After a quite epic lesson in public humiliation because of his personal compelled errors, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) blamed “the physique” of the U.S. Home as a substitute of the “chief” (himself) on Wednesday.
CNN’s Manu Raju reported, “Speaker Johnson non-committal on shifting on Senate’s Ukraine-Israel-Taiwan package deal. Defends dealing with of agenda. Says course of is “messy.”
Requested him about criticism in ranks. Stated: ‘I don’t assume this can be a reflection on the chief. It’s a mirrored image on the physique itself.’”
Information — Speaker Johnson non-committal on shifting on Senate’s Ukraine-Israel-Taiwan package deal. Defends dealing with of agenda. Says course of is “messy.”
Requested him about criticism in ranks. Stated: “I don’t assume this can be a reflection on the chief. It’s a mirrored image on the physique itself.” pic.twitter.com/LK3pTUy655— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 7, 2024
Johnson is doing a variety of ducking and dodging accountable “divided authorities” and claims that is what democracy appears like. However in actual fact, Republicans tried to question DHS Secretary Mayorkas over the border, which they themselves have been refusing to fund as wanted since they got here into energy final yr.
On Tuesday, Johnson led the Home to a failed vote to question Mayorkas over points that he and his personal caucus are literally serving to to create.
The Republican Speaker didn’t deliver that impeachment vote because of dangerous counting. The ultimate vote was 214-216, with 4 Republicans becoming a member of all 212 Democrats in voting no. Johnson is blaming one Democrat displaying up unexpectedly for the failure, however definitely this isn’t a transfer we witnessed underneath Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who knew the best way to rely and the way and when to deliver votes ahead.
Johnson led his caucus into killing the bipartisan border deal that was brimming with giveaways to Republicans regardless that they’ve a slim majority within the Home and Democrats lead the Senate and White Home, which is one other approach of claiming they bought greater than they’d any proper to after which they walked away from the win as a result of Trump advised them to as a result of he’s planning on operating on the border and may’t afford to have it addressed previous to the election.
Republicans had insisted on tying assist to Ukraine to the border package deal as a approach to drive Democrats, who accurately see Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a menace to international democracy, into bargaining. So Republicans weaponized towards western democracy to get what they mentioned they needed on the border, since lots of them aren’t inclined to assist Ukraine, discovering their social gathering extra affiliated with Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.
By strolling away from this bipartisan deal, they put U.S. nationwide safety in danger and imperiled assist to Ukraine & Israel.
The Speaker (who in contrast himself to Moses at a Christian nationalist occasion, in case you had been questioning about his pondering course of) then tried to raise a separate stand alone package deal to Israel, however this additionally failed with 166 Democrats and 14 Republicans voting towards it.
In spite of everything of those failures yesterday, the person who thinks God selected him to be Speaker fled the Capitol, avoiding reporters.
In the present day, nonetheless, he stood there with a smirk on his face and blamed your entire physique of the U.S. Home, which is a not so delicate dig at some in his personal caucus who didn’t play ball together with his shell video games, in addition to blaming the “course of” of democracy.
Democracy as a course of was not a few slim majority in one half of 1 department of presidency hijacking your entire political course of to appease their criminally-indicted, adjudicated-rapist political candidate for the presidency.
Democracy is messy, however this isn’t what democracy appears like. We notice that Speaker Johnson doesn’t take heed to anybody however the MAGA department and the Boss, Donald Trump, who himself faces accusations of inciting a terrorist assault on his personal nation and tried to steal the votes of the vast majority of Individuals in his tried self-coup. That isn’t what democracy appears like.
Nothing speaks to Johnson’s sense of entitlement to dominant, ruling energy (which is the other of the democratic course of) than his perception that God selected him which is why he’s in energy (and thus, it’s inferred, shouldn’t be questioned, that is the divine proper argument that the U.S. rejected within the Revolutionary Struggle), however…. God did NOT choose President Joe Biden. So, solely Johnson’s energy is respectable, in his thoughts.
This argument sums up the Republican strategy to “governing”: It’s their approach or no approach. Solely they’re entitled to set coverage, even when the American folks made their will recognized that they most popular Democrats to set these insurance policies. Republicans know they’d doubtless not even be in control of the Home with out having corrupted the political processes by means of gerrymandering and voter suppression, but they act as in the event that they alone are entitled to set coverage calls for and impeach somebody from whom they’re withholding the funds to do his job as he must do it.
That is extra the outline of a poisonous work setting than the democratic course of.
Appeasing Donald-I-keep-classified-documents-in-the-bathroom-of-my-club-for-anyone-willing-to-pay-for-entry-Trump shouldn’t be what democracy appears like. Undermining western democracy by turning their backs on Ukraine shouldn’t be what democracy appears like. And intentionally tanking the most effective deal they’re ever prone to get on the border as a result of having a disaster on the border is healthier for his or her Boss politically shouldn’t be what democracy appears like.
Allow us to remind Republicans that Donald Trump shouldn’t be the president; he was not chosen; he was rejected by the voters. Taking orders from him is the other of honoring democracy.
If the border is a nationwide safety menace, as Trump and Republicans hold saying it’s, then why did they stroll away? They are going to be compelled to reply this query on the marketing campaign path and there isn’t a respectable reply.
It’s not the U.S. Home physique’s fault that Johnson is a failure as a frontrunner. Nancy Pelosi led this exact same physique, and he or she held a masterclass on the best way to lead. The one “physique” chargeable for this chaos is the Republican convention, who can’t stick to any Speaker for too lengthy irrespective of how a lot that Speaker appeases Donald Trump and the MAGA wing. So actually, Johnson is blaming his personal social gathering for this failure, however he lacks the braveness or even perhaps the information to say so.
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