The present Home Speaker is lower from the identical fabric as Mike Pence: a tergiversating weakling who all the time fails to face for America First when push involves shove.
Mike Johnson is at a crossroads: proceed to appease the RINOs and Democrats within the Home, thus possibly preserving his Home seat by the November election, at which level it appears more and more possible, whatever the decrease chamber’s composition, that he will probably be changed with another person. Or he can stand with the American folks and Donald Trump by denying Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan an infinite stream of clean checks and as a substitute deal with the 2 most urgent issues at hand: securing the border and securing our election system to make sure President Trump’s victory.
Sadly, given the outcomes of the previous week, which noticed the Home cross yet one more practically $100 million package for the Ukraine, including to the billion {dollars} plus spent on all international expenditures that was a part of the decision, Johnson seems to be following Kevin McCarthy’s footsteps in siding with the Uniparty over MAGA.
Johnson is hardly the paradigm of a robust man, however final week’s determination – through which studies expressed that he was kowtowed by none apart from Democratic minority chief, Hakeem Jeffries, “to do the right thing” clearly reveals that the present Speaker is lower from the identical fabric as Mike Pence: a weakling who can’t stand on precept.
The outrageous show of Home Democrats brandishing the Ukrainian flag, amid chants of “Slava Ukraini,” the place Johnson solely meekly responded with “we should wave only one flag on the … House floor” struck the pathetic picture of a person in dire straits. Maybe resigned to his destiny as a lame duck Speaker on this dismal interim interval of American historical past, because the nation waits in virtually a catatonic state for the following administration, Johnson appeared worn out, exhausted, helpless — horrible descriptors for the supposed chief of the opposition occasion.
Johnson has acquired threats from members to his proper to be ousted from workplace. This previous week, in response to his signing off on the Ukrainian help invoice, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who first threatened to vacate the Speaker’s chair a few weeks ago, was joined by different Home members, including Paul Gosar and Thomas Massie. All three of them understand in Johnson a pacesetter who, as quickly as he was given the Speaker’s gavel, rapidly rolled over and capitulated to the Uniparty – together with, worst of all, the Democrats, who now fake to be his buddy as members from his personal Get together, annoyed by his efficiency, agitate for his removing.
Johnson after all in selecting to facet with the Uniparty on international spending not solely bucked the suitable flank of his occasion within the halls of Congress, but additionally the urgings of Donald Trump, who’s at the moment going by a legal trial in New York Metropolis, forcing him off the marketing campaign path, on groundless fees introduced forth by Joe Biden’s weaponized justice system. President Trump made identified his place on the Ukrainian bundle, asking why Europe was not footing the invoice for Ukraine, reasonably than us.
President Trump made identified his place on the Ukrainian bundle, asking why Europe was not footing the invoice for Ukraine, reasonably than us.
On a regular basis Individuals are nonetheless reeling from the decades-high inflation charges which have made the price of dwelling unmanageable, particularly for a center class that has already been largely offshored to China and different locations by Washington’s Uniparty consensus. Thus, Johnson, realizing how badly a whole lot of thousands and thousands of his fellow countrymen are struggling, ought to by no means have ratified extra spending on a international battle going down in a rustic most Individuals — and possibly even most lawmakers — can’t even determine on a map. This may be true in any time, however particularly now, when an estimated seven million international invaders, at the least, will cross the border beneath the 4 years of Joe Biden’s time period: a literal invasion, in each sense of the phrase, which may have devastating results on our financial system, tradition, and demographics, for probably a long time to come back.
Furthermore, as Johnson obsesses about what’s already a dropping battle hundreds of miles away, the present presidential frontrunner has been pressured off the marketing campaign path and right into a dank courtroom, his constitutional rights openly stripped within the course of by a rogue choose, district legal professional, and legal professional common, on the behest of a weaponized Division of Justice. This must be Johnson’s foremost precedence – day-after-day he must be asking himself the query: what can I be doing to battle towards the relentless lawfare of Biden’s DOJ? And but, to date, there have been crickets.
Quite than allocate another six hundred million dollars (at least) to the FBI to build a fancy new building, Johnson must be mobilizing Home Republicans to defund these companies – or on the naked minimal, start the preliminary talks for a recreation plan that may assist Donald Trump’s subsequent administration hit the bottom operating from day one. There are ample alternatives at this juncture, none of which have been pursued but, to mitigate at the least a few of the worst excesses of Biden Regime-orchestrated lawfare towards President Trump and his supporters.
The primary and most evident resolution could be to launch the remaining J6 footage to assist additional debunk the “insurrection” narrative that was propagated by the illegitimate January 6th Home Choose Committee for years on finish.
The second merchandise on the agenda could be to situation congressional subpoenas for Alvin Bragg, Jack Smith, Letitia James, and Fani Willis. Make these prosecutors seem earlier than a Home Committee and reply for what they’re doing to President Trump on tv the American folks. There isn’t a motive on earth why these prosecutors must be allowed to hijack an election yr – by whisking President Trump off the marketing campaign path for weeks on finish – with out accountability. That is the clearest instance of election interference in American historical past, and nothing else comes even shut. That is one thing that each Republican lawmaker, who cares in regards to the wants of their constituents, mustn’t merely comply with, however make their primary precedence.
If Johnson is so involved about appeasing Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries, he should not have any drawback in any respect subpoenaing Bragg and Willis, given how distasteful these characters are to the overwhelming majority of Republicans. Moreover, there isn’t any motive on earth why Johnson mustn’t pursue articles of impeachment towards Biden, for pay to play schemes involving his son, Hunter, which have turn out to be an object of scandal — and nationwide humiliation — over the course of the practically 4 years he has served in workplace.
Lastly – and maybe most significantly – Johnson should do all the pieces in his energy to stop the continued bloodletting of Republican Home members, through resignations and early retirements, which have solely additional eroded the Republican Get together’s already razor skinny majority. That is the final word check as a result of if Johnson is unwilling or incapable of stopping the bleeding now, it won’t matter whether or not there’s a movement to vacate or not. The Home may have turned over management to the Democrats earlier than Election Day, possible sabotaging President Trump’s hopes of re-election as a result of it will imply that Democrats would have full management of the legislative course of, and will then cross a invoice which may take away him from the poll, nevertheless unconstitutional which may in any other case be, with digital impunity.
It’s incumbent upon Johnson to current a transparent path ahead – or else be vacated from his submit for somebody extra competent, succesful, and constant to President Trump and his voters. Johnson has already displayed an unnerving propensity to make pacts with the satan; if he ought to proceed down that route, he may have offered out his countrymen for the Biblical equal of thirty items of silver – and no quantity of sanctimonious excuses to his Christian religion because the putative motive for why he did so will ever persuade the American public that he’s something however a weak and feckless traitor, who ought to by no means have taken up the superior submit he now occupies, for having proven himself completely incapable of wielding energy like a real statesman.
