Johnson in Trouble

Timothy Birdnow

Mike "Tiny" Johnson is in trouble over his budget-busting CR as Conservative Republicans blasted the pork-laden steaming pile as "business as usual".

This 1,500 page bill had a number of add-ons, including funding for farmers, for rebuilding the F.S. Keys bridge in Baltimore, disaster relief funding, a big pay raise for Congress, a reautthorizaton of the DHS funding for regulating drones, etc. All to keep the government open AFTER an election.

Tom Massey went on record saying he will oppose Johnson's Speakership, for instance.

But of course the Democrats could save Johnson again - as they did in the no-confidence vote prior. And I suspect this is his paying them back for that, giving them what they want now since they kept his sorry posterior in office.

The real problem in our government are the RiNO Republicans. If we had control of the party we would make great strides, but these people (like Johnson) will sell their souls for another two years in power. And they have. Mike Johnson was a rising star among Conservatives; now he's just another in a line of weak and cowardly Speakers, on a par with McCarthy, Ryan, Boehner, Hastert, etc. As soon as these guys get the gavel they morph into Democrats. Personally I suspect they are blackmailed (I know Hastert was; he was paying bribes to a blackmailer to not bring up his pedophilic rape of a young man).

Anyway we need Johnson replaced pronto. He's not going to accomplish anything and will wind up obstructing Trump's agenda.

I have a theory that the top brass in the GOP in Congress don't WANT to win or accomplish anything. They want to keep the numbers very close then use that as an excuse to not take any action. That way they have campaign issues to run on, but don't have to worry about having a record to defend. Even worse I think they want to let the Democrats have their way because deep down they really don't support Conservatism or MAGA but like the big-spending welfare state. Just look at what they didn't do when they took control of both chambers of Congress last time; after years of promising "repeal and replace" Obamacare they did not send a single bill to President Trump to fix it. They did this based on the argument "we can't take something away from the Amrican People" but what did Obama do but take something away from the American People in instituting it? And the whole point was "repeal and replace" not just repeal. Obamacare is grossly unpopular (I know; I have had an ACA plan since it's inception and it's very unpopular with ME!) This was a winner! But especially Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan didn't want Trump to have any legislative victories because it would assure him re-election and they knew it. So they stymied him at every turn over everything. I would argue they actually purposely threw the last three elections prior to '24 because of "the Long Game" as McConnell is so fond of promoting. They figured they could afford to lose control of Congress to get their dirty work done and get rid of tat SOB Trump. So McConnell defunded many MAGA candidates who could win and wasted money on guaranteed losers back east so as to then blame TRUMP for the failures. Ryan was no better.

I remember when Trump was first elected; Rush Limbaugh gave the GOP sound advice "enact Trump's agenda". He argued that by enacting the agenda Mr. Trump won on (despite seemingly overwhelming odds) the GOP would prosper. Sadly Ryan and McConnell also heard that and did the opposite because they wanted to crush MAGA. And thus Trump was then a one-term President.

That appears to be what Tiny is trying to do now. He just promoted a disgraceful waste of taxpayer money ostensibly out of fear of being blamed for a government shutdown. But after Trump's election why would the REPUBLICANS be blamed for a shutdown? And why care; it's four years until the next Presidential and two years until the midterms. The public will have long forgotten this shutdown, and after the new Congress takes charge a more favorable condition - with a Republican Senate and President - will prevail. There was absolutely no reason to blow this huge wad of cash now.

Of course Johnson will blame the tight House numbers. AS usual. As planned. But of course those numbers are so tight because they lost a couple of Republican seats, one of which they simply threw away (in New York with George Santos, a fibber certainly but one they should have let remain until the election.) And don't forget Matt Gaetz, who Kevin McCarthy worked to get tossed out.

Santos was the first House member expelled in 20 years. So what was his terrible crime? He lied about being Jewish. (Funny; I seem to remember a sitting Senator who lied about being Cherokee.) He was also accused of fraud and misuse of campaign funds,but he did nothing worse than any other sitting Congresscritter. The Democrats simply targeted him because he won in "their" district and the GOP let them because of the reasons I mentioned above. Santos was only one of six House members ever expelled from that august body, and he was the only one ever expelled without being convicted of a crime.

(BTW Anyone remember the House Banking Scandal? How was that any worse than what Santos had been doing? Yet nobody was expelled, including John "fly my kite" McCain, who went on to the a thorn in our sides as Senator.)

According to the New People's Republic aka NPR:

This bears a striking resemblance to what happened to Donald Trump,does it not? It was clearly a concerted effort to take the man out.

Now, I'm not excusing Santos by any means, but am pointing out that the same methods employed against Trump were used against him, and the GOP led the charge in removing him despite the very narrow margin in the House. They could simply have left it up to the American People or waited for Santos to be charged and convicted. But they chose to kick him out without due process because they are either cowards or duplicitous. I tend to think the latter, at least where leadership is concerned. Everyone knew the Democrats would win Santos' seat.

Here is a database of misconduct by House members over the years. Yet almost all of these people remained in office under the theory that the voters should decide and not their representatives.

Anyway, Johnson has betrayed us yet again and will continue to do so as long as there are no repercussions. He is part of the Deep State whether he admits it or not. He talks a a great game but in the end he's just another Cryin' John" Boehner, who was a staunch conservative until he became Speaker then he became "Go Along to Get Along" Johnnie. Oh, did I mention he and Johnson have become great friends and he's a regular adviser to the current Speaker?

If Trump's popularity lasts until the midterms he should find a way of successfully removing Johnson. Johnson is not his friend - nor ours.

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