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Some Americans rallied behind House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday after a report nitpicked his personal finances and put a harsh spotlight on the possibility that he lives paycheck to paycheck. The Daily Beast published a report headlined, "Does New Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Have a Bank Account?," which featured a subhead that said he "has never listed a bank account on his financial disclosure. In fact, on his newest disclosure he doesn’t list a single asset at all." "Over the course of seven years, Johnson has never reported a checking or savings account in his name, nor...

New Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R) has passed his first Second Amendment test. He immediately and forcefully stated that mass murder does not override the Constitution, and contrary to Democratic policy, emotion should not be used to enact laws that would never be acceptable in a quiet and reasoned debate. The statement was made in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox.For those who prefer text, here is the quote from Mediaite.com:“The end of the day, the problem is the human heart,” Johnson replied. “It’s not guns, it’s not the weapons. At the end of the day, we...

As predicted, the election of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) to the House Speaker position has sent Democrats and their media allies into fits of howling outrage, with the attacks on his Christian faith commencing apace and mudslingers digging deep in the Wayback machine to find a Confederate soldier family connection.But so far, the attacks from the Usual Suspects on both Johnson and his family don't seem to have done much if any damage to him among the Republican faithful. In fact, they might actually be helping instead, as the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has reported their highest one-day fundraising...

Anti-Christian Bigot Jen Psaki Warns Audience that Speaker Mike Johnson Is Dangerous Because He Believes in the Bible and Christian Principles

After 22 days of paralysis, the U.S. House of Representatives has finally elected a speaker to fill the vacuum left by ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). On Oct. 3, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), joined by seven other Republicans, voted with all House Democrats to remove Mr. McCarthy from the position he had tenuously held since January. But no clear replacement for Mr. McCarthy was immediately evident, leading Republicans to nominate four people for the job before finally finding one who could garner enough support. That candidate, newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), is relatively unknown in the politics of...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday evening that President Biden is showing obvious signs of cognitive decline — hours after meeting the commander-in-chief for the first time as leader of the lower chamber of Congress. “Do you see in Joe Biden a cognitive decline, and if so, is that a danger to the country?” Fox News host Sean Hannity asked the newly installed House speaker. “I do. I think most of us do,” Johnson said. “This is not a personal slight to him. It has to do with age and acumen, and everyone’s different. Everyone ages differently.”

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough has let his thoughts on the new Speaker of the House be known. “Donald Trump has his guy,” Scarborough, a frequent critic of Trump and former House member said in a clip posted Friday. “He has the anti-democracy guy sitting in the Speaker’s chair.” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was elected to the position Wednesday after weeks of turmoil in a Speaker-less House. Johnson was the architect of his conference’s legal strategy challenging current President Biden’s win in the 2020 election.

After Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) was elected Speaker of the House on Wednesday, Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries presented him with the gavel but not before taking a few shots at Johnson first. ... For years, Jeffries has accused Donald Trump of stealing the 2016 election and being an illegitimate president. “With [the] legitimacy of Trump’s presidential election in doubt, his lifetime appt to Supreme Court can wait,” Jeffries tweeted in March 2017 in reference to the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Nearly a year later, he claimed without evidence that “The more we learn about [the] 2016...

So Speaker Johnson is NOW 3rd inline to be POTUS, after listening to him on Hannity last night I think he was put there for a reason.He came out of nowhere.

WELCOME BACK. 0:04 I THINK WE ARE GOING TO JUMP 0:06 BACK NOW TO THE HOUSE WHERE OUR 0:08 NEW HOUSE SPEAKER IS SPEAKING. 0:23 >> I WANT TO EXPRESS MY GREAT 0:26 THINGS FOR OUR SPEAKER, KEVIN 0:28 CLARK -- KEVIN McCARTHY. [ 0:37 APPLAUSE ] KEVIN HAS DEDICATED 0:42 OVER TWO DECADES OF HIS LIFE TO 0:44 SELFLESS PUBLIC SERVICE, 16 OF 0:46 THOSE YEARS IN THIS HOUSE AND 0:49 YOU WOULD BE HARD-PRESSED TO 0:50 FIND ANYBODY WHO LOVES THIS 0:54 INSTITUTION MORE OR HAS 0:55 CONTRIBUTED MORE TO IT. 0:57 HE IS THE REASON WE ARE...

