Democrats warn Mike Johnson about private talks with MTG
Source: Axios
11 hours ago
House Democrats are aghast as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) conducts a series of lengthy meetings with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) aimed at defusing her efforts to oust him.
Why it matters: Democrats have already vowed to protect Johnson from Greene's motion leading many of them to ask why he's still trying to appease her.
"He has to be careful here," said one senior House Democrat, telling Axios that "if he looks like he's just simply going to try to capitulate to her that could affect [the way] some Democrats see him." House Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said Tuesday: "When Speaker Johnson meets with her for hours, the American people should be asking 'what is Marjorie Taylor Greene extracting from the speaker?'"
Driving the news: Greene met with Johnson for several hours this week, laying out demands that include no more aid to Ukraine and defunding special counsel probes.
Johnson told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday: "It's not a negotiation, okay, this is how I've operated as speaker." After their meeting on Tuesday, Greene said "the ball is in Mike Johnson's court" and that she doesn't have a "specific timeline." She previously promised to force a vote this week.
What they're saying: "I don't know what in the world they could be talking about for hours on end, and I don't know why he would waste his time there. We have given enough indication we can help him get back to business," Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-Mich.) told Axios.
Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) told Axios: "You cannot placate her. The minute you try to appease her, she's going to have new demands." "I worry that the Republicans are focused more on their internal battles and their culture wars than trying to do what's right for the American people as a whole," said Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.).
Read more: https://www.axios.com/2024/05/07/mike-johnson-marjorie-taylor-greene-democrats
Roy Rolling
(6,956 posts)MTG wont be placated even if they installed gym equipment at her Congressional desk.
3Hotdogs
(12,556 posts)Or a pool boy (Jerry Falwell Jr.)
AllaN01Bear
(19,267 posts)usaf-vet
(6,307 posts)....moved away from the Trump cult. LC, AK, and MR. Have I missed others?
cstanleytech
(26,402 posts)lastlib
(23,505 posts)as saying, "This will be my last territorial demand."
We know how that went the last time........jus' sayin'.....
2naSalit
(87,306 posts)"Doing" for four hours.
I think there is plotting going on in such a way that the magats will try to make Dems think Mikey is doing the right thing while plotting to destroy everything.
You can't trust Mikey, no matter what he says and looks like he's doing.
Marthe48
(17,246 posts)mtg is doing the doin'.
2naSalit
(87,306 posts)Other than her constant flame throwing, her "secret power".
Seems she and beetlejuice babe have a side industry of coercion and influence that includes handsiness and other lurid acts of sliminess. I just have a feeling.
Voltaire2
(13,478 posts)marble falls
(58,204 posts)... he ignores the fact we've saved his ass. This time. It wasn't because he's such great man, it's because he's the lesser of two evils, he's the devil we know.
lamp_shade
(14,858 posts)twodogsbarking
(10,136 posts)has she slept with?
Emile
(23,562 posts)Mike Johnson. He is a January 6th traitor.
lastlib
(23,505 posts)He needs to be in prison. Instead, he's Speaker of the House of Representatives. That's how effed up the party of fascism is.
bluestarone
(17,236 posts)Get RID of him.
Hotler
(11,544 posts)They are not your or our friends. Instead of worrying about what repugs are focused on maybe you guys should be making plans for how the American voters can survive a fascist take over. Will our Government be there for us when the fascist openly start killing protesters?????????
AllaN01Bear
(19,267 posts)Rabrrrrrr
(58,358 posts)So it's not so much that they're talking for so long, it's that Johnson has to sit there and absorb the word salad until something coherent comes through. And once every 72 hours or so, that coherent thought might also be an intelligent thought.
wss2001
(56 posts)Can you imagine talking to that moron for hours?
Id rather do almost anything than that!!
dalton99a
(81,919 posts)ShazzieB
(16,808 posts)On one hand, he wants to keep his speakership (naturally), but he needs help from the Democrats to hang on to it.
On the other hand, he wants to maintain his standing with MTG and other members of the Chaos Caucus.
He will lose the support of Democrats if he starts catering to MTG's demands, but MTG will rev up her efforts to oust him if he doesn't do at least some of what she wants.
He can't make MTG and the MAGA crowd happy without alienating Democrats and vice versa. He doesn't like either option, but trying to please everyone is not sustainable. He's walking a very fine line right now, and the whole thing is likely to blow up in his face if he keeps on the way he's going.