House Majority in peril as Bill Johnson resigns

[sunonmars]

Link to tweet

Bill Johnson submitted his letter of resignation today to the U.S. House of Representatives, effective Jan. 21, and will start the next day as Youngstown State University president

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4385589-house-gop-majority-to-shrink-to-2-with-ohio-lawmakers-early-resignation/

House Republicans’ already-slim majority will dwindle even further later this month when Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio) resigns earlier than expected.

Johnson’s office on Tuesday confirmed the congressman’s new official resignation date of Jan. 21, after he was expected to resign to take a job as president of Youngstown State University before mid-March.

The resignation will leave the House with 219 Republicans, 213 Democrats, and three vacancies — meaning Republicans will be able to afford to lose only two votes on any party-line measure, assuming full attendance.
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They are in big peril of losing the majority if members keep fleeing.
Nothing is getting done in 2024.

Rats and sinking ship comes to mind.

[Lunabell]

1. A lot of these republican districts are purple.

When they nominate an evil magat, and they will, the district majority won't vote for a damned nazi wannabe. Here's to hopefully, a huge win for Democrats in 2024!

[getagrip_already]

2. I think its 218 r now, 213 d, and 4 vacancies

But one of those vacancies is in FL in a dem district and DeSantis refuses to call a special election.

Another is McCarthy, and there is no requirement to call a special for him.

Yet another is santos. There will be a special for his seat.

And now this seat. Don't know if it will flip or not.

But the gop isn't at risk for the majority yet.

[petronius]

30. A special election is required for McCarthy's seat; Newsom has to set the schedule

within 14 days of the resignation date (12/31), and the election will need to be on a Tuesday between 126 and 140 days after the governor issues the election proclamation.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=ELEC&division=10.&title=&part=6.&chapter=1.&article=

[DFW]

52. That can still leave his seat vacant for four months

That is a long time for Mikey to deal with his majority to be diminished with no remedy.

[Demovictory9]

3. Keep resigning!

[Takket]

4. I heard the Harvard job is open too.

[oldsoftie]

29. Lololol

[Captain Zero]

55. Maybe if there is an R rep from MA we can get him hooked into that?

Force a vacancy.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. How different would our lives be if Democrats had maintained the House in 2022?

The Republican majority has done zippo to improve American lives.

We have to fight to get a budget done.
We can't support Ukraine militarily.
We can't support Israel militarily....with effective qualifications to protect the Palestinian GP.
Can't address women's healthcare.

The fact that a 1/2 dozen small rural districts in this country can subvert the will of the majority of Americans, just blows my mind.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. It breaks my heart that we didn't get more state houses in the year of the census.

Gerrymandering is a plague.

[Celerity]

25. the number one singular villain in all that is Andrew Cuomo

His decade-long war with the NYC liberals/progressives ratfucked us to the tune of a net swing (against us) in the US House of 12 to 16 seats.

The Dem-created map for the 2022 midterms would have for sure have yielded 21 D, 5 R seats, very likely 22 D, 4 R, and a decent shot at 23 D, 3 R.

Instead we ended up with only 15 D to 11 R, plus lost incumbent Dems to Dem-on-Dem canibal primaries, and gave the US House to the Rethugs.

Cuomo helped ram through a poxy state Constitutional Amendment that killed off our control of redistricting, he supported the renegade conservadems (the IDC) in the NY Senate to rebel and take away Dem NY Senate control and give it to the Rethugs, and he stacked the NY judiciary with conservatives, one of whom wrecked us in 2022 with their Special Master-derived shit map.

[OAITW r.2.0]

28. It's always on the voters.

Voters that think politics is sports....than can't understand why their life gets shittier as they keep voting in the people that screw their best interests.

[Celerity]

32. When we put up a map that would have kept the US House, but a Cuomo-spawned process takes it away, it is no

longer on the voters. We all know that Rethug voters will now (and have for ages) vote for destruction, but they should have never been given the chance.

