Female lawmakers in the House GOP conference have had some high-profile splits with leadership in recent weeks. Some are heading for the exits.
This week alone, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., launched a discharge petition to go around Johnson and force a floor vote on a congressional stock trading ban, posting on X that she’s “pissed” that leadership isn’t moving fast enough on the issue while clarifying, “I like Mike.” Johnson prefers to go through regular order, and there has been an initial hearing on the issue.
Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the chair of House Republican Leadership, not only signed on to Luna’s petition but also publicly unloaded on Johnson over an unrelated issue in the national defense bill, suggesting in a series of social media posts that Johnson lied about the matter. The spat has seemingly since been resolved, but the bad blood between the two has long been simmering.
Meanwhile, a number of high-profile Republican women are fleeing the House for other opportunities, weighing retirement or quitting Congress early, fueling some concern that GOP women’s ranks could be depleted in the next Congress.
It makes sense for them to be in open revolt. Republicans have always found women revolting.
They should be starting votes of no confidence every week.
Yeah we don’t have that. US law seems to be allergic to anything that might be considered accountability.
That’s not a thing here. The closest we have is a motion to vacate the speakers’ chair.
These Republican women might be pissed off enough to do that, but then the House is thrown into chaos, like last time. And we would probably get someone even more batshit crazy as a new Speaker, like Jim Jordan or Nancy Mace.
Heck, the Speaker doesn’t even technically need to be a House member. They could elect George Santos, as long as all Republicans agreed to it. Or Matt Gaetz. Trump himself got no small amount of votes the last time that happened.
“If only women could be young tight assed boys” thought the Republican lawmakers.