Mike Johnson sagt, die Republikaner seien nicht „verantwortlich“ für die Regierung und verwies auf die 60-Stimmen-Hürde des Senats
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mike-johnson-republicans-in-charge/
Mike Johnson sagt, die Republikaner seien nicht „verantwortlich“ für die Regierung und verwies auf die 60-Stimmen-Hürde des Senats
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mike-johnson-republicans-in-charge/
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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.
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.
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?
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?!
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
Republicans: we hold the house the senate and the white house. We’re in charge!
Democrats: we think you should amend your bill to protect health care for americans.
Republicans: WE’RE NOT IN CHARGE!
The GOP hasn’t had an effective Speaker in 20 years. And Dennis Hastert was a child molestor and pled guilty to that and federal charges of particpating in hush money payments.
“I do want the credit without any of the blame”
-Michael ~~Scott~~ Johnson
Who knew governing with majorities in all the branches would be so hard?
Republicans not „in charge“ but they swayed a lot of key decisions during Biden’s term. The sad part is that people will believe this guy too.
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.
Hey gang!
Unless we give Republicans 100% control over every single lever of all three branches plus the armed forces, they don’t have any power to govern.
I wonder how he says that shit with a straight face.
They need to convince 7 out of 43 Democratic senators to agree to a deal. The art of the deal guy maybe should be there working his magick since he’s done ended a googolplex of wars with his skills. Should be easy right?
Republicans need to do their job. Get the votes to pass the bills. You negotiate with the people who’s votes you need. The Democrats want to stop healthcare from going up for the citizens. If you give them what they want and help the citizens then you get the votes to need to fund the government.
This is not hard. And it is not like Democrats want something unpopular with the people.
Incompetent fool continues to verbalize his stupidity.
Bullshit.
Unadulterated pure bullshit.
They have majorities in every branch of government.
This shitshow is all their production.
Of course voters wont remember.
Mike Johnson has chosen to keep the house out of session indefinitely. Going on 6 weeks now. This is pretty unprecedented
So basically he’s complaining that you need 60 votes to get anything done in the Senate… gee, wonder which party is largely to blame for that?
Dude is Spinless SMH
So he’s saying politics is only fair when he’s playing on easy mode?
How is homosexuality a sin because the bible says so, but lying, which is forbidden by the bible, seems to be ok?
Shouldn’t we be throwing rocks at liars, adulterers, and the rest?
Yet everything is Biden’s fault? With this logic no gov was responsible for anything since Obama who i think had 60 seats for a brief time?
I wouldn’t be surprised if they started using this narrative to argue they should be the only ones to be in control.
The Republicans control the Congress, House and Senate, the White House, AND a majority on the Supreme Court.
But, they’re still doing things without congressional approval, in opposition to judicial ruling, in violation of the Constitution, and against the will of the people.
Republicans aren’t being stopped by a lack of votes anywhere else. Republicans aren’t concerned with getting a consensus with any other proposals, legislature, or actions.
Republicans WANT the government shut down. If they didn’t, what would stop them from opening it? Nothing. Nothing has stopped them from doing anything else they’ve wanted.
You’re in charge. You’re not exclusively in charge. Which is why you work with the other party and don’t just try to force your way down their throats
Mike Johnson is a Moron.
Parents are in charge of their family… that doesn’t mean they can force their children to do *anything* they want. If parents decide all they are going to do is insult and berate their children, while taking all of their belongings away, and threatening to send them off to some prison-like boarding school – it will make running the family a lot more difficult. If you throw away their clothes and refuse to feed them – and the kids cant think of a single thing the parents have done to make their lives better… they will grow upset, and make the normally simple things that happen in a family extremely difficult.
The Republicans are literally in charge of the government – They hold majorities in the Supreme Court, The Senate, The House, and they hold the Presidency – that doesn’t mean running the government is automatically now easy… and it doesn’t mean Democrats are magically transformed into slaves. but these republicans subscribe to the MIGHT MAKES RIGHT dysfunctional Machismo family mind set – so the analogy would likely fall on def ears as they beat their wives and children for daring to speak back to them.