'Embarrassment': Mike Johnson skewered by colleague as 'worst House speaker in US history'
Source: Raw Story
October 31, 2025 9:58PM ET
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) tore into House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Friday's edition of MSNBC's "All In" for continuing to keep the House shuttered for business, accusing him of "surrendering" the authority of Congress to President Donald Trump.
Johnson continues to hold the House closed because he wants the Senate to vote on a clean resolution to open the government the Republican majority has already passed. However, some observers have also accused him of engineering the closure of Congress as a ploy to prevent any action on a bipartisan discharge petition to compel the White House to release the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files, which are expected to further embarrass President Donald Trump for his role in the scandal.
"I think I just saw that the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, has notified that next week will also be recess, which means I think that's a sixth, is that right?" said Hayes. "That's a sixth consecutive week that he's keeping the House out."
"Yeah," confirmed Raskin. "I mean, he has completely surrendered the legislative power of the people. This is the people's representatives. And so he's just lied, lying down and capitulating completely to Donald Trump and whatever he wants to do. It's a disgrace and an embarrassment that means he will go down in history as the worst speaker in the history of our country for doing this."
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson-2674255742/
Irish_Dem
(77,969 posts)Trump should be paying him.
All he does is kiss Trump's ass.
Dulcinea
(9,449 posts)He works for the Fascist Felon. Americans will go hungry & without health care because Job One for Mikey is to protect his Lard and Savior, who sure as hell isn't Jesus.
Irish_Dem
(77,969 posts)Lovie777
(21,134 posts)the USA went from the one of the respectable leaderships to a embarrassment, laughing stock and most dangerous country in the world.
Mexico, Columbia, Valenzuela are gearing up from attacks from the USA.
WTF.
Johnson, Thune, the 6 US SC, are a failure for democracy.
markodochartaigh
(4,639 posts)Republicans get control of a governmental agency they run it into the ground. Now they have control of the House. Who can feign surprise that they are running it into the ground.
Much of the US has come to believe that "government is not the solution, government is the problem". Now they will find out what it is like without a government to assist the 99% and for the 1% to live off like parasites.
BOSSHOG
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A total fucking embarrassment to family and Louisiana.
One cant help but wonder if trump has something on him. After all its just one big gaggle of perverts and backstabbers. But they bow their heads and pray Christians. And millions voted for THAT.
Mme. Defarge
(8,866 posts)Im beginning to think that to be a Republican in congress it may be a pre-condition.
BOSSHOG
(44,136 posts)FakeNoose
(39,493 posts)Lonestarblue
(13,125 posts)There isnt a decent nor competent human being among them.
debsy
(707 posts)Because the butt licker wont swear Adelita in.
paleotn
(21,175 posts)BumRushDaShow
(163,346 posts)My congressman is unable to do any work on his Committees because Johnson is holding the U.S. House of Representatives hostage in order to continue the cover-up of the Epstein files.
efhmc
(15,934 posts)and those few from other districts in Texas.
paleotn
(21,175 posts)I use to live in NC -11 when Mark Meadows was my congress critter. I felt like taking a long, hot shower every time I saw or heard the bastard.
Seinan Sensei
(1,258 posts)And taxation without representation for thee
sez Mikey Johnson, to the nation
While the House is not in session, the people that have a Representative in Congress can still talk to their Rep's staff, ask for help with issues, etc. what's known as constituent services. Congresswoman-elect Grijalva does not that capability since she has not been sworn in, hence she has no staff, no official email, no ability to provide services to her constituents.
Jilly_in_VA
(13,517 posts)My congresscritter's (Ben Cline, VA-06) staff is about as helpful as horseshoes on a sheep. Which is to say, not at all.
BumRushDaShow
(163,346 posts)For those with GOP Reps, those Reps had been directed to avoid their constituents - Republicans advised to avoid in-person town halls after confrontations over layoffs go viral
And good luck if they don't hit a "mail box full" when calling to leave a message.
Johnson has in essence, "dissolved" the U.S. House of Representatives.
debsy
(707 posts)calimary
(88,519 posts)Hey, constituents, youre on your own! But hey, thanks for the nice vote!
My dad had a favorite phrase: IGMFU. It stood for I Got Mine. F U. Thats the GOP motto. I wouldnt be surprised if a few of em actually had that motto framed and displayed somewhere that gave them extra satisfaction.
This is truly taxation without representation.
CanonRay
(15,808 posts)since there is no House of Representatives.
Paladin
(32,023 posts)Democratic leadership, THIS is what we need so much more of, immediately: hard-edged, non-stop public shaming of trump's enabler pimps, like that gutless little weasel, Mike Johnson. trump's insane overreaching is making him less popular, and more vulnerable, by the day---we have to take a strong and principled stand against him, every chance we get. Newsom, Pritzker and Raskin are providing vivid examples of what needs to be done---let's all get busy!
paleotn
(21,175 posts)The man is a stinking, infested garbage heap. Oh, but he luvs Jebus!!!
Gore1FL
(22,745 posts)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(130,983 posts)He was called Moe for short.
Still Moe Howard did more for charity than Mike Johnson ever has done.
LilElf70
(1,206 posts)that this POS is still in there. For that matter, all the POS' in this administration.
The collusion, the corruption, the total ignorance for the constitution...... It just goes on and on and on. These toopid f'ers live to kiss the fake ring.
Yep, it's sickening.
Meanwhile, people, including children, are going to start starving.
Borogove
(331 posts)republianmushroom
(22,078 posts)willingly gave it to that POS in the WH.
cstanleytech
(28,048 posts)Grins
(9,100 posts)Bayard
(27,794 posts)(Sorry, can't find a clip that will copy.)
NoMoreRepugs
(11,723 posts)Frasier Balzov
(4,729 posts)just to get the House of Representatives open!
Chasstev365
(6,735 posts)How humiliating for Mikey.
Trust_Reality
(2,255 posts)NNadir
(36,943 posts)...the worst speaker, all to protect an unintelligent, uneducated, orange Pedophile.
Who ever thought a great nation could be destroyed to protect a pedophile?
Wonder Why
(6,371 posts)the name of a repug who had the guts to make the comment.
Aussie105
(7,408 posts)Spineless, sad little guy!
There is security in following a Dictator! Until that Dictator is deposed of course.
Once Hitler was off the scene, as in dead, those who supported him faded like snowflakes in the sunlight.
Unless you wore a uniform of course, then you went to court and often, the gallows.
But there are many who don't want to learn from past history. Right, Mike?
Are MAGAts in government and their supporters on the street just anarchists?
Tear it all down, stand back and expect something 'better' to bloom spontaneously?
History says that just doesn't happen that way.
(*) Get you what? Nothing much, just total destruction of the Government, disruption of peoples' lives, the government and the forces of law turning on people. Mike thinks he won't be affected, true MAGA thinking, so he is OK with all that.
Jack Valentino
(4,030 posts)because he is protecting pedophiles.... ?
(Maybe I lost track, can they still do that ??)
((OF COURSE, the HOUSE would have to be working for a living, first....
and not 'out of session' ))