Thursday, October 26, 2023

Speaker Election Of "MAGA Mike" Johnson Shows GOP Still In Trump's Maw

 


                                      "Yeah, losers, ya can say Mikey is my bitch."

"This is not an upgrade. It is Jordan in a more palatable package — evidently smoother, seemingly smarter and, therefore, potentially more effective".-  Ruth Marcus, 'How Dangerous Is Mike Johnson?', Washington Post

"The findings in this year’s Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) annual American Values Survey are a disturbing reminder that, regardless of the political fortunes of four-time-indicted former president Donald Trump, the MAGA movement he spawned has radicalized millions of Americans." - Jennifer Rubin, 'Republican Radicalization Takes Its Toll', Washington Post

It was totally understandable yesterday, when newly elected GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson was buttonholed in the halls of congress, he smirked when asked by media about his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election.  Alongside him, a GOP hag named Virigina Fox bellowed "Shut up! Shut up!" at the insolent reporter.  Johnson chuckled, playing dumb but make no mistake he's playing coy. As Janice remarked, he's deliberately making dummies and stupid swing voters think he actually changed his spots from  refusing to certify Biden's election on January 6, 2021. 

But he has not changed spots.   His "fingerprints were all over the insurrection" and as MSNBC's Chris Hayes further remarked last night on ALL In:  

"They are unbound now and they are ready to try again to overthrow the government." 

 Rep. Jamie Raskin reinforced that take of a brazen, unapologetic Traitor and added these points about "MAGA Mike" for viewers to process:

-  He has consistently voted to oppose contraception rights

- He is 100 percent in favor of a national abortion ban, no exceptions

- He has voted against women traveling across state line to get abortions, even making such acts felonies.

-  He has voted to increase the Social Security eligibility age to 70.

Raskin then added this comment: 

"He is a 'true believer'  who would be rooting for Gilead if he was part of a 'Handmaid's Tale' miniseries."

Even more disconcerting, this fool knows nothing, nada, about the basics of House machinery and actual governance.  What we have is merely a Trump tool in place to create havoc- and only two steps removed from the office of the presidency.    

What we have also learned from this fiasco is that the so-called GOP moderates are nothing of the sort.  They are pro-MAGA suckups and butt kissers who all deserve to go down in flames in the next election in their Biden districts.

Get set for a Mega-Maga shitstorm when the country faces the next government shutdown in 3 weeks.

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Does MAGA Mike Johnson's Election Prove All the GOP has Now is Hate?
by Thom Hartmann | October 27, 2023 - 7:16am | permalink

— from The Hartmann Report

The election of Louisiana’s Mike Johnson as House Speaker proves the premise that all the GOP has left are Donald Trump and hate.

As Congressman Jamie Raskin told reporters yesterday:

“Donald Trump has cemented his control over the Republican conference in the House of Representatives. He has a stranglehold on the Republican Party. Even as he faces 91 criminal charges and several of his election lawyers have pleaded guilty now to election-related offenses, one of his enablers on January 6 has just become the speaker of the House Representatives.”

Johnson’s hate of Democrats is so deep that he led a Trump-backed effort in the House to get Republicans to back a lawsuit by 18 Republican state attorneys general to overturn Biden’s election as president.


































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New House Speaker Mike Johnson is More Dangerous Than Jim Jordan; Christian Evangelicals Elated
by Bill Berkowitz | October 28, 2023 - 5:54am | permalink

“We prayed for a strong, pro-Israel, America First Speaker of the House who was committed to biblical truth and God answered our prayers.”
— Tony Perkins, President Family Research Council

New Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is more dangerous than Jim Jordan. He’s less combative and combustible, more likable, clearly smarter, a better dresser, there’s no wrestling sexual harassment scandal in his past, and he believes he has God on his side. A great admirer of the faux historian David Barton — a right-wing culture war icon — one can see him negotiating with the Biden administration over a myriad of issues, including aid to Israel and Ukraine, and avoiding a government shutdown. Which culture war items he intends to attach to any possible deals remains to be seen.


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Speaker Johnson Lays Out His Impossible Agenda
by Joan McCarter | October 26, 2023 - 7:26am | permalink

— from Daily Kos

Newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson emerged from the 22 days of chaos created by his colleagues as the last man they could stand to vote for. That landed him smack-dab in the center of the frying pan of disorder that is a government just 23 days away from running out of operating funds. Never fear, Johnson said in a letter to his colleagues earlier this week: He’s got this. That display of confidence is the first tell that this inexperienced lawmaker, elected in 2016 and with no history of leadership in the conference, is in for a doozy of a ride.


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