GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher Resignation Effective Today at 5 PM
The Republican will only have a two seat majority.
The House Republican majority dwindles to two votes when Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher’s resignation becomes official at 5 PM ET.
The ever-excellent Chad Pergram breaks it down for us. The Republicans can only lose two votes now:
House:
429 members
217 Republicans, 212 Democrats
Six vacancies: Late Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ) died. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) along with former Reps. Bill Johnson (R-OH), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Ken Buck (R-CO) and Mike Gallagher (R-WI) resigned.
The Republicans could gain another chair next week in a special election to replace New York Democrat Brian Higgins.
GOP WI Rep Gallagher resignation effective at 5 pm et today. GOP will only be able to lose two votes and still prevail on any given roll call vote
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This will be the new breakdown in the House as of 5 pm et. However, this may change next week after the…— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) April 24, 2024
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Gallagher hung around long enough to vote for more money for the Forever War in Ukraine.
Nice reasons to support Ukraine. I don’t know how the opposition to Ukraine support became a thing. Most of the support just authorizes old stuff on shelves that’s about to expire to be shipped out to be replaced on the shelves by newer models.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tXdDzjQL1A
But no serious attempt to secure the southern border of the US. As I recall Republicans supported that at one time.
Pretended to, anyway.
Until they didn’t.
That’s a bona fide point. But it’s not, by itself, an argument not to support Ukraine.
My opposition to Ukraine is because they can’t win. They don’t have the Manpower and they don’t have the industrial capacity. When your average soldier in your army is 47 years old, you cannot sustain your military anymore. I’m opposed to wasting billions ofI’m opposed to wasting billions of dollars sending weapons where there’s nobody to use them. Then, of course, there’s the whole money laundering operation that is ukraine.
Putin has domestic enemies and could get taken out by somebody in russia who doesn’t mind dying to do it. However dementia joe is too incompetent to facilitate that.
So let Ukraine do that themselves then 😂😂
No one can explain how long and what the goal is. Is the goal for the Ukes to take back Donbas and Crimea (that Obama gave Putin on a platter)? If so, how? If not, why not settle?
How did Obama give Putin Donbass and Crimea on a platter? I haven’t heard this one before.
Obama did a very aggressive thing against Russia. In the middle of the Sochi Olympics hosted by Russia, Russia’s chance to look good on the world stage and put on a great show, and they did that, in the freakin’ middle weekend of it Obama started Maidan, not all that far from Sochi itself. And all Russia could do was try to keep the Olympics safe and on track, then deal with that hostile revolution next door later.
The goal has always been to retake back Ukrainian territory. How long that takes isn’t really a consideration when it comes to your own sovereign territory is it.
So if they can’t win, they should roll over and die?
Or…and work with me on this, come to an agreement with Russian to end the war.
I mean the left is all hot and wet for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza but somehow when it comes to the war in the Ukraine the left turns in to the “never ending war” party.
True. The problem is that Biden doesn’t seem to have an endgame, other than a hyperbaric chamber. Of course, it’s unclear on a day-to-date basis whether Biden knows there’s a war. If he did, and if there were an endgame, then supporting Ukraine to get to a ceasefire from a position of strength would be a decent goal. Simply abandoning Ukraine at a moment of US weakness emboldens Russia, China, Iran, etc., etc.
Right. Where are the peace talks?
I don’t know how support for Ukraine became such a thing.
How about we just stop giving money to foreigners of all kinds and take care of Americans only?
Bribes for members of Congress, especially the Biden Syndicate.
China is the biggest trading partner of Russia. The only reason Russia can sustain this war against Ukraine is because of the financial help China is giving them. So do we cave in to China as well as Russia?
The GOP caved to China decades ago, JR. I’m surprised that an astute political observer such as yourself missed it.
Russia has more people abd resources and land than Ukraine. It is Ukraine who cannot sustain a war without our help.
Where have you been, douchecanoe? The Democrats and the current occupant of the WH caved to the Chinese years ago.
Can you explain how that is just billions of Biden bucks in storage …. old M1 tanks, old javelins, old patriot missiles, old kick backs…….
“The US confirmed on Wednesday that it had secretly sent Ukraine long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) last month as part of a $300 million arms package.”
I guess those were gathering dust in the “not used for a long time bin.” Sorry… the flushing out of old stuff excuse is… well… old
“Texas lawmaker Chip Roy recently revealed that only $47 billion of the $113 billion in Ukraine funding actually went to lethal aid. They’re not sure about the rest!”
So no, not just “old stuff off the shelf” at all.
In fact we have no freaking idea what most of our money is being pissed away on here. It could be bouncing right back into politician’s pockets for all we know.
