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BumRushDaShow

(165,175 posts)
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 07:42 AM Dec 4

Some House Republican women are in open revolt against Speaker Mike Johnson

Source: NBC News

Dec. 3, 2025, 8:23 PM EST


WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down a revolt from House Republican women. Several female lawmakers have been increasingly defying Johnson, R-La., on legislative matters and lobbing public broadsides at him — including a member of Johnson’s own leadership team.

This week alone, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., launched a discharge petition to go around Johnson and force a floor vote on a congressional stock trading ban, posting on X that she’s “pissed” that leadership isn’t moving fast enough on the issue while clarifying, “I like Mike.” Johnson prefers to go through regular order, and there has been an initial hearing on the issue.

Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the chair of House Republican Leadership, not only signed on to Luna’s petition but also publicly unloaded on Johnson over an unrelated issue in the national defense bill, suggesting in a series of social media posts that Johnson lied about the matter. The spat has seemingly since been resolved, but the bad blood between the two has long been simmering.

Asked about Stefanik’s broadsides in the Capitol on Wednesday, Johnson shrugged off the complaints and said he’s “not worried” about his standing “at all.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republican-women-are-open-revolt-speaker-mike-johnson-rcna247297



Johnson has created his own "Mojo Dojo Casa House".
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Some House Republican women are in open revolt against Speaker Mike Johnson (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 4 OP
Stock trading ban?................... Lovie777 Dec 4 #1
And Stefanik BumRushDaShow Dec 4 #3
Stefanik..... SergeStorms Dec 4 #6
They get plenty of money from stock trading with insider knowledge IronLionZion Dec 4 #4
Is this just "spaghetti brain"? get the red out Dec 4 #2
Stefanie complaining about a GOP House member lying. 😜 travelingthrulife Dec 4 #5
Yet they still fall in line 99% of them time. cstanleytech Dec 4 #7
In revolt, as opposed to just being revolting Bayard Dec 4 #8
What does his lard and savior Donny have to say? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 4 #9
The only reason Elise Stefanik mgardener Dec 4 #10
I hope they Icanthinkformyself Dec 4 #11
So just now you realized GOP is misogynistic tsktsk Dec 5 #12

Lovie777

(21,578 posts)
1. Stock trading ban?...................
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 08:01 AM
Dec 4

that has never stopped them before. Ya think they would be more concerned about healthcare for millions in their base.

BumRushDaShow

(165,175 posts)
3. And Stefanik
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 08:46 AM
Dec 4

had been whining about getting her provision to "root out" any "weaponization" by the "deep state", included in the NDAA.

Nothing about healthcare or "affordability".

Don't know how long the GOP "Stepford Wives" women will continue to rebel before being reigned in but...

IronLionZion

(50,728 posts)
4. They get plenty of money from stock trading with insider knowledge
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 09:39 AM
Dec 4

and save lots of tax dollars by letting their red state constituents die from lack of healthcare. It's an easy decision for selfish sociopaths.

get the red out

(13,943 posts)
2. Is this just "spaghetti brain"?
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 08:33 AM
Dec 4

Mike Johnson's help meet recently said in an interview "men's brains are like waffles, with "little compartments" that allow them to think about one thing at a time or even nothing at all. In contrast, she described women's brains as being like "spaghetti," in which all thoughts, concerns, and emotions—the "meatballs, the pasta, the sauce, the oregano"—are intertwined, meaning they "can't stop thinking".

Of course her husband stays in the part of the waffle that doesn't think since Trump takes care of that for him.

Bayard

(28,361 posts)
8. In revolt, as opposed to just being revolting
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 01:49 PM
Dec 4

They'll fall back in line soon enough, especially if trump has a little chat with them.

mgardener

(2,281 posts)
10. The only reason Elise Stefanik
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 04:18 PM
Dec 4

Said anything is because she is running for Gov of NY instead of running for Congress.

She is a moral coward. She never would have challenged him if her Congressional position depended on being compliant.

tsktsk

(8 posts)
12. So just now you realized GOP is misogynistic
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 08:06 PM
Dec 5

Stefanik, and Luna have no right at all to complain about poor treatment by MAGAAAAAH caucus. Where were they when Planned Parenthood was gutted. When Roe vs Wade was overturned. When mostly women professions were limited to 100 K student loans.
At least when maga Mike takes it in the a#s he politely says thank you while wiping the j#zz dripping from his rump. He does not complain afterward like these two idiots who have taken one load after another before finally realizing they were not eating pumpkin pie whip cream.
Stefanik wants to be NY Gov. talk about delusional. New Yorkers will chew her up and spit the shreds into the Hudson.
I feel disgusted for taking the few minutes to write this post. On the positive I do feel a minuscule amount more devilish.
signing off for now |-| O3

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