I don't believe in unilateral disarmament when it comes to gerrymandering. It is political suicide, as we saw with the 2022 House midterms. It was not just limited to NY either, we show ourselves in the foot in some (mostly wester) States as well, with similar foolish capitulation to so-called 'non-partisan' redistricting.

Rethugs look at politics as war, a mutated take on Carl von Clausewitz:

WAR IS A MERE CONTINUATION OF POLICY BY OTHER MEANS.

We see, therefore, that War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means. All beyond this which is strictly peculiar to War relates merely to the peculiar nature of the means which it uses. That the tendencies and views of policy shall not be incompatible with these means, the Art of War in general and the Commander in each particular case may demand, and this claim is truly not a trifling one. But however powerfully this may react on political views in particular cases, still it must always be regarded as only a modification of them; for the political view is the object, War is the means, and the means must always include the object in our conception.

[OAITW r.2.0]

35. OK, we will blame Cuomo....the guy that I counted on for my day-to-day Covid Pandemic update.

Another public servant that got screwed. Did he have a Big Libido? Probably. Bill Clinton did, as we know. Did they both help move this country in the right direction? Absolutely.

[Celerity]

45. He did not get screwed, he screwed us at the end of the day. As for Covid:

On November 22, 2021, the New York State Assembly released an Impeachment Investigation Report disclosing Cuomo directed his staff to inappropriately withhold or misrepresent information regarding the effects of COVID-19 on nursing home deaths including the exclusion of out-of-facility COVID-19 deaths in his report to the Department of Health.

https://nyassembly.gov/write/upload/postings/2021/pdfs/20211122_99809a.pdf

[OAITW r.2.0]

47. No, the voters did.

Republican districts everywhere insure that they will get fucked. Consistently.

[JonAndKatePlusABird]

53. Sorry, he screwed himself

I say this as someone who watched the daily updates and even voted for him. IMO this isn’t on the voters, this was a case where power went to his head and we all suffered.

[Sky Jewels]

43. I can't type what I'd like to say about Andrew Cuomo.

[Danmel]

56. Tom suozzi too, gave up his fairly safe seat

To primary Gov. Hochul, weaken her, fear monger about crime and increase republican turnout. He cost us 3 long island congressional seats and now the same party chair who did NO opposition research on George Santos, has selected Suozzi again.
Makes me want to scream!

[LiberalFighter]

57. The Cuomos are all worthless. Including his brother on that yellowrag newsnation.

[edhopper]

51. Any idiot who voted for Biden

Then a repug Rep should need to take a civics class.

[2naSalit]

6. Oh man...

This is way better than convincing them to not vote on given Bills! Let's see, in a matter of weeks we have the departure of what's his name, kevvin, and now this guy. Maybe there will be a few more in coming days. One can only hope!

[Butterflylady]

19. Maybe, just Maybe, some will grow a

Backbone and a spine that will let face the fact that they've been had by the biggest con job this country has ever seen.

[2naSalit]

22. That might be...

Asking too much of them, though.

[Ms. Toad]

7. Have to admit I'm torn on this one.

I really don't want him as president of Youngstown University.

[Marthe48]

9. You are not alone

The board who asked him to be president were not thinking. The decision was made behind closed doors and there has already been backlash. A donor had his named removed from a new building. Alumni are protesting and another person withdrew their donation. Ohio Capital Journal has been following the story: https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/

[progressoid]

12. +1

[quakerboy]

50. Id rather have him there than in the house majority

Can we get a half dozen more to move on the same way?

Then have the boards remove them. Theres probably a financial cost, but i feel certain he (they) will provide reasonable justification for terminating their contracts given half a chance.

[Ms. Toad]

58. They secretly recruited him, ignoring standard protocols for open positions

Then completed the hire over massive protests. They aren't looking for a reason to dump him.

