Gingrich: “Selfish Idiots” Like “Super Narcissist” Gaetz Make It Impossible For Johnson To Control The House

“The truth is, I would blame head-on the people who are acting like selfish idiots. Johnson has the narrowest majority in modern times, and it’s not a true majority, because he’s got six or eight narcissists — people who think that they individually get to screw up everything. I’d start with Gaetz, but I would say the list goes on. He’s the super narcissist.

“So first of all, he [Johnson] doesn’t have a real majority. He has a technical majority for the purpose of organizing committees and theoretically controlling the flow of legislation, but he doesn’t have a working majority on the Rules Committee.

“He doesn’t have an ability to deliver 218 votes for virtually anything. He has 30 or 40 members who ideologically wake up every morning knowing that they’re gonna vote no — they’re not sure what the issue is, but they know they’re going to vote no.

“And then he’s got this last 30 or 40 [members] who need to do something to go on TV and send out fundraising emails, and they don’t frankly care if they screw up our party or the country, if that’s what it takes for them to be so important. So he has an enormously complicated job.” – Newt Gingrich, speaking Politico.

Advice to Speaker Johnson ‘You Can’t Govern By Shooting Yourself in the Head Every Day’ – Newt Gingrich https://t.co/fsEyVNFib4

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