How reprehensible can the House Reeptards get? Apart from being Trump's lapdogs on every issue, they (well, Speaker Mike Johnson) are now blocking the swearing in of a newly elected member. I refer here to Adelita S. Grijalva, D-Arizona, who won a whopping victory over 2 weeks ago.
And yet she remains without an office to represent her constituents. Its doors are locked, with newspapers and internal mail piling up out front. Her offices both in Washington and back in her district — are closed, leaving the constituents of Arizona’s 7th Congressional District without representation or a single staffer who can answer questions as the government shutdown stretches into its second week.
This is in direct violation of the Constitution. It leaves citizens in her state of Arizona without lawful representation, and suffering harm on account of that absence.
And who is responsible? One little prick, the House Speaker Mike Johnson. Despite Grijalva’s victory more than two weeks ago, House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) has refused to swear her in to office. Why? Because the mousy little degenerate knows she will be the critical 218th House vote needed to trigger the discharge petition which would require the release of federal investigative files into Epstein’s crimes.
Most abominable, the phone lines do not even have a courtesy message telling constituents how to reach out to Arizona’s senators for help. The voice answering the phone in the Tucson office is a recording of Grijalva’s father, the late Raúl Grijalva (D). He’s the 11-term lawmaker whose death in March prompted the special election that his daughter won by almost 40 percentage points.
“It has nothing to do with Epstein,” the little pissant said Wednesday, after he crashed a news conference that Arizona’s Senate Democrats, Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly, held outside his office in hopes of pressuring the lying piece of snot into swearing Grijalva in.
Grijalva, in response to the continued stonewalling, said:
“I think that Speaker Johnson is taking the time to try to encourage one of the Republicans who signed on to the discharge petition to change their mind.”
Is she wrong? The onus is on the Reep weasel Mikey Johnson to prove it. That means swearing Adelita in immediately, no more bullshit excuses or lollygagging to dredge up more Reepo votes to counter act hers for the discharge petition.
The political gamesmanship leaves Grijalva, who turns 55 this month, a hostage in a political fight over funding the government. And that also leaves her constituents in southern Arizona, including several tribal nations that depend on federal resources, without any representation in the House.
The Constitution, in Section 2 of Article 1 is very clear: "When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fulfill such vacancies." In other words, ensure the representation is done most expeditiously. In the fragile and nascent Republic delay was not an option as it risked stability and coherence. Either Johnson adheres to the Constitution or he does not.
It's high time for Mikey to prove he's a man - his own - and not Trump's mouse.
See Also:
"MAGA" Mike Johnson - One Of Most Dangerous Repuke Cretins Of All Time? Yes, And See Why!
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Speaker Election Of "MAGA Mike" Johnson Shows GOP Still In Trump's Maw
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by Heather Digby Parton | October 10, 2025 - 5:32am | permalink
From the moment Donald Trump hit the campaign trail in 2015, he promised the American people he would replace Obamacare with a plan that would offer “such great health care, at a tiny fraction of the cost — and it’s going to be so easy.“ He said, “nobody knows health care better than Donald Trump.“ Ten years of similar promises have shown that replacing the Affordable Care Act wasn’t so easy after all — and that the only health care plan the GOP ever truly wanted was one called “you’re on your own.”
Obamacare is, overall, a successful and popular program — the Republicans’ worst nightmare. So naturally, drunk with power as they are, they’ve decided to take another stab at ruining it, which is why they decided to let the subsidies that have been in place for the last five years lapse. Experts say this will cause premiums to skyrocket and force many to go without health care. Restoring these subsidies is Democrats’ main demand in the government shutdown battle
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With the federal government now officially shut down, the House of Representatives has a lot of time on its hands. All the action is now centered in the Senate, where all but three members of the Democratic caucus are refusing to go along with Republicans to pass the House’s continuing resolution — or the Senate’s own alternative — that would reopen the government and extend funding at current levels until Nov. 21.
House Democrats have made a point of staying in Washington, D.C., to continue working. Meanwhile, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana sent his caucus home to wait out the shutdown — and to apparently avoid swearing in newly elected Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona, who represents the final vote needed to pass a discharge petition requiring the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
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