Bulwark Takes - Speaker Johnson’s Outrageously Hypocritical Censure of Rep. Al Green

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

Tim Miller breaks down the House vote to censure Rep Al Green for disrupting Donald Trump's address, including 10 Democrats voting for the censure, and why Mike Johnson's call for the censure is hypocritical given the GOP's similar interruptions in the past.

Hey guys, it's Tim Miller from the Bulwark. I just saw that the House of Representatives censured Representative Al Green for his protest during Trump's address to Congress earlier this week. Representative Al Green be censured with public reading of this resolution by the Speaker. the house had come to order the house had come to order this is fucking so outrageous i i have to rant about this but just in case anybody missed it here's a clip of of al green on the floor of the chamber shouting at Donald Trump. That's your warning. Members are engaging in willful and continuing breach of decorum, and the chair is prepared to direct the sergeant at arms to restore order to the joint session.

Take your seat, sir. Take your seat. Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum, the chair now directs the sergeant at arms to restore order. Remove this gentleman from the chamber. All right, so there it was. As a result, the House of Representatives, all of the Republicans with 10 Democrats voted to censure Al Green for this behavior.

Mike Johnson called it shameful and egregious and saying it disgraced the institution of Congress. You are a fucking shameful and egregious disgrace to Congress, Mike Johnson. Mike Johnson was one of the organizers of the effort to challenge the election and take votes away from American people in Pennsylvania and other states. And obviously, that's not the steel effort led to the attack on that capital. Like Donald Trump is the president is a clown who behaves horribly constantly. Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt where they used him and Russia. Russia, Russia, Russia. You ever hear of that deal? That was a phony. That was a phony Hunter Biden, Joe Biden scam. Hillary Clinton, shifty Adam Schiff. It was a Democrat scam. And Mike Johnson never has anything to say about that. Joe Wilson shouted, you lie.

You lie. It's not true. I could just go on and on. This is just silly. At least have the dignity, if you're a Republican, at least have the dignity to just be like, we don't care about behavior anymore. All right. Like we have put somebody that that bragged about grabbing women by the pussy against their will into the White House. Somebody that attacks people constantly makes fun of them,imes them uh demeans them makes good does cruel

nicknames lies about people like downturn is just a sick person at least you know i saw a tweet earlier from matt gates who was like defending the tate brothers andrew tate uh and saying that ron desantis and the other republicans that were criticizing andrew tate were just virtue signaling like at least matt gates has the courage of his convictions he's just like i just support everybody being a fucking asshole prick all right like at least that is consistent all right it's bad it's wrong but at least it's consistent don't fucking come and tell me that you're pearl clutching now oh i'm pearl clutching because al green was shaking his cane on the floor and i oh this is egregious oh we care about behavior now we care about acting normally like we we want people to respect the room where our supporters smeared shit on the

walls when they were trying to steal the election like just just don. Just don't. And as for the Democrats, we're going to read their names. Ami Berra, California. Ed Case, Hawaii. Jim Costa, California. Laura Gillen, New York. Jim Hines, Connecticut. Jim was on this page yesterday, so I got a word for you, Jim. Chrissy Houlihan, Pennsylvania. I like Chrissy Houlihan. Marcy Kaptur, Ohio. Jared Moskowitz, interviewed him last week. I like Jared Moskowitz, Marie glues and camp Perez, Washington. Love Marie glues and camp Perez, Tom Swazi, New York. Um, what are you guys doing? What are you guys doing?

Okay. Like what you think you're going to get credit for this? You think people are going to say, Oh, you're consistent here. Like you could give a statement saying you disagree with Al Green. You wish you would have behaved differently. You're saying you wouldn't have behaved that way. But like the idea you're going to censure your colleague for speaking out and protesting Donald Trump. Like if I was a Democrat and Mike Johnson put this preposterous censure on the floor after the way that he and his colleagues have behaved,

I would just say, censure my balls, Mike Johnson, censure my fucking balls if you want, but I'm not going along with your charade. All right. I understand some of these Democratic Congress people think that, um, you know, they need to take the high road, maintain integrity, show that they're different, show that they're serious. And I think that there are times when that is called for. But there is no reason to go along with their farce. Okay? There's just no reason to do it.

If you have an issue with Al Green, you can privately say so. You can tweet that you disagreed with it. Put out a press release. But to vote for an official censure with Marjorie Taylor Greene is ludicrous. I'll give you a copy. I'll get, I'm glad for parents. I say my heart. So there it is. Um, Al Green, you keep doing you as far as I'm concerned. All right. Do I think that was the most effective protest in history now? But does he have the right to get up there and give Donald Trump the what for? Absolutely. And I could use more Democrats expressing their outrage at the horrors that are surrounding us right now. And so as to Mike Johnson and all the Republicans in these 10 Democrats, you can keep it, you can stuff it. And going forward, I hope that the Democrats in the House don't play their games,

don't go along with their games. All right, that's my main message.