Newly-elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is already about to trigger much wailing and gnashing of teeth from progressives in Congress. The lawmaker is wasting no time in setting the legislative agenda for the lower chamber, but his first move is likely to send the anti-Israel faction of Congress into a tizzy.On Wednesday, after taking the gavel, Johnson vowed to bring forth a bill supporting Israel while also condemning Hamas for starting the current war in the Middle East. After assuring the American public that House Republicans are “ready to get to work again” to solve the problems facing the...

This is deep weeds inside baseball, but boy howdy does it tell a story. Representative Matt Gaetz (MAGA, FL) goes through the details of yesterday’s House republican conference assembly as they select a Speaker nominee. What Gaetz reveals in detail is how Kevin McCarthy has been working the conference to undermine any other Speaker candidate so that McCarthy would be renominated as the only possible alternative. The insight and details are really interesting. This is a must watch.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Smoke rose from the Capitol building early this afternoon, indicating that Congress had resumed shoveling taxpayer dollars into a giant bonfire. "They're back at it," said local resident Milton Dennings, watching the cloud of smoke rise. "Well. All good things must come to an end." After three weeks of Congress being hamstrung by having no Speaker of the House, the glowing embers of the last trillion dollars set on fire had at last begun to fade. "So, if we can't light money on fire, what exactly are we doing here?" asked Representative Tom Emmer, twiddling his thumbs....

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) the Republican Conference Chair, delivered a blistering nomination speech endorsing Mike Johnson for US House Speaker before the vote this morning. Elise Stefanik: We convene this esteemed body today at a time of great crisis across America, a time of unprecedented challenges in this hallowed chamber, and a time when our most precious ally, Israel’s very existence, is under attack from forces of evil. Yesterday, our dear colleague, our former conference chair, our Chair of Energy and Commerce, kathy McMorris Rogers, nominated Mike Johnson in our conference, and she put it best, and I want to...

The House is scheduled to convene at noon Eastern time.

Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana emerged as the leading candidate with 85 votes after a closed-door evening vote, lawmakers said, though it was not clear whether he would be able to overcome divisions that tripped up Emmer and two other candidates who had previously won the party's nomination.

The sad truth is that some people in our party are stupid. Statistically, that is inevitable since the parties are about evenly split. When you have 50% of the population, you’re going to have a certain percentage of the idiots. Well, the Republican Party is undoubtedly statistically within the band of normal, because we sure have our share of nitwits. And I’m tired of them. SNIP>>>>> The reality is that we somehow managed to get a Speaker last January and that Speaker was imperfect. Kevin McCarthy was not the guy I wanted for the job in the abstract. He was...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans chose Rep. Mike Johnson as their latest nominee for House speaker late Tuesday, hours after an earlier pick, Rep. Tom Emmer, abruptly withdrew in the face of opposition from Donald Trump and hardline GOP lawmakers. Johnson of Louisiana, a lower-ranked member of the House GOP leadership team, becomes the fourth Republican nominee after Emmer and the others fell short in what has become an almost absurd cycle of political infighting since Kevin McCarthy's ouster as GOP factions jockey for power. Refusing to unify, far-right members won’t accept a more traditional speaker and moderate conservatives don’t want...

Their third speaker pick in three weeks lasted barely four hours. Now, with their desperation on full display, Republicans are trying again. The House GOP is convening Tuesday night for its fourth internal huddle of the day as it hears from yet another unwieldy field of candidates to lead its broken ranks. No one has demonstrated the ability to do what the three previous failed speaker hopefuls couldn’t: unite enough Republicans to land 217 votes on the floor. Two members of tonight’s five-man field have already run and lost. That includes Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), the second highest vote-getter earlier...

The House GOP on Tuesday voted for Tom Emmer to be their next speaker nominee after the conference failed to rally behind previous candidates Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan. Emmer (R-MN), after having been nominated by House Republicans as the nominee for Speaker, has dropped out of the race. The development comes only hours after he was first nominated on Tuesday. Now, House Republicans are going back to the drawing board to come up with a new candidate. In the quest for the almighty 217 votes needed to secure the speaker's gavel, the conference has been trying to lock down...