From: REALLY AMERICAN 9/01 - THANK YOU!

****DEMAND AN EXPLANATION ****

TWO DEMOCRATS BAILED OUT MIKE JOHNSON

Mike Johnson’s week was about to collapse. Two Democrats saved it.

Five Republicans voted against the rule teeing up this week’s GOP bills, which is what happens in a majority this thin. The rule should have failed. Instead it passed 210 to 208, because Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington crossed over and voted with Republicans.

Rule votes are not close calls. The majority votes yes, the minority votes no, and a member of the minority crossing over is close to unheard of.

What they rescued was a package that includes the Republicans’ bill denouncing socialism, which is not legislation so much as a midterm attack ad with a vote number attached. Johnson could not deliver his own conference. Two Democrats delivered it for him.

Democratic leadership found out when everyone else did. Whip Katherine Clark said it came as a surprise, that she had not heard from either of them, and that one of the rules of being on a team is you vote against the rule. She said there would be further discussions.

There should be. Republicans are two months from an election, they cannot run their own floor, and their own hardliners are in open revolt. That dysfunction is a gift, and the only job was to let it happen. Golden and Perez handed the speaker a functioning week and handed Republicans a messaging vote to run on. Nobody asked them to.

****WHAT THE H£LL ARE THESE 2 DEMS TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH ?****

I sincerely hope the voter in Maine and Washington demand an explanation from these 2 Representatives why they were compelled to keep Mike Johnson from failing on his own sword when his party didn’t give him the votes to pass. Methinks these 2 Representatives’ constituents should think long and hard about returning them to office when they just gave Republicans an election year ad showing that this rule passed only with the Dems help!