Isn’t he hardline?
“Hardline republicans and house speakers are natural enemies, like democrats and hardline republicans, or centrists and hardline republicans, or MAGAts and hardline republicans, or hardline republicans and other hardline republicans. Damn hardline republicans, they ruined hardline republicanism!”
I read that in the voice of Mike “the hardest” Johnson.
It came out like a whiney, greasy fart
You hardline republicans sure are a contentious people
You’ve just made an enemy for life!
By anyone else’s standards, yes. By their extreme standards he’s still not far enough to the right.
They just want a speaker who will hold America hostage in exchange for their extremely unreasonable demands, that they can’t even agree on. Is that too much to ask?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - A group of hardline Republicans has put new U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson on notice that he can no longer count on their support for legislation, signaling a possible early end to his “honeymoon” period.
It was the second floor protest this year by Freedom Caucus members and others, who were angered by Johnson’s decision not to include spending cuts and conservative polices such as U.S.-Mexico border restrictions in his stopgap measure to avert a partial government shutdown on Saturday.
“The honeymoon is probably over,” said Representative Nick LaLota, one of four Republicans from New York swing districts who also opposed opening debate on Wednesday because of abortion restrictions and law enforcement spending cuts in the underlying legislation.
Some hardliners who opposed Johnson on Wednesday also shut down the House floor in June to protest against a 2024 spending deal between President Joe Biden and then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was forced to adjourn the chamber days early.
McCarthy was ousted by eight hardliners on Oct. 3, after averting an Oct. 1 shutdown with a stopgap bill that ran afoul of the far right but won overwhelming support from Democrats.
Johnson, who has commanded respect within the far right as an outspoken Christian conservative, irked hardliners this week with his own short-term spending bill to maintain existing government funding levels and programs into early 2024.
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