Slaying the three-headed monster of GOP malcontents: SCOTT JENNINGS reveals why Speaker Johnson WILL defeat radical nut Marjorie Taylor Greene, fellow fame-hungry anti-Ukraine hardliners... and pass his vital $95B aid bill

General Custer had Little Bighorn.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has Kyiv.

Surely, the final defeat of the GOP three-headed monster (Reps. Greene, Matt Gaetz, and Lauren Boebert) won't be as dramatic as the 7th Cavarly's last stand. But it'll be driven by the same suicidal hubris.

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson took a huge step Thursday toward passing a multi-billion dollar aid package for Ukraine, even as a handful of hardliners threatened to end his political career over it.

This Me-First caucus of fame-hungry, political opportunitists has been empowered by a House rule that permits a single member to challenge the Speaker with a 'motion to vacate the chair' and, perhaps, oust him from power.

You might remember this 'motion to vacate' maneuver from October 2023, when Speaker Kevin McCarthy was defenestrated for negotiating a bipartisan compromise to keep the government from shutting down.

Considering the GOP's razor-thin House majority, it'll be all but impossible for Johnson to avoid the same fate. And Congresswoman/social media nut Greene is holding that threat over his head – unless he pulls the Ukraine bill from the floor.

But, Johnson's calling MTG's bluff.

That takes backbone.

General Custer had Little Bighorn. Marjorie Taylor Greene has Kyiv .

The final defeat of the GOP three-headed monster [Reps. Greene, Matt Gaetz, (above, right) and Lauren Boebert (above, center)] won't be as dramatic as the 7th Cavarly's last stand. But it'll be driven by the same suicidal hubris.

Florida Man Matt Gaetz and his sidekick, cinephile Lauren Boebert, also stepped to the microphones outside the Capitol building on Thursday to soak up their moment in the spotlight.

'Do you support [a motion to vacate] now?' a reporter asked.

'We got more time in the day,' Gaetz mused.

Boebert silently nodded.

Greene, who has made her name by becoming the leader of the know-nothing radicals in her party, is doing everything she can to sabotage the bill and she's not above parroting Russian propaganda to do it.

'You have to ask,' she said on a local radio show in March, 'is this money and is this United States military equipment falling into the hands of Nazis in Ukraine?'

For the record, the President of Ukraine is a Jewish man – and his country is in a fight for survival against a murderous Russian dictator whose interests are served by that Nazi smear.

So, the answer to Greene's disingenuous question is a resounding 'no'.

But now, having failed to convince her colleagues to vote against Ukraine aid, Greene is threatening to cast the entire GOP caucus into chaos – yet again.

Johnson could certainly lose his speakership over this. It'll only take a few right-wing mutineers to cut his speakership short.

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson took a huge step Thursday toward passing a multi-billion dollar aid package for Ukraine , even as a handful of hardliners threatened to end his political career over it.

But here's why Greene and Co. have finally blundered their way into a box canyon ambush… Mike Johnson doesn't care.

'I am willing to take personal risk [to put the Ukraine bill on the floor] because we have to do the right thing,' he said on Wednesday.

As Russia threatens to turn the tide against Ukraine, Chinese Communists hungrily eye Taiwan and Israel trades missile strikes with Iran, Johnson has said: Enough of the dysfunction. This Republican-led House will govern.

When the House votes Saturday on five separate bills to provide a combined $95 billion in military aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as well as other GOP foreign policy priorities and a border security bill – the weakness of the fringe will be exposed.

Greene and the smug wing of the GOP have convinced themselves that fewer than a dozen lawmakers matter more than the entire Congress.

Saturday will prove that they don't.

Trump has now endorsed Ukraine aid in the form of a zero-interest loan with an unlimited lifespan – and on Thursday, the former president acknowledged, for the first time, that Ukraine's survival is important to the U.S.

This revelation cannot come soon enough for Republicans.

More dysfunction would be a humiliating distraction going into the 2024 election.

The American people expect their elected officials to vote on the most pressing issues of the day – not play procedural games and hide in their offices.

Most crucially, facing a general election, Donald Trump recognizes that - despite a core constituency in the GOP opposing Ukraine aid - there is a strong bipartisan majority in America that wants to push back against Vladamir Putin's aggression.

Trump has now endorsed Ukraine aid in the form of a zero-interest loan with an unlimited lifespan – and on Thursday, the former president acknowledged, for the first time, that Ukraine's survival is important to the U.S.

The Republican party has had it with these self-centered shenanigans.

All it took was one man with the courage to finally say – enough!