House Democrats protected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to oust him on Wednesday after he pushed forward $95 billion in foreign military aid spending, including $61 billion for the Ukraine proxy war.
The House voted overwhelmingly 359-43 to table Greene’s effort, with only 32 Democrats and 11 Republicans voting against the motion. In contrast, every Democrat voted to oust Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as speaker last year after Matt Gaetz (R-FL) filed a motion to vacate.
According to The New York Times, members of the minority party in the House have never before voted to prop up the other party’s speaker, and the move demonstrates strong bipartisanship for foreign interventions. Democrats had signaled that they would protect Johnson if he held a vote on Ukraine aid.
Greene and a few other Republicans have been critical of Johnson for putting forward the foreign military aid bills without getting any concessions on border and migration policies. “Given a choice between advancing Republican priorities or allying with Democrats to preserve his own personal power, Johnson regularly chooses to ally himself with Democrats,” she said on the floor of the House.
After the vote, Greene told reporters that the Democrats “now control Speaker Johnson.”
Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the top Democrat in the House, said the vote was a show of bipartisanship. “Our decision to stop Marjorie Taylor Greene from plunging the House of Representatives and the country into further chaos is rooted in our commitment to solve problems for everyday Americans in a bipartisan manner,” he said.
Democrat or Republican, it doesn’t matter. We may as well have a Speaker Jeffries. Most of them want war, because they profit from it. Most of them support Israel, because Israel pays very well. And for them it’s all about the money. As Richard Steven Hack has said on this forum, if you vote for the state you get fucked. Don’t vote for anyone. Vote against every restriction on your natural rights. Vote for peace.
Vote for outsiders. Joe the plumber would probably be a safe bet.
“This November, vote Bipartisan Party ! The Republicratic Demoblicans are your only two options in one, so at the ballot box, everyone’s in a purple state!”
It’s killer vs killer.
it’s all about the money.
I think for most that it’s all about the **power**, money is just a counter in the game and it doesn’t always translate directly from one to the other.
For a few. I also think aggrandizement plays into it. Someone like Ted Kennedy, who was already very wealthy, fits that description. But most of them are just feathering their nest.
Money. Power. Plants in every college reporting to Israel (Rebecca Weiner : https://politicsny.com/2023/07/19/rebecca-weiner-named-nypds-first-female-deputy-commissioner-of-intelligence-and-counterterrorism/. AIPAC money. She has an office in Tel Aviv)
No matter what happens in the rest of the year, Johnson is spoiled goods. The man is a clueless nitwit, as are most of the rest of the bumpkins in the House and Senate.
They are bought and paid for. The Gaza and Ukraine wars have thrown open the curtain on the uniparty.
Thank you. It is the Uniparty. We are all Winson Smith now. I LOVE BIG BROTHER!!!!!!
The Hakeem-Johnson Uniparty voted to send another $27 BILLION to the Netanyahoo regime to help finish the genocide in Gaza. Marjorie Taylor Greene voted No. Guess which one is being villainized on Fake News as “an agent of chaos”?
Just like they voted to pass the Ukraine aid. But first they needed Trump to back Johnson. Which he did.
How Trump Saved Ukraine Aid
https://www.readcontra.com/p/how-trump-saved-ukraine-aid.
Recall that President Trump faced a bogus impeachment from House democrats over his withholding of US aid to Ukraine. Trump didn’t want to encourage Ukrainians on a disastrous path to War with Russia.
What does that have to do with him backing Johnson now? And I think his reasoning for withholding aid back then had to do more about him than about giving a rat’s ass about Ukrainians.
Hey we agree for once. A rare event.
Yeah, but why did he withdraw the U.S. from two treaties with Russia that kept us safe, then provide Kiev with weapons? He withdrew from Open Skies and INF treaties.
“solve problems for everyday Americans in a bipartisan manner”
To paraphrase George Carlin, bipartisan means more than the usual lying.
The Stupid Party and the Evil Party get together to do something that is both stupid and evil.
Anyone who says “everyday Americans” is a BSer. The real word is “ordinary,” but some PR firm decided that “everyday” sounded better. But everyone alive lives every day, so all Americans are “everyday Americans.” Therefore you would only say that for PR reasons, not for honest reasons.
By the way, the money was Trump’s idea. Both Mike Johnson and Trump said that it was his idea to give Ukraine as a “loan” that can be forgiven at any point, which it will be right after the election. Trump told Johnson to do it in a private meeting. Mich McConnell told Congressmen to “rally around Trump”. After the vote Trump praised Johnson.
Trump did it to gain favor with the top donors, no doubt, and with the media. They want Russia destroyed through an engineered “color revolution” for supporting pro-Palestinian Iran, for saving pro-Palestinian Syria, and for banning homosexual propaganda first aimed at school children and then in the whole country. On top of that Putin has criticized the mass immigration that he notes is destroying the West. You can’t allow a White head of state to oppose the Cultural Marxist agenda like this, so he must be overthrown. And Trump as usual caves to the Left.
Trump wants to make is ego “great again” He cares nothing about doing what is best for the American people and stopping the unhinged traitors in the congress and senate.
The Uniparty rules now. We are Winston Smith.
Uniparty for death! Yay!
This reminds me of when Hindenburg, who was backed by the Social Democrats, appointed Hitler chancellor.
@RepThomasMassie
Vacating Kevin McCarthy was a huge mistake. Every Democrat voted to vacate him because he fought them tooth and nail.
Keeping Mike Johnson is an even bigger mistake. An overwhelming majority of democrats voted to keep him because he’s given them everything they want.
And the republicans have backed off because their cult leader backed Johnson.
@RepThomasMassie
The day after I vote against @SpeakerJohnson, AIPAC announces a $300,000 ad buy against me. I hope Americans see what’s happening here.
Thank you for sharing…AIPAC is a cancer and is a threat to all Americans. undermining them at every level must be acted upon.
What I would like to see is a concerted effort by Tik Tok and all of its users/supporters mount a mass effort to remove the vile scum that inhabits both the congress and senate. There are a few exceptions like Thomas Massie, but the rest should be removed.
Militarism and imperialism overrule all other considerations for the US ruling class.
To continue the slaughter the Dollar Democrats propped up a far right religious bigot that supports a nationwide abortion ban.
America is doomed.
If you are really the opposition party, you seek to have the other party look ineffective, foolish and destabilized. It’s one big party just fighting over who gets the better seats in the committees.
Hakeem Jeffries!A rat protecting their RINO Rat named Mike Johnson!
I’m tired of all their BS. Tomorrow MTG will suggest the military stop antiwar protests. I daily see a stream of propaganda equating the protestors as anti-american terrorist sympathizers…
She’s pretty critical of the warring herself.
@RepThomasMassie
America is on a path that won’t end well.
We are borrowing money at an unsustainable rate, accumulating enemies through endless war, and eroding rights like free speech & privacy.
A Uniparty controls it.
These Republican congressmen risked their re-elections and credibility to expose it:
Biggs
Burlison
Crane
Davidson
Gosar
Greene (GA)
Massie
Mooney
Moore
Roy
Spartz
Professor Sachs on Judging Freedom:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdxt23fKLIg
If you’re tired of the Propaganda Media, antiwar.com and Judge Napolitano’s Youtube channel are terrific alternatives.
All the world is a stage, and the Speaker of the House is merely a player.
Funny how the only things they agree on don’t help ant ordinary Americans. . .
No Democrats should have come to Johnson’s defense, they did it to save Netanyahu’s and Zelensky’s hides.
No Republicans come to the defense of Democrats. The Democrats should have been gloating and laughing that there was a family feud in the Republican Party.