The New Speaker is Everything Voters Hate about the GOP

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The New Speaker is Everything Voters Hate about the GOP
October 25, 2023 at 3:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 43 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2023/10/25/the-new-speaker-is-everything-voters-hate-about-the-gop/

"SNIP..........

Dan Pfeiffer: “I follow politics for a living, and I had to Google Johnson to remember exactly who he was and where he was from.”

“Here’s who he is: Paul Ryan’s economic policies + Mike Pence’s views on abortion + Donald Trump’s dangerously wacky views on the 2020 election = Mike Johnson.”

“In other words, if Democrats could design in a lab the perfect candidate to run against, that person would look a lot like Mike Johnson.”

.........SNIP"

[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. Time to hang the wallpaper on him. nt

God knows the pukes wouldn’t waste a second.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

2. Yup. He's a piece of shit, but he's going to hurt the R's a lot in 2024

Glad they had to come to this asshat for their solution. Also glad the Dems didn't budge an inch.

[calimary]

13. That sounds like good news to me!

We’re gonna have to work like hell, but it can be done. And Mike Johnson will have given us PLENTY to work with. Heck, he already has, and he’s barely even gotten started!

[C Moon]

31. I don't think he'll hurt the GOP. The GOP think tank is very good at figuring out how to use idiots for votes.

[LiberalFighter]

34. He is more of the fringe side.

And if Trump goes with his plan to tell people not to vote because it is rigged.

[usonian]

3. But he comes from a family of good speakers.

[Magoo48]

7. "I think Gabby Johnson speaks for all of us."

[japple]

9. Mike Johnson (no relation to Gabby Johnson)

[calimary]

15. ROFL!!!

What he said!

[GB_RN]

32. I'm Particularly Glad...

“That these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age.”
😂

[Wednesdays]

37. "Howard Johnson is right!"

[Blue Owl]

4. Dude sounds like peak clownstick for the shitshow party

[Silent3]

5. What I need to know is if he's the type to play with government shutdowns and Ukraine aid

Getting bare-bones budget stuffed passed without enormous poison pills, and not wasting time on phony investigations and impeachment threats, is the best we were going to get out of this session of Congress anyway.

If we get that with this guy, we can count ourselves lucky.

[usonian]

8. From what I've seen, he's worse than Kevin, who was controlled by the RWNJ's

He *IS* one.

I suspect that he will demand elimination of Medicare and Social Security in exchange for a budget.

[Rebl2]

10. Can't do it

without going to senate and getting vote of approval. Oh and by the way seniors will be up in arms and vote them out next year if they try that.

[usonian]

20. Precisely. Impossible magat demands ( do ya remember aid to Ukraine vanishing? )

Stalemate.
No budget.
Win for Putin.

Hope I'm wrong.

[niyad]

11. Anti-aid to Ukraine, misogynist, anti-lgbtq+.

[LiberalFighter]

6. In general if they are from the South... nt

[japple]

12. Like John Lewis (RIP), Jasmine Crockett, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, David Scott,

Lucy McBath, Jim Clyburn, Darren Soto, Maxwell Frost, Kathy Castor....all from the south. They represent many people who are not ignorant rednecks.

[LiberalFighter]

18. Did you miss the first two words?

[japple]

23. No I didn't miss anything. In general, "people who are black...women...queer...the South" etc.

get lumped into some kind of uncomfortable togetherness. I'm sure you didn't mean anything by it, but those of us who live in the South, especially those who, like me, live in Marjorie Taylor Greene's district, are sensitive about seeming somehow akin to those who voted for her and her ilk.

[Paladin]

36. Thank you so much. (nt)

[IbogaProject]

39. The GOP is in power due to gerrymandering, poor schools, and propaganda

Plenty of southerners would be fine if they had better economic opportunities after getting a good education. Many southerners are good people with out either of those benefits.

[Proud Southern Belle]

14. There are no decent republicans.

ALL of them are corrupt, criminal traitors. None of them are good patriotic Americans. Those people are an embarrassment to this country. They make me ashamed to be American.

[Skittles]

40. at the very least

EVERY repuke is part of a party that is sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, anti-worker, anti-science - they ALL make me sick

[keithbvadu2]

16. The GOP was desperate to elect a speaker. They were showing their incompetence.

[bucolic_frolic]

17. how did he get 220 votes?

[PortTack]

19. I think the votes were there to elect Jordan, the difference, voters knew who Jordan was. Just like tfg in

‘16, this guy is an unknown. Maybe even worse but the gqp decided that the unknown element would work and went for it.

[quakerboy]

29. I refer you to post 14: there are no decent republicans

Nor are there any moderate Republicans remaining. They are dangerous ideologues from one and all. Differences between them are style not substance.

[malthaussen]

21. They actually elected that idiot?

The GOP reaches new lows daily.

-- Mal

[liberal N proud]

35. How low can they go?

I am sure we have not seen their bottom yet.

[JHB]

22. Never trust a politician (or anyone, but especially politicians) who think their success...

...was "ordained by God".

It wasn't, but saying so makes a great smokescreen. Sometimes even for themselves.

[tinrobot]

24. Hopefully, Tiny Johnson will just accelerate the party's collapse.

He's certainly not going to win over new voters by being more Christo-crazy than Pence.

[Evolve Dammit]

25. We are about to encounter domestic terrorists (in suits) on their impending planned shutdown.

Orange Julius wants it all burned down, and they will all comply with what cult leader Messiah wants.

[walkingman]

26. A white evangelical from the Bible Belt who was a leader in election denial.

That should work out well.

[SouthernDem4ever]

27. I'm sure he'll try to be the biggest asshole in Congress right away

[MyMission]

30. He won't have to try hard.

He started by giving Congress a long weekend off, to recover from the stress of the last several weeks!

On second thought, he's probably going to be working this weekend, collaborating with his magat friends on the worst agenda and legislation he can come up with. Although they've already got a lot of that planned.

[chia]

28. "Best Way To Make Someone's Quiet Extremism Widely Known? Elect Them Speaker"

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/best-way-to-make-someones-quiet-extremism-widely-known-elect-them-speaker

[liberal N proud]

33. Which is exactly what the radical right wants

This is Goetz dream

[peggysue2]

38. Which is why I predict the election of Johnson will backfire

Spectacularly. In the same way Roe v Wade has backfired. It's based on the old maxim:

Be careful what you wish for.

Keep digging that hole, Republicans.

[Initech]

41. But he's everything Fox News loves in an authoritarian dictatorship.

And he'll be Hannity's puppet and do whatever he says.