Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday officially triggered a vote on her motion to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson, but within minutes it was overwhelmingly rejected.
Probably America responding to Rep Greene's ~love~ of America...
Tuff Darts - [Your Love Is Like] Nuclear Waste (1978)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt...
...
I'd rather crawl through poison ivy
or grab high tensions wires
cut my legs off at the knees
or set myself on fire
Than have to feel your charms
closing in around me
or feel your slimy kisses covering my body
Your love is like a nuclear waste
your body is a danger to the human race
they should stamp contaminated right across your face
your love is like a nuclear waste
I'd rather stick my tongue into a vat
drink ex-lax all day long
or have to chew on razor blades
or--------- to king kong
Than have to be between the sheets with you for any time
or have to feel your scaly flesh moving onto mine
...
@#11 ... I wonder who the 43 were? And the 7 too chicken to vote? ...
It took some digging due to the recency, but here is what I found...
Roll Call 188 | Bill Number: H. Res. 1209
clerk.house.gov
... Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant ...
All individual votes are shown.
What country is she speaking about?
Certainly not the United States of America.
#3 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER
You aren't really paying attention are you.
www.nytimes.com
You need to understand how the Republicans are thinking if you are going to defeat them, this is why the current tribalism is losing for the Democrats, they aren't offering to fix anything other than other countries. The rest of America is watching this and wondering.
Your thread on AirportCulture is directly related, the question is can you understand the relationship.
@#22 ... How many bills has the Republican lead house passed in a year and a half? ...
You mean this?
Republican Congressman Melts Down Asking What His Party's Even Doing (November 2023)
www.yahoo.com
... Representative Chip Roy went scorched earth on his Republican colleagues on Wednesday, haranguing them for years wasted on inaction and chaos as opposed to doing their jobs.
The Texas Republican and Freedom Caucus member spent his time on the House floor on Wednesday shouting and wildly gesticulating at his caucus, condemning them for capitulating on promises by working with Democrats and lamenting the party's transparently vacuous approach to building a border wall.
"One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing. One. That I can go campaign on and say we did," Roy said. "One!"
"Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done besides well, I guess it's not as bad as the Democrats,'" Roy lamented. ...
That sort of thing?
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#45 | Posted by CutiePie at 2024-05-10 08:15 PM
A good article on the many reasons for the working relationship :
www.thedailybeast.com - Congress' Odd Couple - Jeffries and Johnson - Mystifies Lawmakers - May 06, 2024
|------- The GOP speaker and the Democratic leader have a totally unique political relationship. Do they have any personal relationship at all?
... Jeffries told reporters in February that he had a "functional relationship" with Johnson. The Speaker, meanwhile, has said hardly anything. In public, they aren't afraid to besmirch each other for political points, as opposing leaders typically do. ...
... But one stark political truth has bound them together: No Speaker has ever needed a Minority Leader more than Johnson needs Jeffries.
... The passage of that aid package set into motion the most dramatic way Jeffries will help Johnson: by saving his job.
... Johnson seems to have tacitly accepted the painful political truth that he cannot advance any meaningful legislation with his fractured conference alone. That's a fact Jeffries has embraced, stepping in to save the day when, of course, there's something in it for the blue team. ...
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No one, except Gaetz-MTG-Boebert++, needs more chaos in Congress at this point - if there's any emergency bill that needs passing, the only way it can be done is with two leaders assuring majority of votes and ability to bring the bill to vote. Hence, synergy - when and where it can be accomplished.
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