After 3 Weeks of Paralyzed Authorities Mike Johnson Offers the Home a Lengthy Weekend

Now Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana, the hard-right architect of congressional efforts to overthrow the election whose contempt for precise voters is palpable, has started his speakership within the wake of three weeks of inaction by his chamber by giving the Home an extended weekend off, even because the world and the nation face crises and a authorities shutdown looms.

Maybe all of that not-working is exhausting.

Home GOP management giving the chamber an extended weekend.

They’ll be performed tomorrow and again on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/HB7jCJSIKK

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 25, 2023

Think about when you may fail to do probably the most primary a part of the job you’re paid to do, after which, after three weeks if you lastly managed to point out up with out being a reckless drunk endangering your entire nation together with your irresponsible folly, you lastly received a vote to steer your aspect of an organization staff. Your first order of enterprise? To offer your self an extended weekend.

Now think about you probably did that because the world burned round you, fairly actually.

It’s not an amazing look to be taking further time without work within the wake of the assault on Israel and the humanitarian disaster in Gaza in addition to Russia’s ongoing struggle of aggression in opposition to Ukraine as we lurch into yet one more authorities funding disaster introduced on by this similar crew.

It’s made much more sickening taken in context of Johnson’s assaults on everybody he believes aren’t working exhausting sufficient to deserve any authorities cash… as he takes authorities cash and flees to an extended weekend.

The Louisiana Republican made the case in opposition to reparations by claiming it “would hurt black People’ dignity by depriving them of the “which means” injected into their lives by having to realize equality with out authorities help.”

Would possibly we recommend that the Home of Representatives not get authorities handouts through a “paycheck” for not working, as it will deprive them of the which means of actual work, however quite they could present up 5 days every week like many People, or higher but to get the actual really feel for what number of stay, seven days every week. For which means.

Johnson is so involved with the “deficit” that his occasion ballooned after giveaways to probably the most rich that he drew up price range decision suggesting one of the best ways for these guys who’re paid from authorities cash and get a wholesome pension, healthcare and extra to “protect American freedom” is to simply take $2 trillion from Medicare (why ought to you have got healthcare simply because they do?), $3 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, CHIP, and “Obamacare”, and naturally for you lazy individuals who have paid into Social Safety your total lives, he proposed $750 billion in cuts to your security internet.

Additionally, chances are you’ll not take an extended weekend.

Who higher to information the ethical compass of the U.S. price range than the person who believes he was anointed by God to function Speaker, as “God is the one who raises up these in authority.” There was no rationalization for God’s delay in asserting His will, however the press will not be right here to get questions answered. We’re to “shut up!” as Home Republicans yelled when Johnson was questioned about his makes an attempt to steal the votes of nearly all of People.

Shut up, fourth property.

Home Republicans won’t be questioned about their seething contempt for the American voter. Home Republicans will dictate to, not be questioned, thanks very a lot. Any questions for the way this works needs to be directed at Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, who has been deftly manipulating the press for many years, albeit with extra finesse and fewer overt hostility. McConnell simply assumes the fitting to direct the narrative. Home Republicans are too boisterous a bunch of thugs, alleged criminals, con artists and democracy thieves to hold themselves with such tempered class because the Senate’s architect of democracy’s demise. It was that one should put a fairly face on theft of rights and trampling of norms, however now one simply tells the press to close up and claims the authority of none aside from God herself.

Johnson’s ethical character is so Trump-tinged that he cheerily promoted the conspiracy concept about Hugo Chávez and Dominion voting programs in mid November of 2020. Whenever you couple this along with his agency perception in himself as The Chosen, you possibly can see the republic is in for a carnival experience of true believers the likes of which it hasn’t seen for years.

Upon his eventual return to the toil of conspiracy theories and theft of safety and votes from The Folks, Mr. Johnson could be relied upon to return his gaze to the steely dealings of his obsession with sodomy and girls turning into broodmares to supply employees, when he isn’t utilizing your entire U.S. Home to assault President Biden for the good thing about the weakened, misplaced Mr. Trump who continues to threaten and troll like an indignant, powerless teenager, at the same time as his personal attorneys activate him to avoid wasting themselves.

On the twenty second day with no chief, the Republican-led Home of Representatives managed to lastly elect the worst particular person for the job, often known as the greatest consultant of the Republican Celebration agenda. It solely took 4 different nominees to get there after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was kicked to the curb after lower than a 12 months, for which he had endured the humiliation of 15 rounds of voting.

That is the longest time Congress has flailed about since 1962, once they took 55 days to elect a speaker. However it will probably’t be mentioned that Republicans didn’t work exhausting for this stage of dysfunction, which seems to be their largest coverage purpose: Paralyze the U.S. authorities, together with the Division of Protection, and thereby give our enemies all that they should overtake the U.S. globally.

Whereas Mr. Johnson claimed in 2004 that same-sex marriage would doom the republic and homosexual intercourse may even destroy “your entire democratic system, it appears he didn’t see himself and his boorish band of Trumpists coming. Nobody has been an even bigger menace to the republic and your entire democratic system than Mr. Johnson and his grasp, Donald Trump, each of whom tried to steal the fitting to have votes counted from a majority of the nation.

How is that this man speaker, you ask? Expensive Reader, that is the perfect they needed to provide.