Mike Johnson says Republicans aren’t ‘in charge’ of the government, citing Senate’s 60-vote threshold
Source: snopes-dot-com
Mike Johnson says Republicans aren’t ‘in charge’ of the government, citing Senate’s 60-vote threshold
Source: snopes-dot-com
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Omg. A Mike Johnson response that wasnt:
>I dont know anything about that. I havent looked into it.
His whole world is collapsing.
Wonderful.
That’s weird – I thought all they had to do was nuke the filibuster and they could move forward without Democrats’ participation.
Well, if they’re not “in charge,” and need the votes of senators that represent millions of Americans to pass their budget, then it seems they should be offering something to those senators to earn the votes they admit they need.
Basically, don’t govern like you have a mandate if you don’t have a mandate.
They’re in total control when they want to sound strong, but they’re hamstrung when they want to blame Democrats for something. They’re the world’s biggest hypocrites and fuck all of them.
Because leading the Executive Branch, having a 6 to 3 majority in the Supreme Court and a numerical majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate doesn’t mean they lead the government, right?
Wouldn’t the proper response to that be actually negotiating with whoever *is* in charge to get the CR passed then? Rather than just repeating the same demands that don’t work?
We can’t do anything. It’s the rulebook we write, not us. See? Hands are tied!
Earn the fucking votes then, Mike.
The House should be in session and Arizona sworn in. Get to work and stop making excuses.
Notice with these people it is absolutely always someone else at fault.
they are only there to stir up an appearance on fox news. nothing else. just a bunch of “look at me” mfers doing nothing.
This is all semantics in service of talking points and in sacrifice of substance. It’s a lot like the lines he’s trotting out every day about how republicans are the party who cares about healthcare, just look at how much we have improved Medicaid with the budget! Meanwhile, the “improvements” are kicking people off and efforting the ACA’s collapse and, for *years*, never having any proposed alternative to the ACA, or, if they have one, not saying it because it will be politically unpalatable.
WELL MIKE YOU CAN CHANGE THAT.
Sorry for yelling.
I guess that means that you don’t have enough support to unilaterally pass the bill without negotiating with the opposition party to pick up some extra votes.
You’d think if we have a President that had mastered the art of the deal that it would be a slam dunk to get something passed and reopen the government.
Snowflakes are going to keep snowflaking
They constantly cry that they don’t have any power and when they finally get it they have no other setting than to cry and say they still don’t have enough power
That why they do literally whatever they want, 24-7?
Weak
The 60 vote threshold is a Senate procedural item. It can be overturned by the Senate Leader to allow a simple majority. It is frequently referred to as the “ nuclear option”.
Fascist pigs
Imagine being in one of the most powerful positions in the United States and claiming that you have no power.
History will not remember you kindly.
Sounds like you need to negotiate rather then demand Democrats do whatever you want. But honestly, it doesn’t matter. The GOP is completely untrustworthy. There is no reason for Democrats to negotiate with people who will likely just ignore any agreement they make once they get what they want. The GOP isn’t governing anymore they are dictating.
If there was a vacant Supreme Court seat, I wonder if they’d have problems getting the votes…
It’s all bullshit.
if one is to accept this statement as truth then one needs to accept that the Democrats are even “less in charge” of the government because they are even further away from 60 votes.
given the Dems are less in charge and there is no 3rd party, that leaves the GOP at the front of the libe – which i guess is another way to say, umm, in charge?!
Mike Johnson literally has the power to bring back the House to work out a deal to reopen the government. He’s a Republican
They are in charge with their majority but are still required to negotiate with the minority that represents large swaths of the United States. Cop out cuckery by the GOP
Remember when Democrats were called Do nothings for not being able to get 40% of a lock-step republican minority to join them at the table?
sucks.