Three weeks before the next government-shutdown deadline, Republicans have elected a no-name speaker with no experience and no agreement on a way forward.
Rep. Mike Johnson is sworn in as speaker of the House on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. , as they were bickering their way toward nominating Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota, their fourth-string choice for the position, who would be shot down just a few hours after he was chosen.,” Rep. Bill Huizenga admonished his GOP colleagues in a closed-door caucus meeting on Tuesday. “I don’t want us to go out there and, in front of the entire world, puke on our shoes again. That’s what we’ve been doing.
Gallagher, by contrast, saw an NFL analogy for his party’s dysfunction. “As the Republican representative from Green Bay, it pains me to ask this question,” he told a group of us, “but I’m not sure who sucks at team sports more right now — the Packers or the House Republican caucus.the Republicans’ fourth choice for speaker , stormed out of the GOP conference meeting where he had just withdrawn his doomed candidacy.
Johnson’s anonymity was his greatest asset. In just his seventh year in Congress, he hadn’t been around long enough, or had enough power, to make enemies. He is the least-experienced speaker in a century and a half. But he has also been an avid election denier, Trump defender and promoter of the deep-state conspiracy, which appealed to the MAGA hard-liners who had defeated McCarthy, Scalise and Emmer.
A roll-call vote showed that about two dozen wouldn’t vote for Emmer on the floor. The usual suspects on the far right — Greene, Roy, Bob Good , Scott Perry , Andy Biggs — were ready to tank his candidacy, and they had more than enough votes to do so. The legislative terrorists had taken another hostage. Emmer kept the holdouts in the room, to see whether he could change their minds. But it was no use. Rep.
On the third ballot, just before 10 p.m., Johnson claimed a majority. The hard-liners had gotten their guy — and everybody else was too exhausted to object.
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