Posted on 04/17/2024 9:40:35 AM PDT by Kazan
The battle this ‘wartime speaker’ is ready to fight isn’t at home for his voters but nearly 5,000 miles and an ocean away.
efore Republican Rep. Mike Johnson became speaker of the House, he wasn’t an open proponent of bankrolling the Russia-Ukraine war. Even the Lousiana native’s first few months with the gavel were marked by his repeated pledge that the lower chamber would not pass legislation promising money to secure other nation’s borders while ours was still under attack.
Now that his leadership is threatened thanks to his continual collusion with Democrats and establishment Republicans, however, the self-proclaimed “wartime speaker” is abandoning his record of Ukraine skepticism in favor of joining the push for an endless stream of money to a corrupt overseas regime.
In May 2023, Johnson, then an individual member, declined to support another blank check to Kyiv because the U.S. “should not be sending another $40 billion abroad when our own border is in chaos, American mothers are struggling to find baby formula, gas prices are at record highs, and American families are struggling to make ends meet, without sufficient oversight over where the money will go.” Less than one month before becoming speaker, Johnson also voted no on a bill that promised $300 million more to Ukraine.
Even Johnson’s post-speaker election remarks, which featured shoutouts to Israel and other foreign policy issues, made no mention of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Shortly after he met with President Joe Biden at the White House to discuss passing Israel and Ukraine spending packages, Johnson changed his tune.
Just one week after he began presiding over the House of Representatives, Johnson announced a GOP agenda that hinted at fulfilling “obligations … around the world” but promised to “take care of our own House first.”
“We will take care of a border in Ukraine. We need to take care of America’s border as well,” Johnson declared.
During a quick colleague fundraising trip to Florida in November, Johnson again confirmed the forever war overseas “is another priority” but claimed further funding hinged on “changing our own border policy.”
For months, Johnson teased and taunted voters sick of seeing their taxpayer dollars thrown at a proxy war in Eastern Europe with promises to address domestic problems such as the ongoing border invasion, and punish the people responsible for incentivizing it.
In December, Johnson said the American border should be Republicans’ “hill to die on.”
“The battle is for the border,” Johnson stated. “We do that first as a top priority, and we’ll take care of these other obligations.”
Johnson even made a big show of visiting the U.S.-Mexico border and demanding the border be “closed and secured” before the House would consider more foreign spending.
“If President Biden wants a supplemental spending bill focused on national security, it better begin by defending America’s national security. It begins right here on our southern border,” Johnson said in Eagle Pass.
He said he repeated the sentiment during a meeting with Biden the next week.
“I told the president what I have been saying for many months, and that is that we must have change at the border — substantive policy change,” Johnson said.
Johnson continued what appeared to be a commitment to true border security at the beginning of 2024 when he deemed the Senate’s bad border bill “dead on arrival.” He also proceeded with impeachment articles for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and criticized the Senate for passing a bill that included provisions for Ukraine but not the U.S. border.
Yet when the time came in March to put the money where his mouth was, Johnson and more than 130 House Republicans did not hesitate to pass a Democrat-led $460 billion spending bill that did nothing about the mass influx of border crossers illegally entering the country.
Around that same time, Johnson’s Ukraine talk also started to shift. He began trying to finagle new ways, such as loans and redistributing frozen Russian assets, to get Volodymyr Zelensky quick cash.
“Even President Trump has talked about the loan concept where we set up — we’re not just giving foreign aid,” Johnson told Fox News. “We’re setting it up in a relationship where they can provide it back to us when the time is right.”
Lured by the promise that Democrats will help him keep his currently threatened position if he takes up their causes, Johnson is dead set on bankrolling Ukraine against his conference and American voters’ wishes.
Johnson has spent the last couple of weeks in particular entertaining spending bills, which will likely be lumped together in reconciliation, that send money to Kyiv, Israel, and Taiwan. His decision to yield to and even join the uniparty’s Ukraine campaign proves he is actively sabotaging the little leverage House Republicans have.
