Massie Joins Greene’s Effort to Oust Speaker Johnson

After Speaker McCarthy (R-CA) was sent packing by the motion to vacate made by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the House turned into chaos.

There was no plan to replace McCarthy, and after several unsuccessful attempts to install a new Speaker, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) was handed the gavel.

Since taking over, Johnson has conducted business much the same way as McCarthy after vowing to make big changes, and that is not sitting well with the House Freedom Caucus.

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If you recall, when Gaetz started to discuss the motion to vacate, McCarthy dared him to move forward, thinking that there was no way Gaetz could get the additional votes needed from the GOP.

Secondly, there were rumors that a deal had been secured with the House’s bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus.

That deal never came to be because Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) met with his caucus, and what do you know? Every Democrat supported the motion to vacate, and McCarthy was gone.

Rep. Greene made the motion to vacate, but the motion was not floored, with Greene later saying that she made the motion to warn Johnson that if he did not change his ways, he would be gone too, damn the consequences.

Nobody else in the caucus had come forward to support Greene’s motion, with most of them laughing it off as a joke and a waste of time.

Well, that just changed considerably because Rep. Massie (R-KY) is now joining her effort. With the razor-thin GOP majority, that may be all she needs if every Democrat votes with Greene’s motion.

Massie called on Johnson to resign, which Johnson refused to do, so Massie stated, "I asked him to resign…he said he would not.

"And I said, well, you're the one who's going to put us into this because the motion is going to get called, OK? The motion will get called."

Johnson was defiant in responding to the call to resign, stating, "I am not resigning.

"It is, in my view an absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion. We're simply here trying to do our job. It is not helpful. It is not helping the House Republicans advance our agenda, which is in the best interest of the American people."

If they do remove Johnson, I believe the chances of the GOP holding the House are virtually zero because voters are sick and tired of these games.

As I have stated before, I understand their frustration, but we really need to be looking at the big picture here for the 2024 election cycle.

If we lose the House and fail to take back the Senate, even if we win the White House, there is nothing that can be accomplished.

Of course, on the far side of disaster lies Biden beating Trump, Dems holding the Senate, and taking over the House, which would give Biden free rein to do just about anything he wants.