Timothy Birdnow

I generally like the Epoch Times. Solidly Conservative and little pandering. But this?

This was more a commercial for Mike Johnson and the RINO wing of the Party than a news story, or even opinion piece.

Here's a prime example:

"Asked by The Epoch Times if there are circumstances in which he would favor all-or-nothing House votes, Mr. Johnson noted that "President Reagan often told [his White House chief of staff] James Baker and other aides that he would rather get 80 percent of what he wants than to go over the cliff with his flag flying.”

The unavoidable reality, said Mr. Johnson, is that, with Democrats in control of the Senate and the White House, and House GOP having only a one- or two-vote majority, "Congress is a body built on legislative consensus, and, while there may be scenarios where it seems prudent to plant our flag and refuse to compromise, those decisions must be driven by consensus and also the possibility of success.”

Uh, Reagan actually got something for his troubles, something Mr. Johnson has yet to accomplish. He got eighty percent. We got the big Easter Egg.

Johnson acts as if he is powerless. He is not. He and the House can withhold funding for things they disagree with. Johnson simply refused to hold the line in that.

In fact, Mikey, why did the GOP not do anything when they had the majority in the Senate or the Presidency? You guys STILL refused to do anything. I suspect it was cowardice and not political realities as you try to claim.

Three times now Johnson betrayed the Conservatives. He funded Democrat priorities and killed regular order on funding bills, putting forth a massive, budget-busting omnibus. This after a huge effort to restore regular order and put out normal spending bills. This omnibus fully funded the FBI, including buying them new offices, thus taking any leverage away from Congressional Republicans investigating FBI abuses.

He reauthorized FISA despite the fact it was used to spy on Donald Trump and other Conservatives and was a tool to silence opposition. They should have faced serious budget cuts but Mike Johnson rode to their rescue.

So now the FBI can get a rubber stamp for any warrantless searches or seizures and there is nothing anyone can do to stop them.

In fact it was worse; there was an amendment put in place to prevent the FBI from doing completely warrantless surveillance. Mike Johnson cast the deciding vote to kill it.

The Johnson also had pledged to secure the American border before funding the war in Ukraine. Guess what? Our border is still wide open and the enormous Ukraine-funding bill was passed at the insistence of one Mike Johnson.

These are not the acts of a powerless man trying to get the best deal he can; these are the acts of a Quisling.

He also was quite sneaky about it, tying it to Israel funding (we had a golden opportunity to force Biden to veto Israeli funding and split him from the Jewish vote) and it was originally tied in with veterans funding so nobody would vote against it.

So to act as if Johnson is simply trying to use the "smart approach is bull. In fact his approach is the same tired and worthless one that has led us where we are now.

How, pray tell, does Johnson think the Democrats always seem to get their way, even when in the minority? Because they fight for what they believe and we have - Mike Johnson.

It's so bad Chuck Schumer and other Democrats are calling Johnson "their Speaker". And Johnson kept the Speaker's gavel not through Republican votes but by getting Democrat support. He has done such a fine job for them they backed him. Fat lot of good it does to have a Speaker supported by the Democrats.

I found this line horribly offensive from the Johnson:

"I believe that scripture, the Bible, is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority. He raised up each of you, all of us. And I believe that God has allowed and ordained each and every one of us to be here at this specific moment.”

So The Lord God Himself anointed Mike Johnson to surrender America in his mind. It doesn't occur to him that maybe he's doing what he chooses and rejecting the desire of God?

Johnson talks a lot about praying and God but then acts more like Judas Iscariot than St. Peter. He sold America out for fifty pieces of silver.

I would add Mr. Johnson bemoans the tiny majority the GOP holds in the House. Whose fault is that? He was the fool who expelled George Santos. Santos needed to go but wasn't that up to the people of his district? You don't kick out members when your in a neck-and-neck race. Does Johnson think the Democrats would have done what he did?

I don't know why we cannot get adequate leadership. Our side uses the same tactics over and over, tactics which have been proven failures. The ball moves ever Leftward as we don't really even try to hold the line.

If Mr. Johnson wants to bring God into this I will say God gives a nation the leadership it deserves.

Zechariah 11:4-17

4 Thus said the Lord my God: Be a shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. 5Those who buy them kill them and go unpunished; and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich’; and their own shepherds have no pity on them. 6For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord. I will cause them, every one, to fall each into the hand of a neighbour, and each into the hand of the king; and they shall devastate the earth, and I will deliver no one from their hand.

7 So, on behalf of the sheep dealers, I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. I took two staffs; one I named Favour, the other I named Unity, and I tended the sheep. 8In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me. 9So I said, ‘I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die; what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let those that are left devour the flesh of one another!’ 10I took my staff Favour and broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples. 11So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep dealers, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord. 12I then said to them, ‘If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.’ So they weighed out as my wages thirty shekels of silver. 13Then the Lord said to me, ‘Throw it into the treasury’*—this lordly price at which I was valued by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them into the treasury* in the house of the Lord. 14Then I broke my second staff Unity, annulling the family ties between Judah and Israel.

15 Then the Lord said to me: Take once more the implements of a worthless shepherd. 16For I am now raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for the perishing, or seek the wandering,* or heal the maimed, or nourish the healthy,* but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.
17 Oh, my worthless shepherd,
who deserts the flock!
May the sword strike his arm
and his right eye!
Let his arm be completely withered,
his right eye utterly blinded!

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