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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums🚨BREAKING: Speaker Johnson, in what appears to be a direction from Donald Trump, has decided to remove Rep. Mike Turner
Well, gee---Susy Collins is not concerned so Johnson can proceed!!
🚨BREAKING: Speaker Johnson, in what appears to be a direction from Donald Trump, has decided to remove Rep. Mike Turner as chair of the House Intelligence Committee, according to Punchbowl News
His “sin”? He’s too pro-NATO, too supportive of Ukraine, and “too close” to the intelligence agencies.
Turner confirmed the news and told CBS’s Margaret Brennan that Johnson cited “concerns from Mar-a-Lago” as justification for the removal.
This is extremely concerning!
Link to tweet

Callie1979
(638 posts)is a piece of shit? There are so many to choose from.
Callie1979
(638 posts)there sure is.
a kennedy
(33,174 posts)🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬
sop
(13,399 posts)Deuxcents
(21,576 posts)Prairie Gates
(4,689 posts)We have to live with it.
rampartd
(1,803 posts)Prairie Gates
(4,689 posts)And we should not.
Rafi
(238 posts)regarding the secret work being done on recovered NHI craft. Ridicule if you wish, but why block the legislation if there is nothing to see?
Callie1979
(638 posts)The whole "pocket of defense contractors" is as old as time.
Mountainguy
(1,650 posts)Like the ones from space...
Callie1979
(638 posts)Rafi
(238 posts)Please quote.
NHI = Non-Human Intelligence.
Unless you are saying that animals are building flying crafts or that they have become self-aware then you are talking about aliens.
Your thinking is way too limited. we'll leave it at that.
Mountainguy
(1,650 posts)No intiendo.
Autumn
(47,620 posts)BoRaGard
(4,721 posts)bunch of snivling submissive grovelers who will not stand up for the people of the USA.
LetMyPeopleVote
(160,865 posts)House Speaker Mike Johnson said Donald Trump wasn't involved in the decision to oust the chair. There's reason to believe otherwise.
https://bsky.app/profile/actiontogethernj.bsky.social/post/3lfunie2v2k2z
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Donald Trump wasn't involved in the decision to oust the chair. There's reason to believe otherwise.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/speaker-johnson-oust-partys-intelligence-committee-chair-rcna187931
It’s against this backdrop that the beleaguered speaker made yet another highly provocative move on the panel formally known as the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. NBC News reported:
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has informed Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, that he will no longer be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, according to a GOP leadership source and a Republican lawmaker familiar with the matter. The lawmaker said Turner told him Wednesday that he would not be staying on as head of the critical panel that conducts oversight of the U.S. intelligence community.
Turner confirmed in a written statement that he’d been stripped of his intelligence committee gavel, though the Ohioan did not explain why, exactly, he’d been demoted....
If those reports are accurate, they lead to a rather obvious question: Why would the president-elect oppose Turner staying on as the chair of the intelligence panel? To understand Trump’s possible motivation, consider this paragraph from the Times’ report:
Mr. Turner, a mainstream conservative who has represented southwestern Ohio in the House for more than two decades, has at times been critical of Mr. Trump’s actions. He broke with the majority of his party on Jan. 6, 2021, and voted to certify Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s 2020 election. He has also been a leading proponent of supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russia, breaking with the “America First” stance of the president-elect and many others in his party.
Indeed, it’s probably fair to say that among House Republicans, Turner is among the most enthusiastic supporters of backing Ukraine in its war against Russia, and the Ohioan has championed the NATO alliance.....
In 2014, I referred to John Boehner as the “Speaker in Name Only” because the then-GOP leader struggled to get his own members to follow his directives, leaving him effectively powerless when trying to legislate.
More than a decade later, as Johnson owes his tenure to the president-elect, there’s reason to believe the “SINO” title is poised to make a comeback
Initech
(104,396 posts)Fuck Mar-A-Lago. I only want to hear concerns coming from the White House, not that shitty rat motel.
republianmushroom
(19,278 posts)Or maybe it was.
Xavier Breath
(5,454 posts)
Mountainguy
(1,650 posts)Don't think I'd be looking to make enemies in the House right now considering he's going to need almost every R vote to even get anything through to the Senate.
Despite all the worry in here about R control, I think the next 2 years are going to be full of infighting and deadlock more than anything else.
CentralMass
(16,091 posts)Mountainguy
(1,650 posts)I think their majority is too fractured and slim to legislate.
Oopsie Daisy
(5,564 posts)SalamanderSleeps
(759 posts)District
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1 Fitzpatrick, Brian R PA-1 Leans Dem
2 Lawler, Mike R NY-17 Leans Dem
3 Bacon, Don R NE-2 Leans Dem
4 Schweikert, Dave R AZ-1 Swing
5 Perry, Scott R PA-10 Swing
6 Kean Jr., Tom R NJ-7 Swing
7 Nunn, Zachary R IA-3 Swing
8 Wittman, Rob R VA-1 Swing
9 Steil, Bryan R WI-1 Swing
10 Kiggans, Jen R VA-2 Swing
11 Barrett, Tom R MI-7 Swing
12 Ciscomani, Juan R AZ-6 Swing
13 Evans, Gabe R CO-8 Swing
14 Mackenzie, Ryan R PA-7 Swing
15 Turner, Mike R OH-10 Leans Rep, but just got neutered by his own damned people.
If they were to switch parties the Orange Menace would burst into flames. It would be a broadside that the GOP would never recover from.
Like I said a boy can dream.
Still, what would happen if just enough of them defected to flip the House?
215/220 is not a particularly pronounced margin
Mountainguy
(1,650 posts)defections to hand the majority to D's.
Problem is our party isn't exactly big tent and welcoming right now. Folks here want to run sitting Senators out of the party if they get caught with Carrie Underwood on their spotify playlist.
Cha
(309,202 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(11,138 posts)rzemanfl
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rzemanfl
(30,489 posts)Inside of the tent pissing out and all that.