As I see it, the real news here is that Mike Johnson is exactly the kind of politician that got us where we are today.
No guts, no balls, no white hat.
“No guts, no balls, no white hat.”
Mike Johnson has no choice but to make a deal with Democrats. If congress causes a government shutdown, the GOP is to blame. If the deal is passed, the GOP is to blame because this is not a budget. It’s putting out a fire and at least half of the problems are still floating in space.
But he did ask for border funding to stay and said he would talk with the libs about Ukrainian funding after the bill went into effect and the government remained in operation and in a separate spending package to prevent a government shutdown on Friday. Those were the two issues hit in the conservtive congress and he is still sitting on them and won’t budge at this point.
Johnson is trapped by previous legislation that was passed prior to his taking the hot seat. Congress can keep throwing people into the spot until they run out of republicans, but they can’t change history unless they are liberal. He could easily have said when he entered the seat, “Thanks for the sour persimmons, cousin.”
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