Any questions that Mike Johnson is the most horrible piece of garbage in Congress. He scheduled the impeachment vote on Tuesday because Rep Green was going into the hospital.
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Speaker Johnson: We Were Counting on Democrat to Be In Emergency Surgery During Impeachment Vote
A ghoulish way to run the government.
Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans were shocked as their impeachment resolution against
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas went down in flames on Tuesday by a vote of 214-216. Republicans
Ken Buck,
Tom McClintock,
Blake Moore, and
Mike Gallagher voted against the measure. Moore changed his vote to a 'no' at the last second for procedural reasons, after
Democratic Rep. Al Green arrived straight from the hospital in a wheelchair and scrubs to make what would be the deciding vote.
Johnson and House Republicans were infuriated by Green's presence at the vote, and apparently had not counted on this possibility. In fact, the vote was planned with Green's absence in mind. Speaker Johnson planned the vote for Tuesday because he thought the Democrats would be down a vote while Green was in surgery.
In other words, Johnson, in the most ghoulish way imaginable, tried to exploit a member of Congress's emergency surgery in order to pull a political stunt in the House of Representatives. As
Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko put it, "What he really said 'We tried to cheat but we were caught.'"