And I'm retired from a university with two recent ousted Presidents. Some financial cost is an understatement. Partly because of their actions as president, and partly because of the cost to buy them out, that university no longer offers degrees in math and physics, decimated it's faculty not by careful planning, but by not hiring replacements for those who resigned or retired (which left entire schools within the university dangerously understaffed) - with others relatively overstaffed, and forced pay and benefit cuts on everyone.

And that is completely separate from the ideological (non-financial) harm he could do to the university as the president (one of one, as opposed to one of 435 representatives).

[ecstatic]

8. someone needs to offer 10 of them jobs

then fire them shortly after. In right to work states, of course.

[spooky3]

11. I think you mean "employment at will" states. "Right to work" refers

To union security restrictions.

[ecstatic]

15. d'oh!

[spooky3]

18. Lots of people mix these up! Nt

[bluedigger]

34. Why would they want jobs when they're being paid to do nothing?

[Mr.Bill]

36. Because they will make way more money

and still have to do nothing.

[rubbersole]

10. Don't let the Titanic stateroom door hit you in the ass, Bill.

[grandpamike1]

14. Damn

I was hoping it was Mike Johnson. Drat.

[Hekate]

16. My heart goes out to the bastards

[pandr32]

17. Oh, darn!

[AllaN01Bear]

20. keep resigning. rs . is the special prosocuters on to u ? maybe we might get suff done w o thrm

[mysteryowl]

21. Okay, fine, but I will never trust repukes...

I would guess they are working on who of the democrats they can throw out to keep the majority, even before 2024 elections.

[angrychair]

23. Wow, that's crazy

This guy took the Speaker position knowing there was a possibility he would resign Congress to take an outside position?!?

Now we have to go through the absurdity of the Republican clown car to elect another Speaker.
Republicans are the living embodiment of a dumpster fire.

[thesquanderer]

24. Different Johnson. But still a Dick. n/t

[angrychair]

31. Lol

Just paid attention to the last name. I have been completely out of the loop through last several days trying to decompress from the normal news cycle and doom scrolling

[bucolic_frolic]

27. So what's he running from?

[Yavin4]

33. Given all of the chaos, mis-management, Trump, etc., it amazes me that the Republicans are still a viable

political party.

[walkingman]

38. They are not a viable political party. They only continue to exist because

their ideology matches the vast majority of Republicans. Sadly this majority is made up of white evangelicals. Their claim to be Christians is suspect since it goes against every tenet of Christians. Sorry people.

[PortTack]

37. He unofficially announced that a few weeks ago.

If they lose while waiting McCarthy’s replacement, I sure hope the Dems push thur aide for Ukraine!

[doc03]

39. It is great to see him go, he is an ultra MAGA nut. I can't believe they are

going to give him a job at any University. I have faith Ohio will find someone even worse.

[colsohlibgal]

40. Good News Bad News

Good for our government bad for Youngstown State.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

41. People are bailing on Maga mike

This makes me smile

[IronLionZion]

42. More Republicans should do the same

I guarantee a lot more bills would be passed with Hakeem Jeffries as speaker.

[WVreaper]

44. Why?

Why would any sane person want to be a member of the Republican shit show?

[qwlauren35]

46. Darn! Bill Johnson, not Mike Johnson.

I was hoping the Speaker had resigned.

[TheKentuckian]

48. Unfortunately, Sphincter for the Louse Micro Johnson

ain't going a damn place but to the 7th ring some day.

[live love laugh]

49. The newz is Republi-splaining the inertia for them lamenting how they had trouble getting speakers

but not why or exposing the dysfunction and corruption.

[SouthernDem4ever]

54. For one brief exciting moment I was thinking it was speaker johnson resigning.

I can hope.

[Deep State Witch]

59. Didn't See That One Coming!

Wow!

[Turbineguy]

60. Makes no difference

Republicans won't do fuck-all anyway.

[Griefbird]

61. Sounds like a great tactic

Since Republicans love money so much, they should be offered more lucrative positions (although it may be impossible to exceed the graft and grift they engage in now) to leave the House for greener pastures.