April 21, 2024
Quit haranguing Speaker Johnson
By Victoria White Berger
House Speaker Mike Johnson has been enduring a public scourging from his fellow Republicans these past weeks.
Let’s take a closer look at his offenses.
Johnson has been ridiculed for comparing his stint thus far as Speaker to the era of the Civil War:
Speaker Johnson: I'm Doing The Hardest Job Arguably Since The Civil War | Video | RealClearPolitics
Despite the faux ridicule, Johnson — a literate man who knows his history -- is actually pretty correct, on several levels, in his assessment of the current times.
The main point about the Congress now is that it is not, in practice and almost in fact, a bi-partisan situation. The Democrats hold the Senate and almost have the House. Accordingly, Speaker Johnson has not, much to his credit, respected calls for his own ouster.
He's also been criticized for using Democrats to pass a $60 billion package of wartime aid for Ukraine.
Yes, there are those who support no more dollars for Ukraine, however they are spent. Others would demur that Johnson’s so-called capitulation on the recent House funding package is not too bad, as being just another predictable reload for a fantastically manipulated foreign defense budget. Is this really news?
Yet, realistically, Johnson’s correct priority for foreign aid at this moment is Israel, and he got that in only by allowing the Ukraine lobby.
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