The Louisiana Republican announced on Wednesday morning on an all-staff call that he will not run for House minority leader for the new Congress next year, following Tuesday’s historical Democratic landslide takeover of the House of Representatives.
It’s not clear yet if Johnson has anointed a successor to lead the Republican caucus. Representative Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has already thrown his hat into the ring and announced he’s running for House minority leader. According to Punchbowl News, Jordan’s pitch will be that new blood is needed and that he specializes in investigations.
The current number two Republican in the House, Representative Steve Scalise, also announced that he is running for caucus leader.
This guy?
The guy who’s parents probably dressed him like an old man with a briefcase from the age of 5?
The guy who looks like he went to boarding school as a kid, soil himself regularly and noone liked him there because he would tell on everyone?
The same guy who was most likely never invited, even out of sympathy, to any parties in University because he still dressed like an old man with a briefcase, never got laid because of his Oedipal complex, and would rat his entire alumni out for a pat on the head from the professors?
That guy?
Colour me absolutely fucking unsurprised. He made less effort to hide his wretched being than Grima Wormtongue.