The GOP women of the House are voicing their frustrations with Mike Johnson, taking issue with his priorities and style as speaker.
Nancy Mace says she is sick of the way Johnson is running the house, taking particular issue with the way he is treating women. Crazy Mace is saying she plans to get together with MTG to discuss her own early retirement.
Mace isn’t unique with her criticism of Johnson though.
Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has worked around Johnson to address a forced vote on banning members of Congress from stock trading.
Elise Stefanik had a public spat with Johnson as well, calling him a habitual liar and saying he would not have the support to continue as speaker if a vote were held today.
- A congressional house aide, speaking anonymously, said that Stefanik should have been more gracious to Johnson for his generosity in creating a “fake job and a fake title” complete with office space in the budget for the New York rep — referring to “Chairwoman of House Republican Leadership,” created after Trump pulled her nomination as UN ambassador.
Other Republican women said privately that they felt Johnson was “culturally challenged” as an evangelical Christian, failing to listen and engage with them on major policy issues.
And then there were the women who were pressured to remove their names from the discharge petition that would force a vote to release the Epstein files. They said the pressure wasn’t only from Trump, but also from Johnson.
There are some women still supporting Johnson:
Lisa McClain, the number 4 Republican of Michigan, said that a gender divide in the conference was ridiculous because he has always shown her respect. “He values my opinion, not as a woman, but as a trusted colleague.” Indeed, Johnson recently noted that the house member he would most trust to cook him Thanksgiving dinner was Lisa McClain.
Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, who is the only woman chairing a committee, the Rules Committee, said that the insinuation that the women of the GOP were upset with Johnson was “as brainless as it is ignorant.”
Shut up, shut up!!
Women aren’t the only ones disappointed and complaining about Johnson openly, with members from all corners of the party predicting he may not last through the term.
There are those vulnerable to redistricting battles, and those who are nervous about competitive elections and desperate for a vote on extending ACA subsidies — which Johnson is blockading.
But many more are upset that Johnson kept them at home for almost eight weeks during a shutdown, and feeling that their year has been squandered when the Republican Party had complete control of government.
Womp-womp…