“Johnson reached across the aisle, stiffed the Republican majority that elected him speaker, and pushed through a massive gift to the warfare corporate welfare state.”
An accurate summation.
McCarthy was okay, but just in a modestly acceptable way.
Johnson is either highly compromised (when he and his son monitored each others porn use exactly what were they watching?) or just as dumb as a pile of rocks.
“We’ll get ‘em next time!”
In 2004, this exact same bill would have been passed in the GOP-controlled Congress and signed into law by GWB without even making headlines. And the only opposition would have come from a fringe group of DEMOCRATS who opposed welfare for white people on principle.