We are, once again, a week away from shutting down the government unless Congress passes a continuing resolution that, um, allows things to continue. Newly minted Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is the key player here:
Some lawmakers say the most plausible scenario is that Johnson puts a relatively clean CR on the floor, just before the shutdown deadline, that can pass with both Republican and Democratic votes — just as McCarthy did before his ouster. But even McCarthy's biggest detractors have said they'll give Johnson more breathing room than his predecessor and it’s unlikely any Republican would force a vote to remove him given that he was elected just two weeks ago with support from all 221 Republicans.
So Republicans oust Kevin McCarthy because he passed a clean CR; then spend three weeks finding someone more to their liking; and the first thing he does is.......pass yet another clean CR? As Obelix¹ would say, these Republicans are crazy.
¹You know, Asterix's pal.
Who knew you could build an entire political party around the premise that "That government is best, that can't."
(Of course it's not a blanket prohibition -- policing aberrant sexual behavior, for example. That's a legitimate use of state power. )
Who knew you could organize a political party exclusively of sociopaths? Of course as a group they find it impossible to get anything done, but I guess they view this as a feature rather than a bug.
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It's the Crazies driving the Republican train -- they're the ones who ousted McQarthy, and they're the ones saying they'll give Johnson "more breathing room" -- so the question really is, what's in the Crazies' minds? My guess would be (1) they don't need the attention as badly right now -- that really is all they're after; they don't care about shutdowns per se, or any of the rest of that boring governance stuff for that matter -- and (2) it's a little too soon to throw him overboard cuz they haven't yet made him dance the way they did McQarthy. But give it a little time and ...
On Oct 25, Mike Johnson became Speaker of the House.
On Oct 25, James Fallows sent this tweet:
I think the difference between McCarthy and Johnson may be that McCarthy got a CR passed before the government shutdown.
Happy to be wrong.
Mike Johnson makes Gym Jordan look like a paragon of virtue,
https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/1721187332047430015
You have to ask if there's nothing illegal in his finances why is it all so squirrelly?
Oh, of course.
He probably keeps it all in bitcoin, or some other kind of faith based cryptocurrency.
The dingbat caucus will probably rationalize that Johnson is an amen-able idiot who is exactly the kind of idiot they want as Speaker so they won't want him to crack up too quickly.
Even so, he is a complete idiot.
The only difference between McCarthy and Johnson is that in the eyes of the dingbats McCarthy had multiple opportunities to try to strong arm Dems and failed. They wanted the shut down via the debt ceiling.
The current deadline is so close it would be a shutdown without time for any sort of message as to why.
Johnson gets time to try to make that message. I don't see anything other than Tuesday's beat down, which would indicate the message would be any different now than the dingbats have been saying all year.
But we will see.
For a party that's anti-union and likes to rant about striking workers, Republicans in Congress sure are willing to refuse to do their jobs to get their demands met.
+1
I think they'll just kick the can down the road for a few more months. Republicans won't admit it but they've been weakened by Tuesdays election results but the MAGA crazies won't budge on their demands.
it’s unlikely any Republican would force a vote to remove him given that he was elected just two weeks ago
Why - with everything we have seen would that be unlikely?
Because Matt Gaetz said so yesterday.
It isn’t like Matt Gaetz is the only nutjob Republican Representative….
And no magic strengthening potion for the Freedumb Caucus. They're crazy enough to fight Roman legions without it.
I would never have guessed that Kevin would be an Asterix fan! I’m impressed!!
Same here. I'd be interested in knowing if he's been a long-time fan or if he discovered it on his trip to France last year. A&O is the biggest-selling comic franchise in the world, yet 99% of Americans have never heard of it.
After some sound and fury from the idiots they’ll pass the Senate’s CR, then do it again in December then dump Johnson in January before doing it again. Embarrassing if only they were capable of feeling embarrassed.
Knowing this is likely, one wonders just who Mikey J has named as his "continuity of Government" successor? The guy who will bang the gavel until the next actual Speaker can be elected?
Can he name himself?
If not, he can name a friend, who immediately resigns but has named as his successor...Rep M . Johnson!
😄😄😄
I’m guessing Jim Jordan
I think it's very likely that the Republican Caucus knows that if Mike Johnson gets booted to the curb, then some of them will cut a deal with the Democrats of some form. To make someone like McHenry speaker or something like that.
I think that A) the Freedom Caucus knows it can't get Jim Jordan as Speaker and B) finds the above threat credible, and likely to break badly for them. Three weeks ago, they were saying what a great guy Johnson was.
I tend to think that bbleh‘s on the right track. The objective of today’s Republicans isn’t better or even more ridiculous right wing policies. The objective is Fox News hits and fundraising. Everything is performative.
And the right wingers have been insulated from blowback from unpopular policies by gerrymandering and the peculiar nature of the American two party system in which a dedicated minority can rule if they’re willing to risk losing occasionally. This is basically the GOP’s problem with abortion and birth control: they could rant and rave but it didn’t worry “moderate” Republicans because they knew the Supreme Court would basically veto whatever craziness the Republican Party endorsed so it was safe to vote Republican. But now, years and years of stacking the courts with Federalist Society lunatics combined with Trump three appointments to the Supreme Court have made it possible to actually regulate birth control and sexual activity and people are scared.
"The objective is Fox News hits and fundraising. Everything is performative"
Exactly. They watched Trump's game and are iterating on it.
Trump is the main driver of teh Republican party, particular now that a full certified Trumpist is the speaker. It will be what he thinks will be best for him.
Once burned twice shy....
Mike Johnson is not an Institutionalist. He is a dyed in the wool MAGA. McCarthy was the Lizard Lot Salesman who deep in his heart was an Institutionalist but wanted power so badly he screwed his future just for the moment that he could hold that gavel.
The presumption that Johnson will pass a clean CR is nonsense. Right this moment he's already allowed funding bills to go forward with amendments that make them DOA in the Senate. Funding for Israel and Ukraine are stuck.
Furthermore, with McCarthy out, the GOP have no incentive to stick to his deal with Democrats and Biden earlier this year on cap on spending for the debt ceiling increase.
Not serious people.
If Republicans don’t shut down the evil Biden regime, what good are they? This is what their billionaire buddies and trump (not a billionaire) want. They should deliver it.
“ Before they pulled the financial services bill on Thursday, 165 Republicans voted for an amendment by Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., to cut White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's salary to $1. The measure failed as 54 GOP lawmakers joined Democrats to vote it down, but it revealed how an appropriations process that must be bipartisan to succeed has become a venue for partisan sniping.”
So funny.
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