Speaker Mike Johnson: Marjorie Taylor Greene turned me into a 'mental health counselor'

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson told a Louisiana radio station talk show that U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and some others in the GOP conference force him to spend “half” his day “as a mental health counselor.”

Appearing on KEEL’s “Mike & McCarthy” show, as The Daily Mail reported, Johnson on Tuesday was asked if he and the far-right Christian nationalist congresswoman had “kissed and made up” after she tried to oust him in a dramatically failed “motion to vacate.”

“Oh good grief. You know me, I don’t carry grudges,” Johnson replied. “I don’t, you know, I don’t keep a record of wrongs. I went up to her right after her ridiculous tirade and said, ‘You know what, still gotta work together, Marjorie. … How about training some of that energy against the Democrats?'”

“Look. This is all gonna work out. I spend half my day as Speaker of the House and the other half as a mental health counselor,” getting everybody “through their issues.”

The Daily Mail also reported that “in November, [previous Speaker Kevin] McCarthy had a piece of advice for his successor: ‘Bring in a psychiatrist for many of these members.'”

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In addition to his remarks about the Georgia Republican, Johnson went after President Joe Biden.

Asked about the southern border, Johnson defended House Republicans, insisting, “We’ve been fighting since Joe Biden walked into the Oval Office and started issuing executive orders to open it wide.”

During the interview, Johnson expressed little interest in working with Democrats, whom he said he told Greene to fight.

He also insisted House Republicans have been “fighting tooth and nail” against Democrats.

“Here’s the problem. Everybody has to remember. We have the smallest majority and only one chamber of Congress and I have a one vote margin,” Johnson lamented.

“So I can pass things in the House. But it doesn’t mean it’s gonna become law, because the progressive Democrats run the White House and the Senate and so we send over our legislation, we pass resolutions. We impeached Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas at Department of Homeland Security.”