The Louisiana Republican announced on Wednesday morning on an all-staff call that he will not run for House minority leader for the new Congress next year, following Tuesdayās historical Democratic landslide takeover of the House of Representatives.
Itās not clear yet if Johnson has anointed a successor to lead the Republican caucus. Representative Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has already thrown his hat into the ring and announced heās running for House minority leader. According to Punchbowl News, Jordanās pitch will be that new blood is needed and that he specializes in investigations.
The current number two Republican in the House, Representative Steve Scalise, also announced that he is running for caucus leader.
What would it take to get Trump to resign?
Mr Spineless slithers off like the spineless blob he is hoping no one notices
Heās going to have a lot of time on his hands now and will depend on his son to heavily monitor his porn intake.
Heās still going to be in the house. He didnāt lose his election.
Jeffries and Schumer should have both stepped down after the embarrassing 2024 losses.
Gym fucking Jordan? Are you fucking kidding me? How is he thinking this is the moment for pedophile protectors to take the reins? JFC
For them, protecting pedophiles right now, is a requirementā¦not an option. Democrats are going to be investigating everyone, so they need someone in charge with experience at covering shit up.
Democrats are going to be investigating everyone,
One can only hope, but itās still to be seen.
Jeffries seemed to indicate itās not a priority
Yeah my hope is that Jeffries and Schumer are votes out of leadership. Otherwise itās gonna be status quo bullshit all over again.
Shhh, let them do it. MAGA is radioactive at this point.
Dem leaders like Schumer, Pelosi and Jeffries are also toxic. No one voted FOR the centrists, they voted against the republicans. Centrist leaders need to know that that they and their policies are hated, with only slightly less fire than republicans.
These people are long since detached from reality
Iām every single photo Iāve ever seen of him, he just looks confused to hell. Like heās having super early dementia.
I mean I know heās just plain evil, but he looks confused as hell, and Patel always looks awkward as fuck.
Itās all the drugs. Poppers probably. They are popular in the gay community.
Gym Jordan sexually assaulted children.
Of course he did! Itās a qualification for any Republican Leadership position.
Yes, and Importantly, covered it up for years. Which is exactly what the Republicans want right now. The Dem leadership is definitely going to use their powers to investigate all the shit the Republicans have been covering up, including that. Actually going after the pedophiles the Republicans have been hyping their base up about for the last decade or so is a good way to maintain some support from voters that crossed over this election. The Dems donāt have an issue cleaning their own house, even when it isnāt really warranted like Al Franken, so itās not really a threat for them.
And exposing the pedophile members of Congress is a good way to start cleaning house. Congress can expel members, and while generally uncommon other than the Confederates expelled in 1861/1862, in the House, James Traficant was expelled in 2002 and George Santos was expelled in 2023. In the Senate, John Ensign was going to be expelled in 2011 but he chose to resign before that happened. Itās uncommon, but isnāt some long lost capability no one knows about anymore.
Yeah, thatās why they chose him
Welcome to the club of the ex-future leaders of the Republican party.
Was that an actual book?
Thatās hilarious. Iāll keep an eye out for it on the resell books.
Private equity, investment banking, and runs a SuperPac. They landed pretty well.
Good riddance racist loser.
Damn. People voted so hard they bullied this loser into quitting lol. Donāt stop now! Demand Democrats actually improve peopleās lives.
In order to do that we need to replace the house and senate leadership.
Edit: https://www.change.org/p/house-democrats-choose-a-new-speaker
Agreed. Thatās part of the demandā¦
The pedo cover-up guy wants to do it? What you going to do rās.
Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has already thrown his hat into the ring and announced heās running for House minority leader.
Gymnasium Jordan. Looks like he has a strict diet of armpit hair. Thatās the guy.
Theyāll pick him. Because thatās exactly what they need. They need someone to help cover up everything from the Dem investigations.
Have you ever heard him talk though? That has to annoy them too.
Have you heard Trump talk? He hasnāt been able to finish a single coherent sentence for years now. Itās most obvious when you try to read a transcript of what he says. Itās all catchphrases and little clips strung together as if they form sentences. And their propaganda network has to cut it up to make a coherent thought from it. But thatās what they already do anyway, probably why his dementia has made him talk like that in the first place now.
Theyāre eating their young. Iām sending (yet another) e-mail to our RethugliKKKan Senator, asking if she regrets not removing it from office as I demanded so many times in the past. Her reply will be priceless.
I was struggling yesterday to remember whst this guys name is. He just carries trumps diaper bag now and rubber stamps his crimes. He didnt quit leadership, he got sidelined. Like all trumps allies, its only a matter of time until trump backstabs or scapegoats them.
jordan is a creep and criminal too
Itās going to be Scalisce. The donors wonāt touch Jordon. Aside from being a degenerate, heās also a moron and a bad hang.
Yep. Even among Rs the leader has to be able to work with all, and Gym Jordan does NOT have that ability. Last time he was in the running for leadership, in multiple rounds of voting he only ever lost votes, never gained.
On the other hand, I canāt even count the number of times Scalise has almost been Republican leader and then lost to someone else. I mean almost every single Congress for the last dozen years, and specifically against Keven McCarthy more than once. Scalise has also been whip at least once, which is a help, and they all seem to like him.
So yeah, Scalise was my first thought as well. But all those other times he was actively campaigning for leadership, and there is the possibility he may not want it now, in which case itās anybodyās guess.
But it wonāt be Jordan, any more than it would ever be Ted Cruz: they just donāt like him that much, and heās a bully. Republicans like bullies in general; they just donāt like being bullied.
I also think itās telling that in 2023, the one time Jordan actually got close to being Speaker for a hot second because they just couldnāt pick one after multiple rounds of voting, they finally removed Jordan from the race for Speaker by secret ballot.
I think youāre right. Itās possible but HIGHLY unlikely that the minority leader will be Jordan, IMO.
Scalise has been cruising on the āI got shotā thing for a while now.
I guess when your party is feckless and vapid, you hold onto any āstoryā you can get.
But Iām convinced that him getting shot was the best thing to ever happen to his career as a Republican politician.
Am I the only person who saw this sentence?
According to Punchbowl News, Jordanās pitch will be that new blood is needed and that he specializes in investigations.
After reading that, I thought Punchbowl News must be a top-tier satire publication, but apparently, Jim Jordan seriously said that he, a person whose biggest claim to fame is that he refused to investigate repeated claims of SA on college students for unknown years, āspecializes in investigationsā and that they need ānew bloodā.
Is he so dense that he could say something like that without realizing what it means? Or is he secretly reminding people what heās done, in an effort to taunt his victims, like serial killers have done in the past?
He means that he specializes in stymieing and slow walking investigations, which is exactly what the Republicans need right now
AAAAAAAAhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhaahhahahahahahaā¦ sigh.
