Ken Buck Teases More Republican Resignations Are Coming
Source: Newsweek
Published Mar 13, 2024 at 3:20 AM EDT | Updated Mar 13, 2024 at 6:45 AM EDT
Colorado House Republican Ken Buck has hinted the GOP could suffer more resignations after announcing he will step down at the end of the week, further shrinking his party's already wafer thin majority in the chamber.
When asked by Axios whether he was coming under pressure from colleagues over his decision to resign, Buck replied: "I think it's the next three people that leave that they're going to be worried about."
The Context
Buck's move will reduce the number of House Republicans to 218, against 213 Democrats, at a time when Speaker Mike Johnson is already struggling to impose his authority over the chamber.
Once widely seen as a conservative hardliner, Buck has more recently attracted attention for opposing his colleagues' efforts to impeach President Joe Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/ken-buck-teases-more-republican-resignations-coming-1878601
marble falls
(57,181 posts)... before the election.
bucolic_frolic
(43,272 posts)the window?
marble falls
(57,181 posts)... if necessary.
KS Toronado
(17,316 posts)marble falls
(57,181 posts)Captain Zero
(6,823 posts)I'm pretty sure.
Omnipresent
(5,722 posts)nuxvomica
(12,440 posts)I know there's a chance Boebert may have to resign to enter the special election but I'm not sure she would be one of the three Buck mentioned.
AllaN01Bear
(18,374 posts)mopinko
(70,205 posts)but dont remember who. anyone?
nuxvomica
(12,440 posts)He called the Insurrection "banana-republic crap" and voted against impeaching Mayorkas.
https://apnews.com/article/mike-gallagher-retirement-impeachment-mayorkas-wisconsin-a125c50142905225ae58f7f36f9bd1e1
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)He's been backing out of even running for re-election all of a sudden. I saw something about a rumor of him and sexual impropriety yesterday, have to research that but if true, he'll be bailing sooner than later, I hope.
moreland01
(740 posts)Called Buck resigning a swamp maneuver. LOL I'm now thoroughly confused with who the swamp is supposed to be.
bucolic_frolic
(43,272 posts)Has he become tired of Boebert , Perry, Gaetz? MTG was the first ejected.
mcar
(42,372 posts)tanyev
(42,606 posts)sheshe2
(83,879 posts)calimary
(81,450 posts)electric_blue68
(14,933 posts)Deuxcents
(16,315 posts)SpankMe
(2,965 posts)They should be having periodic tag-up meetings, laying out flowcharts, conducting brainstorming sessions on almost a daily basis. They should be making tactical decisions as to where to place ads, when to place ads, how to mobilize the ground force...any level of granularity to get the house back ASAP.
With the house this evenly divided, a surgical operation is needed to get it back. Big picture stuff (i.e., sweeping discussions on policy) won't cut it in these razor thinly divided districts. It's down to pure tactics and engineering at this point.
orangecrush
(19,616 posts)Precisely.
PortTack
(32,791 posts)Cheezoholic
(2,030 posts)Dems could possibly take the house by doing nothing and use Matty the Rapists own stupid rule and make Hakeem Speaker. This is why many of us here were so adamant to just stay out of the original Speaker fiasco. They'll drive their own clown car off the cliff, they don't need any help lol.
sheshe2
(83,879 posts)PortTack
(32,791 posts)Novara
(5,851 posts)She can't run for his seat unless she resigns her seat.
I wonder if that was purposeful.
cilla4progress
(24,763 posts)Mwah ha ha!
DLCWIdem
(1,580 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)They could not be less alike!
et tu
(903 posts)there you go, let it all out and take it home~
moreland01
(740 posts)And don't worry, you can't get pregnant if it's rape.
/s
cilla4progress
(24,763 posts)Are you?!
OMGWTF
(3,974 posts)IOW, anyone who has any sense of decency is no longer welcome. I love how they told Nikki Haley's supporters that they aren't welcome either. Hahahahaha!
PlutosHeart
(1,287 posts)will be brave enough and smart enough to leave.
patphil
(6,206 posts)She would have to resign her seat first, since she's already an elected member until the end of this year.
But, if there is a primary, she could be beat by another Republican, and thus be left out in the cold.
Given the strong majority of Republicans in Buck's district, I expect the special election will elect another Republican, but if the above scenario played out, the Republicans would be down to 217 for a while.
NY-26 special election on April 30th to replace Brian Higgins should easily go to the Democrats.
That could leave the House at 217 to 214!
I know there are a lot of "ifs", but I'm sure it's keeping Republicans up late at night worrying about their hold on the House.
underpants
(182,876 posts)Shes at best third in the polling in CO-4. She will be out 🤞 after the June 18th primary.
You are right, if she wants to run in the special election she has to resign her current seat and its unlikely she wins the special. Her act has worn out and
patphil
(6,206 posts)He knew he was out due to his anti-Trump stance, so he saw a way to take Boebert out also.
