Timothy Birdnow

It appears Mike "Tiny" Johnson is facing some stiff competition, Trump endorsement or no. Apparently the Woody Allen of House Speakers is in more trouble than we realized and will probably be put in power yet again by DEMOCRATS - like last time. They boasted then that Johnson was the "Democratic Speaker" because they pushed him over the top.

What are my thoughts on this? I think that Johnson will almost certainly be Speaker but he'll be bloodied some. And I think that is a good thing, by and large as Johnson has now screwed MAGA Republoicans over four times since assuming the gavel, completely betraying us to get a deal with Democrats. He talks a good game but plays a terrible one.

If we cannot get rid of him now, and get someone who will lead the GOP to victory, we will never do it. The House leadership has been dreadful ever since Newt Gingrich, frankly, and each and every Speaker has been the same; Establishment in voting, RINO in policy. And the GOP has failed to cement power in Congress thanks to that. Trump's huge win should have translated into a big win in Congress, but it didn't and that is because the leadership of Congress fumbled the ball. (I argue it was a conscious policy to keep Congress close so the Conservatives would fear challenging the RINO wing lest they lose their seats to Democrats.)

On the other hand we need to move swiftly to get Trump's people in place. But will that happen with Mike Johnson at the helm anyway?

Our problem was and remains getting control of the GOP. We've never been able to do that, and the RINO wing weathers these "outbursts" from the base from time to time, digging in and waiting us out. It's their time-honored strategy and we've seen them do it over and over. That's the whole problem; we need to remove all these milksop losers and fill the party with good Conservatives. Until we do we will fight both the Democrats and the RINO wing, who make common cause against US. (Not to mention the media which is always a powerful negative force.) Trump doesn't appear to have learned his lesson from his last Presidency; these guys act like your friends but are not.

BTW you will notice how quickly Johnson was able to negotiate a much better deal than the one he first urged on the GOP; that says it could always have been done and Johnson simply caved to the Democrats. Either out of unity with the uniparty and their big spending ways, or out of an irrational fear of a government shutdown (the Democrats, as the opposition, were the ones facing the heat on that). Either way Johnson got a much better deal than he at first urged us to accept. So what good is he? The Democrats probably would have accepted an even better deal from our perspective to avoid a public backlash against them.

The problem is, of course, who will replace Johnson. There is no good candidate that can get suppport from the RINO wing, and of course we are in this pickle because we kept the RINO's out of fear of losing seats to the Democrats, and that because the margin was far too slim. Cute trick.

My opinion is this fight is not helpful but we need to have it at some point so may as well have it now. Otherwise we're stuck with Johnson for two years unless his seat is declared vacant. And quite frankly, from what I've seen of his handiwork, it pretty much is vacant now.

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