Posted on 10/25/2023 5:07:22 PM PDT by cotton1706
You could be forgiven for not knowing much about Mike Johnson, the newly elected speaker of the House. Most senators, including many Republicans, don’t know much about him, either. For example, Senator Susan Collins, the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, told a reporter that she had to google him. Senator John Barrasso, the third-highest-ranking GOP senator, said that he primarily knew about Johnson from what he had “read in the paper.”
“I don’t know him,” Senate Minority Whip John Thune said on Wednesday morning. “May have met him, but that’s about it.” After Johnson’s election, Thune struck a more engaged note, saying: “We’re ready to work with him, and he’s ready to work with us.”
Senior Republican aides in the Senate were also bemused by his ascension, noting to this reporter that he seemed nice enough but was a relative unknown to the upper chamber. “Apparently experience isn’t necessary for the speaker job,” said Senator Mitt Romney, noting Johnson’s relative lack of time in Congress. “We’re down to folks who haven’t had leadership or chairmanship roles, which means their administration of the House will be a new experience for them.”
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And now he is in a position more powerful than theirs.
And just listen to the arrogance of FRESHMAN, single-term senator Mitt Romney.
We are in for some good times!
“Apparently experience isn’t necessary for the speaker job,” said Senator Mitt Romney,“
What a snarky little bitch. Ugh the guy is just repulsive.
The fact that these ancient Swamp Rats don’t know him is a point in Johnson’s favor.
Senators are self serving and disconnected from reality. Most don’t even know where the gas filler is on their car.
Is that the 2nd Pubbie in the Senate not knowing the 4th Pubbie in the House?
Apology in advance for a crude joke.
Everybody was laughing at the Republicans as the days went by for three weeks fooling around with no House Speaker. Today they were found with their hands on their Johnson.
Inspired by I think twice hearing the award winning actor Dennis Franz (as Detective Andy Sipowicz) on episodes of NYPD Blue make quips about street thugs waiting around holding their Johnsons.
etymology:
Dr. Samuel Johnson, Origin of a Penis Euphemism
December 11, 2010 by Biblioklept
In his forthcoming cultural history of euphemisms, Euphemania, Ralph Keyes offers the following (seemingly apocryphal) origin of the euphemism “Johnson” (for “penis,” of course) —
Johnson is the last name most often used for the male sex organ.
According to one theory, this slangy euphemism originated with the name of a large railroad brake lever.
Lexicographer Eric Partridge thought it was more likely an abbreviated version of Dr. Johnson, a onetime synonym for “penis” that Partridge said might be based on the assumption that ‘there was no one Dr. [Samuel] Johnson was not prepared to stand up to.’ Working under the verbal restraints of his times, Partridge said this synonym was for the ‘membrum virile.’
Speaks poorly of senators that they didn’t bother to get to know more republican house members. Only knew their usual “club” group?
He is going to be offered a lot of money to go along. The “experienced” senators are all corrupted.
This article ignores that McCarthy was working behind the scenes to kill all the prior candidates. What a sleaze. Just like Hastert, Boehner, and Ryan.
“Senator Susan Collins told a reporter that she had to google him”
Of course that rino collaborator would use Google
I thought the joke was/is funny.
Your first 2 sentences were all I needed.
Romney has been a privileged snob his whole life.
“Detective Andy Sipowicz) on episodes of NYPD Blue make quips about street thugs waiting around holding their Johnsons.”
LOL! We just finished binge watching NYPD Blue. Andy said that a lot. They had some hilarious euphemisms for so many things — perversions, mostly.
Hey, if nothing else he gets a primo parking spot, access to a government airplane and a huge bump to his congressional pension even if he serves a few days.
The downside is the Speaker’s office reeks of vodka and pancake make up.
Encouraging.
If he’s anything like the raves Matt Gaetz gave him today on Steve Bannon’s show, calling him a great constitutional lawyer who is not at all happy with the weaponization of the justice system and willing to do something about it, he is indeed a gift from God! (...Who works in mysterious ways.) All that brouhaha over the big mahaffs, and poof! —in slips a good guy for the job!
“Romney has been a privileged snob his whole life.”
He’s a prick just like his father.
Senators live in their own bubble inside the DC bubble
They only know what their staff tells them to know and nothing else
Well said, ditto for “W”
I’m still in a state of shock that this happened.
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