Republicans are privately—and publicly—considering dumping their own House speaker over the spending deal.

Less than three months into Mike Johnson’s tenure as speaker of the House, some House Republicans are already experiencing buyer’s remorse.

Texas Representative and Freedom Caucus member Chip Roy on Monday publicly raised the possibility of dumping Johnson as speaker.

  • @CoachEnglish
    39•11 months ago

    Shouldn’t it read “grifter”?

    • @[email protected]
      24•11 months ago

      Funny, I just looked into this last night! Apparently he’s actually a ‘grafter’

      The grifter is a small-time confidence man, a carnival swindler, or thief of some sort or other. The grafter may be most of these things, but also may be someone who engages in the “political corruption” sense of the word graft (which we define as “the acquisition of money, position, or other profit by dishonest or questionable means, as by actual theft or by taking advantage of a public office or a position of trust or employment to obtain fees, perquisites, profits on contracts, or pay for work not done or service not performed”).

      -Merriam Webster

      • @uid0gid0
        24•11 months ago

        A gifter? A grafter?
        They’re all a bunch of bastards.
        What can we do
        but give them their due
        with ridicule and laughter.

      • @topinambour_rex
        2•11 months ago

        In secobdlife grifters was people using scripts for crash servers.