@Rapidcreek to politics • 8 months agoDemocrats make no promises about bailing out Mike Johnson againwww.axios.commessage-square21arrow-up167arrow-down12
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minus-square@givesomefuckslinkEnglish-13•8 months agoThe first? There was the one that got him speaker, and the one that just happened… That’s two. And that’s ignoring the other motions to vacate and that it didn’t just take one vote to make him speaker. I don’t understand how anyone can think Johnson has only been helped by Dems once…
minus-square@RapidcreekOPlink8•8 months ago There was the one that got him speaker That vote was 209 Democrats and 220 Republicans. A straight party line vote.
minus-square@givesomefuckslinkEnglish-18•8 months agoThat’s right, I was confusing him with the last republican speaker Dems voted for. Still not sure why we bailed him out after he tried to impeach Biden for bullshit reasons
minus-square@RapidcreekOPlink10•8 months agoThe previous speaker was McCarthy. The final ballot was 216 to 212 in a straight party line vote. Democrats did vote for his ouster, when a motion to vacate was brought.
minus-square@Triashalink1•8 months agoHe was bailed out because he passed Ukraine aid. (And Israel aid, and Taiwan). And before that he avoided a government shutdown. He caved on democratic priorities, which, sure, he should have done anyway, but he broke the Hastert rule for the first time in decades.
The first?
There was the one that got him speaker, and the one that just happened…
That’s two. And that’s ignoring the other motions to vacate and that it didn’t just take one vote to make him speaker.
I don’t understand how anyone can think Johnson has only been helped by Dems once…
That vote was 209 Democrats and 220 Republicans. A straight party line vote.
That’s right, I was confusing him with the last republican speaker Dems voted for.
Still not sure why we bailed him out after he tried to impeach Biden for bullshit reasons
The previous speaker was McCarthy. The final ballot was 216 to 212 in a straight party line vote.
Democrats did vote for his ouster, when a motion to vacate was brought.
He was bailed out because he passed Ukraine aid. (And Israel aid, and Taiwan). And before that he avoided a government shutdown.
He caved on democratic priorities, which, sure, he should have done anyway, but he broke the Hastert rule for the first time in decades.