Mikey's just pissing in the wind.

Yeah it could have because the draft was sitting in Committee and the Committee majority refused to release it for the full House consideration (debate/amendments/vote).

The Rule allowed the legislation to be forced out of the Committee with 218 signatures (a number that also corresponds to the majority of the members of the House), and it effectively does an end-run around the Committee and the SOH.

Most bills that get assigned to a Committee go there as their "final resting place", where a handful might actually be allowed out on the floor.

The SOH controls the legislative calendar.

Change the rules, lie and cheat. Republicans good at that.

Ugly Mouse face.

republic whenever he gets a chance......... he withheld all by himself the means of seating a duly elected representative from being sworn in for over 40 days after an election..........and now he wants to perform a rule change...............sounds like his underwear is getting a little tight and twisted...............

I predict: There's only about 6 more days this year for the House to be in session. Johnson should savor them; he'll be gone in January.

The House Calendar shows the House is in session four days a week for each of the first three weeks of December.

So what's happening on the ACA subsidies??

Every 13 years is “too common?” (What’s “too common” is the damn “shadow docket!”)

In history, presidents had to court Speakers and leaders of the Senate. They no longer do when faced with toady’s like Johnson.

Johnson has proven to be the most feckless Speaker in the history of the House. The one Speaker willing to cover-up something as heinous as - fucking children. (I meant to say that.). What makes him more despicable is his moralizing, his faux religiousness, and that he is a Constitutional lawyer who ignores its precepts.

Going back to Gingrich I have never had a good thought about Republican Speakers. The internal IN-HOUSE fighting over Boehner, Ryan, McCarthy, Johnson, and whatever Republican follows him is just more proof : Republicans cannot govern.

is a whiney, pissy little bitch.

Isn't going to be speaker much longer. Marge is probably getting ready to kick him to the curb, she was making noise to that effect a couple days ago.

I don't see why any Dem would vote for such a rule change, and I'd figure the usual rogues from the GOP side would oppose it as well.

And seriously? When a majority of representatives say they want a vote on an issue, why should one guy be able to stop that?

The Republicans must know they will soon be in the majority. They just might like the current rule to remain in place.

...to jam through their unpopular, undemocratic, ideas.

Changing the rules is the only way they can achieve success because they are only there to serve the 1%. Period. End of story.

You know what else is too common?

A pathologically lying malignant narcissist becoming president twice in eight years.

A pseudo-Xian lying toadie becoming house speaker, ever.

why not just do your job and get your house in order.