Fewer than half of House Republicans bothered to attend Speaker Mike Johnson’s retreat

It’s wild what a few short months of actually getting to know a person can do to your opinion of them. That’s what House Republicans seem to have learned since October, when they replaced the glad-handing Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., with smarmy fundamentalist Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., for the Speaker of the House role. Johnson’s election was treated like a big win at the time. Republicans were unified in cheering and chanting “Mike! Mike!” like they were celebrating a championship-winning quarterback, instead of a guy who serves creepy youth pastor vibes.

Johnson’s popularity lasted as long as an embarrassing dance craze, however. It hasn’t been five months and already Johnson’s colleagues are pulling the Mariah Carey “I don’t know her” bit. Tuesday, CNN reported that fewer than 100 House Republicans bothered to RSVP for their congressional retreat in West Virginia this week, meaning that less than half the caucus showed up.

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    9 months ago

    These same people were griping to Politico last month that Johnson’s presentation at the last weekend retreat ignored pertinent-to-members issues like how to win re-election and grow their majority. Instead, “Johnson effectively delivered a sermon” about “declining church membership and the nation’s shrinking religious identity.” They’re just mad that they have to suffer the lives they’re seeking to forcibly inflict on the rest of us.

    After fifty years of pushing for theocracy these dim bulbs have finally actually thought about the ramifications.

    • whereisk@lemmy.world
      16·
      9 months ago

      They don’t give a shit about theocracy or anything else, they only care about power and money, there is no core idea they won’t abandon and their rhetoric is as bendy as a wet noodle - they simply didn’t sign up to lose, and this guy doesn’t look like he’s helping them win.