He’s also sabotaging his position as speaker. Republican Rep. Thomas Massie announced Tuesday night that he would cosponsor Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s motion to vacate.
Johnson, however, is unfazed. Ukraine’s borders, not our own, are his new “hill to die on.”
“I’m not resigning and it is, in my view, an absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion when we are simply here trying to do our jobs,” Johnson said in a press conference on Tuesday.
Johnson’s so-called vision to “save the country,” however, doesn’t begin with addressing Americans’ mounting concerns about inflation, the border, lawfare, or any other issue plaguing our “beleaguered republic.” According to the speaker, saving America begins with caving to corporate media demands and sending Ukraine billions more dollars.
The battle this “wartime speaker” is ready to fight isn’t at home for his voters but nearly 5,000 miles and an ocean away.
Johnson despicable scum and most be removed, not just as Speaker, but from Congress.
Anyone tolerating this is assuring our representative republic dies and is replaced by a Deep State, globalist oligarchy.
Politician lies: News at 11:00
The betrayal is in the Senate...where HR2 has sat since May of 2023. Schumer won't bring it to the floor for a vote. It includes finishing the wall.
Traitor Mike Johnson is compromised and dedicated to Joe Biden and destroying traditional America.
Blackmail Op ….. again!
Guess you never heard of HR2.
Johnson is yet another career lawyer turned lifer government politician.
The Republican party is full of lawyers, not leaders.
Kazan Boy.
S it UP.
Ukraine’s military aid will soon be on its way.
Ask your FSB boss how to proceed from here...
Times change...so do priorities. “Fixing” the border doesn’t require more money. Ukraine does, and soon. The conflation of the two has always been a red herring, dragged around by the ignorati who bought into Russian propaganda, for reasons of their own, perhaps.
The avg IQ in Congress is in the double digits. Half of them are mildly retarded. The other half are full retard. What do we expect from this dummy goober?
“The Republican party is full of lawyers, not leaders.”
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Republican leadership is an oxymoron.
The Republican party doesn’t really want to lead.
In December, Speaker Johnson wrote a letter to the White House reiterating that NO FUNDING FOR UKRAINE would be considered WITHOUT BORDER SECURITY.
Read the letter for yourself. Where is that Speaker?
https://x.com/RepScottPerry/status/1780348127066640833
Let’s be clear: empty detention beds and more border patrol agents ushering in illegal foreign nationals isn’t “border security.” It’s more of your money spent on processing more illegals into YOUR communities more efficiently.
But the Left will tell you it’s “border security.”
https://x.com/RepScottPerry/status/1771526030248849617
Johnson says he changed his mind on FISA when he attended a SCIF meeting. He neglected to mention that the meeting was not about FISA, but various pictures, videos, receipts, accusations about himself.
This bothers me the most and without a satisfactory explanation is grounds for removal imho.
I don’t necessarily mean this as a defense of Johnson, or an attack either.
When Johnson promised to take care of the border before Ukraine, or having separate appropriations bills, or cut spending to lessen inflation, his supporters took those as promises. His (and our) opponents, however, take those as challenges.
It became their #1 priority to ensure that whatever Johnson promised would never happen, if for no other reason than to show us who’s boss, and it ain’t us. This is politically unnecessary, since whatever the House passes in this session is not going to get through the Senate, or signed by the White House, so if they wanted they could simply let the House pass all these promises, then go to the MSM and get them to announce how those rascally right-wingers want to destroy democracy, etc. etc. But that isn’t good enough for them; they HAVE to show Johnson that he can NEVER do what they don’t want him to do. And they will do the same if the Speaker is Jim Jordan, or Chip Roy, or MTG, or Donalds in his blackness. They HAVE to feel like they can get away with whatever anti-MAGA power grab they can.
(P.S. The same is true of abortion, but that’s a separate issue.)
Big money globalists own the Republican establishment politicians.
Blackmailed or undercover communist?
Both.
Completely agree.
Keep voting for lawyers instead of leaders. It’s worked out so well the last 50 plus years.
We can’t boot him now as it will impact the election. After the election we can skewer him.
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