'Republicans in disarray': House GOP lawmakers said to be giving away all their power
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is in grave peril as renegade House Republicans are threatening to call a motion to remove him from power, exactly as they did for his predecessor Kevin McCarthy.
The craziest part of this whole affair, analyst David Chalian told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday, is that the far-right House rebels are throwing away the power of the entire GOP House majority in its current state — coming at a moment when they were just rebuked by the summary dismissal of their articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
"Let's just start with this moment in history, which I think it's fair to say, there [are] some Republicans in disarray," said Tapper.
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"I mean, when you think about the first impeachment of a cabinet secretary in 150 years that several Republicans themselves said did not meet the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors — the entire trial was done within 3.5 hours and so clearly Democrats weren't taking it seriously, but even some Republicans had said it didn't meet the threshold — you have Republicans, perhaps poised to oust their second speaker in six months' time."
"Most conservative speaker in the modern history of this Congress!" interjected Tapper.
"As they are holding the majority of the House of Representatives, the one slice of government they're in charge of. And they may just go through this self-immolation exercise again of getting rid of its own speaker, all while the Republican nominee for president and the former president is sitting as a criminal defendant on trial in New York, awaiting jury selection to be completed in this first criminal case of his. It's just — it's a moment where you step back and say, you know, fiction writers would write each one of these things and you wouldn't believe it's all happening in the same day."
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