No worries… it’s all being reinvested in the USA. If FJB can get 10% off the top, so can anyone in the political establishment. Easiest way to make millions…. get elected. Just remember to share your bounty with The Deep State.
Because it’s not ‘support’.
Ukraine is LOSING, and will CONTINUE TO LOSE, no matter how much money is sent.
Americans like to win, and they can see that just shotgunning money down the rat hole to pay off contractors and corrupt politicians while Ukraine loses slower is a stupid strategy.
Ukraine were doing just fine until Russian stooges in the GOP prevented aid going through. In fact the Ukrainians having been inflicting horrific casualties on Russia with the territorial losses being directly related to supply issues precisely because of US inability to supply ammo
I see you passed “Revisionist History 101”. `What caliber is used in Ukrainian main battle rifles? What ammo is used in Warsaw Pack weaponry that is identical to US weapons? Name one bill NOT passed for aid to Ukraine because of the GOP.
On what planet does a bloody war of attrition (which the Ukrainians will lose) mean “doing just fine?”
When are you Brits going to step up?
Old artillery shells. Old missiles. Old tanks – you are showing a hilarious level of ignorance. These arent tomatoes rotting on a shelf.
I think the opposition is not to Ukraine as a country. It’s in opposition to fighting a forever proxy war. This is like Bush in the ME all over again. If Biden weren’t a Dem, Dems would be calling for treason over it.
Ukraine is operating just like the Dems would want here. Banning religion, jailing politicians (like NOW), banning elections. Yep… birds of a feather.
Nancy Pelosi is grateful for your support for the Fascist Dems’ money-laundering client state.
As I understand it, he also hung around long enough to ensure there could not be a vote this year to replace his reliably red seat.
You cannot hate these people enough.
He’s the typical Republican in Congress that screws his district which he hates just as much as his communists pals across the aisle. I bet talks about his “”””principles”””” too.
The Real GOP thinks that they can eliminate the riffraff in the Party and recover fully in the years to come. Shift left to get the AWFL soccer moms and The Independents(tm)… Oh and get the Immigrant Vote ™. I hope someone keeps a list of these reps for “I told you so” separating of the chaff.
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IMO he basically gave the finger to his constituents.
No, he left because of the ardent Trump supporters who insist on having it their way or else. Even if it means the destruction of America. I believe that the Democrats really want to destroy America so they can build it back to their liking from the ashes. I now believe that the Trump supporters in Congress want the same thing. Sad.
Can you explain why you say that he left because of ardent Trump supporters?
Quit upvoting yourself.
“ I believe that the Democrats really want to destroy America so they can build it back to their liking from the ashes.”
You say this but then throw in a little equivalence to justify you’re continued Democrat vote because them deeeeerrty republicans, in your opinion, want to destroy America to rebuild it as they see fit 🙄🤔😂
You can’t really call it a “Forever War” as they will soon run out of Ukrainians.
The Forever War is a classic SF novel about a seemingly endless (not to mention brutal and senseless) interstellar war between humanity and an alien civilization. And although the analogy between the fictitious Forever War and the ones in Afghanistan and Ukraine cannot be pushed too far, there are still eerie parallels.
It was “forever” because the battles were fought over the galaxy with the travel to battle was over years using suspended animation. Time dilation. Endless failure would be a better term.
He hung around long enough that there would be no special election to repla e him. If he retired last month, that’s what would have happened.
He is being well taken care of.
I’m sure the board seat or college presidency somewhere with his name on it.
Now that Republican voters have all caught on to congressional vote shaving, the RINOs are moving on to congressional voter shaving.
You’d think there would be some obligation to voters whose vote you took for the duration of the term, in the era of lockstep voting.
Slowly giving the Congress to Democrats to stop Trump.
A Democrat congress will nullify the election
Many politicians of both parties value feeding at the trough over which political party has control. Trump is a huge threat to the way they do business.
Well, we owe it all to Trump that we have the Dems in control of the Senate. Remember Georgia? Remember the “big red wave”? It never happened, because of Trump. Because Trump told Republican voters in Georgia that the election was rigged against him, so they shouldn’t even bother to vote. So these stupid Trump Republicans believed him, and they didn’t vote, so we ended up with the Democrats in control of the Senate. Same thing will happen this time. But of course it will never be Trump’s fault. It will be because the election was stolen, just like Gore, Hillary, and Stacey Adams said their elections were stolen. All losers say their election was stolen. All peas in a pod.
It is easy to focus on just Georgia since it was a high profile contest that had a run off since no one got over 50% of the vote in November.. Even if the repubs win Georgia that makes it just 50-50 with Harris casting tie breaking votes. The problem was the repubs only won one of the highly contested senate seats in 2022 and that was Johnson in Wisconsin. They lost winnable battles in Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. If you want to assign blame to Trump why overlook Ronna Romney who was a complete failure leading the RNC.
