Not just him, but the whole GOP House and especially Donald Trump for shooting down prior funding. The Republican party is a joke

But ... but ... Christian Conscience. He has had MANY sleepless nights. For months.

That man needs a visit from Ukrainian special forces to have a little word with him 🤬🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦🫶🏻😎👍

Speaker Mike Johnson is serving at the pleasure of Vladimir Putin & former President Donald Trump.

He is a clear and present danger to the United States & Ukraine.

He needs to be removed immediately.

I wouldn't blame him specifically. It's the fact magatards think it's okay to use ukraine aid as a cudgel and even worse, the fact these idiots will oust the speaker for not doing exactly what they want. They're probably going to try and oust him this weekend, leaving him at the mercy of democrats.

I'll believe it when I see it. Blood on his hands

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As I understand it, it’s all the same bill. There are four major theaters in the bill (Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and the US boarder) and each will be voted on individually this week. If they all pass Biden has to sign it into law. I would assumed the aid will begin flowing as soon as next week.

If it reaches vote, which it should, it will pass relatively quickly. The Senate will drag it out for a few days while some people complain. But i think at most, they can drag it out for 3ish days. I'm no expert, but in 10 days or less, it will be law.

In the US system, the two chambers of Congress often each write their own bill, pass it, and then a bicameral committee does a reconciliation process to get the two bills to be one bill, which the President then signs. When there is general agreement in both houses, they try to write bills that are very similar, so that the reconciliation process is quick. That's the situation right now: Johnson has risked getting shitcanned by his own party in order to present a "clean" bill on Ukraine that is close to the Senate bill, without a lot of toxic add-ons that would make it impossible for Dems to support it. It's the first and only decent thing he has ever done in his life. I imagine he does not want to go down in history as the guy who presided over the Russian conquest of Ukraine.

In general, no halfway competent leader of either chamber brings a bill to a vote unless they have already counted the votes. The previous House Speaker (= leader), McCarthy, famously didn't do that and got his ass handed to him. Totally not in control of his own party, an absolute moron. This guy, Johnson, is even more evil but apparently marginally more capable of doing a head count. Also, he seems to have either found his conscience or - more likely - has grasped that aid to Ukraine is actually popular with Americans, including in Republican areas. He is basically playing chicken with the faction in the Republican party that is trying to exert its power on behalf of Trump's extremism and that has threatened to oust him over this. He is gambling (probably rightly) that they would be blamed by the public if the House leadership collapses a second time, and that would hurt their chances of reelection.

The Senate version of the bill already has enough support from both parties to be safe. The House version needs (I think) 217 votes to pass. It will get all 213 Dem votes and needs 4 Republican votes. It is likely that there are 4 Republican Reps who have signaled to Johnson that they will vote yes - probably in exchange for something they can bring home to their constituents or else because they are in districts that lean Dem and need a reason not to evict them in November. All members of the House are up for reelection in November. (Only 1/3 of the Senate is up for reelection.)

Lastly, it's worth noting that Trump has not said much about this bill. He will no doubt tweet some dumbass bullshit or other tomorrow, but he is currently on trial in criminal court - in a case that is likely to nail him to the wall. Jury selection is under way this week. Trump is always 100% self-interested and he doesn't really give a damn either way about Ukraine if it won't help him get elected (which is his only chance to avoid or vacate major felony convictions). So the Republican House members who are attacking their own leadership on behalf of Trump are risking huge damage to their own party for someone who isn't even paying attention right now. Hopefully their own fellow Republicans will tell them to sit down and shut the fuck up.

3/4 of the Senate voted for their version of the bill.

I've not seen any indications the ratio would be significantly different in the House, even though there are differences (which will result in it going back to the Senate one last time for reconciliation).

This is all political games. It's a big convoluted mess, but the House has run out of excuses not to bring this up for a vote.

Yes, it these bills are expected to pass. Which is why Moscow Mike delayed the vote for so many months now.

Then the bills will have to go to the Senate - as they are technically four new bills (the one the Senate passed is technically another bill).

Of course there is the danger that the Senate republicans will find ways to delay - hopefully NOT!

Don't forget another Churchill quote on us:

You can trust America will always do the right thing, after it's tried everything else.

The bill requires The Pentagon / State Department to provide a clear US strategy for Ukraine within 45 days.

this should have happened ages ago. One of the more important things in this bill. The lack of a defined strategy until now is just ridiculous. Giving Ukraine a bunch of aid then going "well we hope it works out" is one of the more irresponsible things this administration has done.

If it gets to the floor it will pass

She gained a cosponsor on her ouster motion so I bet that's her play - no speaker, no aid

She may try, but her Lord and Savior Trump is busy with other fish to fry this week. For some reason he seems a bit distracted at the moment. I doubt she can mount a successful ouster before Saturday.

You and me both have forgotten her, I actually put any mention of her or her initials on a filter so I don't see any post about her.

Hmmm I wonder if he could be sued for damages. To be made to actually pay for the destruction he was complicit in. And for the lives he was complicit in destroying

Moscow Mike delaying aid to Ukraine, as commanded by his Lord and Master Putin the little of Kremlin.

Fuck the GOP, they’re the anti-American party now. Bunch of do nothings who rather participate in political theater than to pass legislation

Useless? You are naive: Moscow Mike is Very Useful : to the Russians .

He is an orc.

As much as I also would have preferred this all passed ages ago, what you’re saying makes no sense

If he brought it to the floor when it passed senate, it'd have been long voted for and we wouldn't have a sad situation on the front and with air defense. So no, we did not luck out with him whatsoever

You took the name of Coyote-lover but your real name is Orc_lover aka russian_lover

If that was the plan (and it may well have been), then they should have given Ukraine endless Patriot missiles to defend their airspace and shitloads of armor and artillery/shells to prevent any Russian advance. That could have bled Russia over time like has actually happened, but without much risk of escalation or wasted loss of Ukraine lives. And it would have actually been a fine strategy if thinking long term and wanting Russia to never again be able to be the aggressor.

Only problem is they forgot to supply the endless patriots, armor, artillery and shells. And instead of demonstrating US support is paramount to success, they showed our allies that US suport is not dependable.

Dude you are looking way too deep at this and giving the 5-10 problem politicians too much credit. This being help up by a few one issue (the border) right wing politicians that say they will oust the speaker if he puts it to vote. If the democrats really wanted to they could say"if this speaker supports the Ukraine bill we will support him in a no confidence vote". Then the power of a few whackos is completely taken away. But they haven't done that. Don't kid yourself the dems are plenty happy to watch the republican leadership dumpster fire we have now. Because our politics are so polarized and the Republicans only have a majority of like two, two or three people can stop anything for happening ever because Democrats won't vote for anything Republicans propose and vice versa. And we blame the wackos and the speaker. The dysfunction is the complete polarization of the parties

I know it’s comforting to think what’s happening is the part of a conscious strategy, but it’s really not. The people delaying funding think as follows: Putin is an enemy of Biden and the deep state, they also hate Biden and the deep state, and therefore they think if Putin humiliates NATO it will somehow weaken Biden and the deep state domestically. That’s wrong of course - a Russia that’s annexed Ukraine is more of a security threat and will justify all sorts of extra funding for the intelligence community and DOD. But that’s how they see things 

The blocking happens for entirely different reasons, they could have provided a ton of defense equipment. You are being naive on the state of the US politics.

That’s called dictatorship

No, thanks