Speaker Johnson is a Mile Wide and an Inch Deep

By Rich Kozlovich

There's been a lot of outrage directed at Speaker Johnson, and rightly so.  Why?  Let's start with a bit of history.  

I save an inordinate number of articles, and in order to save them I create Gazettes.  Here's one I posted on December 6, 2023, and issues were already forming against Johnson, but between December and April, the bottom dropped out.  This is the gazette posted on April 24, 2024, and as you peruse these pieces you see the words, RINO, mole, traitor, betrayer, where he's accused of totally surrendering to the Democrats, and shows he took positions that can hardly be called moderate let alone conservative. 

Then it came budget time, and instead of having a open dialogue with his Republican colleagues, he collaborated behind closed doors with with the biggest RINO of them all, Mitch McConnell, and the two of most radical Democrat leaders there are, Chuck Schumer and that hand puppet for Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries for 87 days creating a 1500 page massively expensive, and massively corrupt, 1.7 trillion dollar CR, that no one could possibly have time to read, violating the 72 hour rule .. a second time...  shoving it down Republicans throats as a do it or else we shut down the government.  That is nothing but a corrupt scam.  A corrupt scam he had to be party of or this couldn't have happened.   According to Rep. Chip Roy they needed Trump, Elon Musk, and Vivek Ramaswamy to come in and cut it down from 1500 pages to 100 pages.  It wasn't Johnson who performed that feat.

Representative Massie, who has been against Johnson from early on says he won't vote for him because, "Mike Johnson Is the Next Paul Ryan", and is still leading the charge against Johnson in spite of Trump's support saying:

“I respect and support President Trump, but his endorsement of Mike Johnson is going to work out about as well as his endorsement of Speaker Paul Ryan. We’ve seen Johnson partner with the democrats to send money to Ukraine, authorize spying on Americans, and blow the budget...."

Then we have Rep. Victoria Spartz, who is really interesting.  She was was  born in Ukraine which was part of the Soviet Union then, and later migrated to America.  Spartz has a clear understanding of corrupt government,  says,  "we need assurances Speaker Johnson won't sell us out to the swamp." And she has reason to worry!

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However, Donald Trump has endorsed Mike Johnson’s bid to stay House speaker.  Given Johnson's history why would he do that?  Well, this whole thing presents a conundrum for Trump.  If there is no Speaker of the House when January 20th roles around he can't be President of the United States, no business can be conducted, and the consequence of that would be Senator Chuck Grassley, as President Pro Tempore of the Senate, becomes President, which has never happened in the nation's history creating unpleasant Constitution issues.  

So, Trump knows he needs to prevent a floor fight for Speaker right now in order to get his nominees for various offices in place as soon as possible because the Democrats will fight each and every one of them tooth and nail.  Will Johnson appreciate Trump's support and change his pattern of "leadership"?  Well, that didn't change Paul Ryan's direction and pattern of "leadership", and I don't think it will change Johnson's except he may be forced to change.  The Republican House is far more conservative than it was under Ryan, and not only will they will be watching, they will openly attack Johnson for his indiscretions. 

Will the Democrats vote for him as Speaker?  Not now, as this creates a vacuum they like, even trying to force the Congress to refuse to certify Trump as President, so a long floor fight for Speaker is great for them showing the Republicans are incapable of governing.  While you may hate Democrat governance, it's clear they know how to do it, and what they stand for, high taxes, massive regulations, big government deep state tyranny, and destruction of the Constitution, which is why they're call the Party of Treason. 

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