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applegrove

(129,475 posts) Tue Dec 2, 2025, 12:37 AM 17 hrs ago

Mike Johnson's Red Alert on Lawmakers Quitting

Mike Johnson’s Red Alert on Lawmakers Quitting

December 1, 2025 at 7:54 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 53 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/12/01/mike-johnsons-red-alert-on-lawmakers-quitting/

“Members of the House of Representatives are quitting Congress at a record rate, with Republican retirements and resignations outpacing Democrats by a nearly 2-to-1 ratio in the first 11 months of the year,” Axios reports.

“In previous cycles, the party with more departures tends to lose seats — if not the majority.”

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Mike Johnson's Red Alert on Lawmakers Quitting (Original Post) applegrove 17 hrs ago OP

Death by a hundred cuts. marble falls 17 hrs ago #1

Your leadership, or lack of, sucks, Mike. Deuxcents 17 hrs ago #2

I just read a Quora thought that enough reps quitting would make Jeffries become Speaker off-the-clock 17 hrs ago #3

The ones quitting know that DFW 16 hrs ago #4

So they will save their own skin, but not the country or other Americans. Irish_Dem 13 hrs ago #5

They may be deserting their own sinking ship DFW 13 hrs ago #6

Exactly, they are rats leaving the ship. The rest of us are on our own. Irish_Dem 12 hrs ago #7

marble falls

(69,952 posts)

1. Death by a hundred cuts.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 12:39 AM

17 hrs ago

Deuxcents

(25,058 posts)

2. Your leadership, or lack of, sucks, Mike.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 12:54 AM

17 hrs ago

off-the-clock

(310 posts)

3. I just read a Quora thought that enough reps quitting would make Jeffries become Speaker

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 12:56 AM

17 hrs ago

If true and that happened it would be quite a turn of fortune

DFW

(59,526 posts)

4. The ones quitting know that

Reply to off-the-clock (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 01:23 AM

16 hrs ago

They won’t just pick up and disappear from one day to the next. Not enough of them. It would take ten immediate Republican vacancies in the House for Jeffries to be able become Speaker. The departing Republicans know this. Most of them will try to time their departures so that Johnson can hang on. Their disappointment with their own party does not extend to handing us the House.