In 2024 the dems have far more seats to defend with even more vulnerable candidates, if the repubs can’t flip it under these conditions they may never do it.
The 2020 election was the biggest fraud election in US history.
2018, the Democrat Propaganda Ministry had many Republicans seeing all the Trump attacks were running away thinking it was gospel and not all Propaganda
Tony Gonzales (T-23) is in a runoff next month with YouTube personality and 2nd Amendment activist Brandon Herrera. I haven’t seen any polling on the runoff. So, I have no idea who competitive this election is going to be. But, if Gonzales – a Swamp Creature – loses, it’s unlikely he would serve out his term.
At this point, I’ll be surprised if Jefferies isn’t Speaker before the end of the year.
It’s at least competitive enough that they forced a runoff against an incumbent. And let’s face it, Herrera has the best campaign slogan on record at the moment. Let’s go Brandon
Drove through his district two weeks ago. Saw scudloads of Herrera lawn signs, next to no Gonzales signs. I’m hopeful.
Gallagher’s behavior is unbecoming of a Marine but it is becoming of a piece shit pol.
One of the first things a Marine learns in bootcamp – ‘There’s always 10%’.
While the Rs will only have a tiny majority, their speaker will still have quite a large one made up of Democrats + Rinos.
I wonder what the CIA/FBI has on him?
We need to support Ukraine because 1) Russia is bad, because our media and the Democrats and Hawks say so, and 2) because.
Russia is bad because 1) they want to recover some strategic territory that’s been part of their colonialist patriarchy past and 2) because everyone says so.
So what if instead of just leavin’ Russia alone (while keepin’ a watchful eye on them) we piss them off, apply sanctions, arm the rebels fighting them in a small border dispute, piss them off more, and push them into a stronger alliance with our largest potential adversary, China? He would have done that anyway, because he would, you know? We know. Just like we know the oceans will swamp NYC, Miami, and Albuquerque.
Biden doesn’t owe Ukraine anything, since we all know the courts haven’t shown there’s any proof that Hunter and the rest of the Biden family benefited from any dealings with Ukraine.
Ukraine is the best democracy in the world, with open and free elections. And on top of that they love the poor long suffering Jews. They loved them so much back in the late 1800’s you could say they loved them to death. Why, the Russian (Ukrainian, actually) Cossacks loved my grandfather so much that they left quite an impression on him. On his skull. I still wonder why grandpa left Odessa on a steamer and came here. All praise glorious Ukraine, love you to death.
Yeah, I’ve got Ukrainian blood but it feeds a Boston Tea Partying, HMS Gaspee burning, Declaration signing Patriot body.
Let Ukraine wash its own stinking laundry. We’ve got enough problems as it is. Handing
out lines of cokemoney like it’s a frat party is so 70’s, guys. Get real or go home“Just leave Russia alone” Yeah… we’ve tried that in the past and it always costs us more in the end.
The GOPe has been engaged in a process of resignations and refusals to run over the last year in order to make sure that they give the House to the Democrats, assuming real elections in November. Today Democrat congresscritter Donald Payne Jr. of New Jersey died. Watch carefully. Sometime in the next week or so, another GOPe Republican will resign so that they can keep shaving down the Republican majority.
Subotai Bahadur
UPDATE: 4-26-24. Today a Republican Congresscritter from Florida made a surprise announcement that he was not running for re-election.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/26/florida-bill-posey-retirement-00154658
I was right above.
Subotai Bahadur
Gallagher is a despicable, lowlife, backstabbing sack of s**t.
Don’t hold back like that, it will raise your blood pressure. Vent!
RINOs are like bisexuals that haven’t crossed over yet. Liz cheney is also unemployed.
Instead of busting watermelons, this Gallagher just busts open any remaining semblance of fiscal prudence that we had left.
Well, this is what you get when the parties play Harlem Globetrotters and Washington Generals. What, you didn’t think they were trying to win, did you? The point is letting the other guys put on a good show.
I know this is off topic, but anyone else think its a shame that ‘tar and feathering’ went out of fashion?
it gave way to social media
Don’t be surprised if we see another resignation. There will be, I am guessing, some wildly lucrative think-tank ish job offers to more disaffected rino types. The financial provenance of these offers can only be imaged.
AGAIN
the non aligned omar dems and the rinos will OFFICIALLY form their own party after decades/centuries of acting as opposition to each other
they will be able to do so with ease as they claim the fringes of both parties have taken over
this MIGHT even lead to a euro style parliament vs our congress configuration arrangement we currently have for show
long live the queen ( well at leas the surviving members of the group)