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DFW

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4. The ones quitting know that

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

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 01:23 AM

21 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.

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Mike Johnson's Red Alert on Lawmakers Quitting [View all] applegrove 21 hrs ago OP

Death by a hundred cuts. marble falls 21 hrs ago #1

Your leadership, or lack of, sucks, Mike. Deuxcents 21 hrs ago #2

I just read a Quora thought that enough reps quitting would make Jeffries become Speaker off-the-clock 21 hrs ago #3

The ones quitting know that DFW 21 hrs ago #4

So they will save their own skin, but not the country or other Americans. Irish_Dem 17 hrs ago #5

They may be deserting their own sinking ship DFW 17 hrs ago #6

Exactly, they are rats leaving the ship. The rest of us are on our own. Irish_Dem 17 hrs ago #7