Captain Zero
(6,823 posts)as an independent in the special election and split the republican vote enough to hand it to a dem.
ProfessorGAC
(65,160 posts)...her tantrum post today says she's leading that race by 25%.
She couldn't be lying, could she? That's hard to believe.
Blue Owl
(50,491 posts)Traildogbob
(8,795 posts)And weed the traitors out? That would do much more good, fight for democracy, dont just run away as a coward with your pensions.
Shipwack
(2,170 posts)I understand the sentiment, but he's still a conservative. Just because he doesn't support fascism doesn't mean he will vote with us, or for our agenda.
For years we've had two members of Congress that were Democrats in name, but opposed us and backstabbed us over key legislation. I don't care that they voted with us over naming post offices or standard budget measures; Mancin and Sinema are the reason we don't have voting rights legislation, a better healthcare system, and better wages.
There is such a thing as having too big a tent...
moreland01
(740 posts)Nope, we don't need to start up ANOTHER blue dog democrat caucus. Just got rid of the remnants of the last one!
Traildogbob
(8,795 posts)We had a woman run as a Dem here in NC and switched on the day after being elected, on our dime, that gave NC GQP a supermajority.
And F Tulsi Gabbert too.
Hopefully all the non Nazi QPukes will just leave Moses Mike helpless and have to turn Speakership over.
I do however take issue with the cowards just running with pensions in tack and just say fuck the country I will be fine with tax funded retirement and health care.
Grins
(7,228 posts)Primaries are finished or soon will. If they resign now who fills in for the election in Nov.? How pick a candidate?
God, this is so good!
padah513
(2,505 posts)He said he was the third ranking member on one of their committees, and they made him speak last. Was that at yesterday's hearing?
Gaugamela
(2,496 posts)wrote a piece speculating that the Republicans will attempt to install Trump in January by challenging certain election results of any new Democratic representatives and thus retaining control of the House through January 6th, and then following it up by refusing to certify electors from enough states to throw the Presidential election to the House.
If these Republicans resign, I expect it's to deliberately hand the House to the Democrats in order to thwart this possibility. That said, I'll believe it when I see it.
moreland01
(740 posts)he's smoking the good stuff these days
The House membership now will not be the same as that on 6 Jan 2025. They have to win every single seat they have now in November. And that's not a given. If the House achieves a Democratic majority (which has a far higher likelihood than them succeeding at a Congressional coup), all of their plotting and scheming would be for nought.
Even if they manage to hold onto the House with the same membership intact, that doesn't mean every r will vote for throwing the votes to Congress. All it takes is a few of them voting against it to kill any chances at a seditious coup. I know people don't want to believe it, but plenty of them objected last time. Plenty of them will do so again if they're re-elected.
This is one of those scenarios so unlikely (for now) that it's little more than the same kind of random speculation about what one would do if an alien race invades from Antares, or found a treasure chest stuffed with Spanish doubloons on a beach. Might be interesting to contemplate, but v unlikely to happen.
Lunabell
(6,105 posts)he is definitely a patriot. We can disagree and be civil at the same time. Like it used to be...
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pfitz59
(10,390 posts)Political seppuku seems the order of the day.
BumRushDaShow
(129,413 posts)I loved the original with Richard Chamberlain. Have to put the new one on my (very long backlogged) watch list!
ificandream
(9,386 posts)Still, we can dream, can't we?
BumRushDaShow
(129,413 posts)(D)s will have 214 members versus what should be 221 (R)s (that is currently down to 219 due to 2 vacancies, and will be 218 once Buck goes).
If 3 more (R)s went before any of the "late" special elections happen to fill the current 2 (R) vacancies (figuring any additional resignations would have even later special elections), they would briefly be down to 215 (R) - 214 (D).
The fact that he was so specific about the number (3), is probably why the article got written.
BlueKota
(1,780 posts)for more loyal Trumpers to run in their place or the ones leaving are just sick of dancing to Trumps and his whacko followers tune?
BumRushDaShow
(129,413 posts)although I expect the loons are harassing them for being "RINOs" (or "worse" from their perspective, meaning "socialists", etc). And of course there are the death threats and doxxing that can happen from that crowd, so they are bailing before it gets to that point (if it hasn't gotten that far yet).
Because they are "individualists", they probably also had their own agendas that they wanted addressed through legislation and that was being hijacked by the MTGs and Gaetz's with poison pill "other things".
BlueKota
(1,780 posts)being individualistic. You think at least some more of them would be more concerned about their own political ambitions, rather than just being a dancing puppet for a lunatic.
BumRushDaShow
(129,413 posts)very few of them are willing to be a Ken Buck or even a Lynn Cheney and prefer to act with the "herd" (safety in numbers). So if they do decide to go, they would probably try to do it in little "groups".
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,413 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,413 posts)calimary
(81,450 posts)That's pretty thin, gotta say. Barely hanging on to a "majority", is about the size of it.