When Republicans gained control of the House in November 2022, many in Washington wondered how they would be able to govern effectively with one of the slimmest majorities in history. Some Democrats even speculated if they might be able to take back the House before the term ended.
Sixteen months later, as the Republican majority has shrunk even further, House Speaker Mike Johnson is admitting that possibility. He told Fox News on Monday that there is a slim chance he could lose the speakership to Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries in the next few weeks amid a wave of early retirements. "That’s a risk,” Johnson said of Democrats taking control of the House.
Already three Republican lawmakers have resigned from their posts mid-term—Reps. Kevin McCarthy, Bill Johnson, and Ken Buck. A fourth Republican, Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, is expected to step down in mid-April, bringing the party’s former nine-seat majority down to just 217-213 as Republicans lost a fifth seat after George Santos was expelled from the House.
Not that I want them to win at all, but I think losing the house would be a godsend to the Republicans. It would be yet another fire under the asses of voters to “save America” from the Democrats…
I’m so sick of all of this. I’m so mad my candidate lost…
How would that logic work?
GOP Reps: “You need to vote us Republicans in so we get majority control of Congress !”
GOP voters: “err, we did. You guys quit in massive droves after passing the least amount of legislation in history. So you didn’t do your jobs, then you quit, and you want us to vote you back in? Won’t you just quit again?”
It would work the same way it’s worked for the last 30 years…Fox News will make some shit up and they’ll believe it.
They don’t care about what actually happens in the government. They would happily get torched under a flamethrower if they could hold a couple of immigrants down underneath them while it happens.
Or, as my grandfather used to say, and my boss when I was a teenager, “I’m a Republican. I vote for the nominee.”
you are making a massive fatal flaw in logic in this comment: you’re assuming repubitard voters have enough braincells to use logic, or object permanence from more than 1 week ago
they only ever react to whatever the current fox news outrage is
You’re overestimating the memory of the average voter.
You’ve not met many republicans then ?
Mostly because republican voters are absolute dipshits with the memory of a goldfish who believe everything they’re told on right wing TV without a second thought
Talk to a Boomer who was around in the 1970s, and they’ll bend your ear telling you about how they could live well off of minimum wage.
Then ask them if Reagan’s ‘trickle down’ ever worked for them. They’ll really go off telling you how great Reagan was.
[Apologies to all those who voted for Jimmy Carter et al]
What would the Democrats even do if they won? Clean the courts? Nuke the filly? Voltron-up Ukraine?
Surprise of surprises they retake something before November what would they actually do, 14.3 the insurrections they still sit down with in the congressional cafeteria each day?
Remember in '06 when they got both chambers and instead of pulling out of Iraq they kept funding that shit and it took a woman committing a crime to get the Status Of Forces Agreement torn up?
Remember when they had a super majority in '10 and they still stripped a public option out the ACA because I guess they thought it was funny?
It’s not like Democrats have gained any moral fortitude or political will since then since it’s the same people.
To say nothing of the bad things they seem to actively want to do, what should someone reasonably expect of the Democrats if they did get a Jeffries gavel?