House GOP faces revolt from within

| 6:00 pm EST January 22, 2024
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Ah, the wild beauty of a pink and golden sunrise. When the sun begins its first-morning awakenings and peeps its head out to welcome us, alight in color, there are few things more stirring.

And somewhere over the horizon, as people laugh and welcome in a new day, lies a fork in the road. It waits there quietly — waiting to see if the person- or in this case, the people- will choose wisely. I somehow doubt that they will. The people approaching this fork are the GOP. They have a choice. And they’ve just been made aware of that.

Reportedly, Speaker Mike Johnson has been served notice — and the word is if Republicans lose the 2024 election — he’s out. Actually, some are saying he will be out before then. The GOP is on the precipice. They are facing a revolt.

Politico reports that Johnson may not even last that long. Angry infighting and bitter mumbles of broken promises are consuming the GOP. Texas Rep. Pete Sessions came out and admitted that if the GOP loses — Johnson’s out. Perhaps he should start packing now because the GOP WILL lost. It’s when not if.

But you see, the Republicans have a choice. Right now, they face the possibility of a wipeout in November. If they would stop taking away women’s rights, stop fighting over all speakers great and small, and actually DO something — some WORK — — well, they would still lose, but at least they would have a moderate amount of respectability back.

Alas, Republicans are destined to take the wrong path. They always do. In that regard, there is more bad news for them. The murmurings say that if there are significant GOP losses, ALL the leadership members could be on the chopping block — including Steve Scalise and Tom Emmer.

Do Republicans know a crisis is looming in front of them? Would they care if they DID know? The answers to these questions are no and no. I believe these people will stay in denial, carefully keeping their heads down, like meek ostriches, trying their best to block out the white noise that will not stop playing in the background.

They will never choose the right path — they simply can’t. For Republicans, it’s not just that they need help seeing the fork in the road, the possibility to take the right path. It’s not just that they have trouble seeing it. It’s that they don’t even know it’s standing right in front of them.