{"id":607761,"date":"2024-02-08T02:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T23:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/republicans-point-fingers-after-embarrassing-defeats\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T02:08:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T23:08:02","slug":"republicans-point-fingers-after-embarrassing-defeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/republicans-point-fingers-after-embarrassing-defeats\/","title":{"rendered":"#Republicans point fingers after embarrassing defeats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/johnsonmike_020624gn05_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>House Republicans are struggling to pick up the pieces after a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of crushing legislative defeats that highlighted the simmering strife within the GOP conference and triggered\u00a0new attacks on GOP leaders heading into a critical election cycle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night was not a good night for Republicans in the House, and anybody who says it was is not being honest,\u201d Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.) told The Hill.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Republican leaders on Tuesday barreled ahead with two votes they deem crucial to the party\u2019s messaging efforts: impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and providing military aid to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The two items could have served as messaging to counter a Senate deal that paired border reforms with aid to Israel and Ukraine, which House GOP leadership helped kill after rejecting it as inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, both of the measures failed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And in the aftermath of the floor fiasco, stunned rank-and-file Republicans are sifting through the ashes in search of who should bear the blame, dinging Democrats who rejected the Israel bill and Republicans who resigned from the House for leaving them with a razor-thin margin.<\/p>\n<p>Privately, however, some Republicans are directing their ire at Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), seeing the double defeat as a byproduct of his inexperience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, you give the guy some grace because, you know, he\u2019s newer, he wasn\u2019t in the room and kind of getting the training to lead up to this position as we had with other Speakers,\u201d said a GOP lawmaker granted anonymity to speak candidly. \u201cBut that was a really massive failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In the near term, the consequences of Tuesday\u2019s failures may prove inconsequential. Johnson is already lining up votes on both the Israel and impeachment bills next week, and the potential return of Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) to Washington will help in their passage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the longer-term ramifications may be more damaging, as Republicans are heading into a series of high-stakes legislative battles with President Biden over Ukraine funding and federal spending, and the back-to-back losses on high-profile bills this week have eroded some confidence in the Speaker\u2019s strategic chops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asked about criticism that he is inexperienced and remarks from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who said the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) had been an \u201cunmitigated disaster,\u201d Johnson suggested the conference was moving in the right direction.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWell, look, it was a mess what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened here, but we\u2019re cleaning it up,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI don\u2019t think that this is a reflection on the leader. It\u2019s a reflection on the body itself, and the place where we\u2019ve come in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson railed against Democrats for voting against Israel aid and said that the public is seeing \u201cthe messy sausage-making, the process of democracy play out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone, though, is assigning fault to GOP leaders \u2014 some Republicans are downplaying the pair of unsuccessful votes, spinning their shortcomings as delays rather than defeats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cYes, it was somewhat of an embarrassment that we apparently didn\u2019t know what the count might be, and that we lost that by one vote \u2026 But it seems that we can get it done next week,\u201d House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good (R-Va.) said.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said his \u201cPlan B\u201d for Israel aid is to bring it up through a regular process next week that needs a smaller margin for success, and that the chamber will vote again on the Mayorkas impeachment articles when the GOP has the votes \u2014 likely upon the return of Scalise, who was absent due to treatment for blood cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen things don\u2019t go right on the floor, you\u2019ve got to examine your leadership team and figure out what went wrong,\u201d echoed Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.). \u201cBut at the same time, you\u2019ve got to get on to the next piece of business. You can\u2019t overly dwell on it. I\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) offered another culprit: McCarthy, who resigned from Congress after his ouster in December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter our former Speaker left us \u2026 it kind of left us a little bit in the lurch,\u201d Burchett said. \u201cSo I think it\u2019ll be brought back up, and I think it\u2019ll be successful.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That willingness to assign blame elsewhere means that despite GOP frustrations with the votes, Johnson is unlikely to be in any im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te danger of being ousted like McCarthy was.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The unnamed GOP lawmaker added that Johnson probably gets more grace for his missteps \u201cbecause there\u2019s not an alternative, a good alternative, rather than because he\u2019s doing a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican leadership opted to bring up the stand-alone Israel funding bill Tuesday despite knowing it would fail to get the two-thirds support needed to pass under a fast-track process. Conservatives opposed the exclusion of offsets in the bill, and Democratic leadership said it would oppose the legislation, criticizing the decision to delink Israel assistance from Ukraine aid as a \u201ccynical\u201d maneuver to undermine the Senate bill.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson used the vote as an opportunity to criticize Democrats.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThere is no reason whatsoever for them to object to the contents of that bill. They\u2019re doing it for political purposes,\u201d the Speaker said.<\/p>\n<p>But coupled with the stunning failure to impeach Mayorkas, the failed vote did more to amplify GOP dysfunction than draw distinctions with Democrats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the impeachment vote, two GOP lawmakers \u2014 Reps. Ken Buck (Colo.) and Tom McClintock (Calif.) \u2014\u00a0had made their plans to vote \u201cno\u201d public, with a handful of other Republicans keeping their cards close to their chests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) quickly became the third GOP defector, casting his vote against the effort after refusing to reveal his stance all day. But Gallagher suggested GOP leadership should not have been surprised, telling conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that he \u201cwhipped \u2018no\u2019 for over a month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Top GOP lawmakers swarmed Gallagher on the House floor in what appeared to be an effort to convince him to change his vote.<\/p>\n<p>The final straw for Republican leadership was a surprise \u2014\u00a0and stunning \u2014 appearance by Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), who was not expected to attend the vote but was wheeled into the chamber from the hospital following surgery wearing blue scrubs and tan socks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The last-minute showing changed the math so that three Republican defections meant a tie-vote failure instead of passing by just one vote.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson gaveled out the vote, 214-216, solidifying another embarrassing loss by the slim GOP majority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a total miscalculation,\u201d the GOP lawmaker said. \u201cIt was only doubled by the fact that Mike stayed up in the chair during the whole thing, just sort of reiterating their miscalculation. It was <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>led by the fact that they followed it with a suspension vote on Israel that failed. So yeah, that\u2019s a mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, for his part, acknowledged that Republicans were caught off-guard by Green, telling reporters Wednesday: \u201cSometimes when you\u2019re counting votes, and people show up when they\u2019re not expected to be in the building, it changes the equation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), taking a victory lap Wednesday, said it is \u201cnot our responsibility to let House Republicans know which members will or will not be present on the House floor on any other day or in connection with any given vote.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2024 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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