodshed.
So keep things normal? Hide in your shells your spineless fs
any hacktivists in here? i’m trying to help out the cause (gotta keep things legal of course)
Hey glowie. No
I’m not a glowie, I’m an unemployed speech language pathologist/amateur programmer. My name is Neil Crockett
On the off chance that you are a real person, you should consider being significantly more careful with your personal information.
implying anyone here would know what to do with it
i mean i guess one of y’all could google me and find my linkedin
whenever i tell people my whole story people tell me i’m trolling or i’m in the middle of a psychotic break
