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.
Prescient implies it wasn’t a well understood evil. Whigs and Tories were the dudebros at the time and for over 100 years prior… He was not prescient, just capable of using his eyes.
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
Johnson told reporters Thursday that he had a “great talk” with Stefanik the night before.
“I called her and I said, ‘Why wouldn’t you just come to me, you know?’” Johnson said. “So we had some intense fellowship about that.”
Asked if she had apologized for calling him a liar, Johnson said, “Um, you ask Elise about that.”
[fellowship intensifies]
I thought fellowship was a very religiously charged word and implied praying together - turns out I’m likely wrong about the prayer.
Can I just check that the normal well adjusted statesmen and women prayed for guidance, as in they couldn’t just think about the issue, weigh up the pros and cons, evaluate the long and short term consequences, but instead had to appeal to some mystical higher power …!? Wtf is wrong with people.
That sounds like the sort of content moderation they claim to hate so much
is he worried itll get into the news he never reads?
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
whenever i tell people my whole story people tell me i’m trolling or i’m in the middle of a psychotic break
