Democrats’ support of House Speaker a welcome change

Marjorie Taylor Greene will fail to oust Speaker Mike Johnson

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May 2, 2024 - 12:24 PM

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/TNS

A rare outbreak of sanity in Washington: House Speaker Mike Johnson will hang on to his job. Democrats say they’ll help defeat the GOP malcontents trying to oust Mr. Johnson, and to call this episode from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a stupid and futile gesture would be unfair to Bluto.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his leadership colleagues said on Tuesday they’ll vote to table Ms. Greene’s procedural move known as a motion to vacate the chair. “If she invokes the motion,” a Democratic statement said, “it will not succeed.” As California Rep. Pete…

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