Elaine Godfrey and Russell Berman: “Johnson’s personal members, up to now month, have accused him of stretching if not wholly disregarding the reality, and his assertion final Wednesday that he has a agency grip on energy was right solely in probably the most technical sense. On the day he uttered it, a bunch of Johnson’s most electorally weak troopers deserted him to assist Democrats power a vote on extending health-care subsidies, and a longtime lawmaker grew to become the twenty fifth Home Republican—with many extra anticipated to comply with—to announce that he wouldn’t search reelection subsequent yr.”
Stated Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY): “This place is disgraceful.”
“Within the previous weeks, a member of the speaker’s management staff—Consultant Elise Stefanik of New York—publicly denounced Johnson as ineffective (shortly earlier than she introduced that she was, for now, quitting politics altogether), and one other high-profile (albeit perpetually aggrieved) Republican, Consultant Nancy Mace of South Carolina, pined, within the pages of The New York Instances, for the sturdy hand of Nancy Pelosi.”
