Watch: Sen. John Kennedy on Fire, Torches Climate Professor - 'You Gonna Call Me a Sick F***?'

 By Allison Anton
  May 1, 2024 at 2:14pm

While too many senators on the right haven’t been willing to call out radical wokeness, the obnoxiousness with which these activists have their defended their alarmist claims might have just pushed some senators over the edge.

Or, at least one, Republican Senator for Louisiana John Kennedy.

During a hearing on Wednesday regarding certain environmental topics, titled “Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change,” Sen. Kennedy went toe-to-toe with professor Geoffrey Supran on the groups he publicly supports on social media.

And, as seen in a clip of the hearing shared to the social media platform X, the questioning got quite heated.

https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-sen-john-kennedy-fire-torches-climate-professor-gonna-call-sick-f/

Davidson also claimed that the $130,000 that Daniels received to buy her silence about the alleged one-night-stand "wasn’t a payoff, and it wasn’t hush money."

He prefers to describe the arrangement as a "consideration," he testified.

Quote of the trial thus far.....   

Horseshit. Back in the first week of December last year Johnson said the border was "the hill to die on". He flat out lied and HE is the one that betrayed this country.

Okay, so let's talk about what Johnson did on the border.

Johnson clearly was engaged in hard bargaining/brinksmanship with Senate Democrats, trying to get them to act on the border legislation, HB 2, that the House had passed last July.   The leverage Johnson was trying to use was refusing to pass any other aid unless Senate Democrats also agreed to that border security bill.

The problem turned out to be that the Democrats were willing to let aid to both Ukraine and Israel die rather than past that border bill.   And that shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody, because the vast majority of the Democratic party would go apeshit if the Senate passed that border bill, and Biden signed it.

In other words, the border bill was not going to pass no matter what Republicans did, and there was nothing Republicans could do to change that.  It's unfortunately what happens when you have such a small majority in the House, and the other party controls both the Senate and the Presidency. You simply can't push through major controversial legislation against a hostile Senate and President.  That has never happened.

So that was the reality with which Johnson was faced this spring - that the Republican priority of a border bill was not going to happen.  That became even more certain when President Trump himself came out and said that the Republicans should not agree to any border bill unless it provided 100% security. Obviously, Trump said that because he didn't want to lose the issue for the November election. In any case, Trump's own statement killed whatever chance there was for even a compromise border bill.

So at that point, Johnson's threat not to pass any other aid without a border bill had failed. If you want to call that some unbreakable "promise", fine, but I think it was pretty clearly a negotiating tactic by Johnson.  He tried a poker bluff, it failed, and the Democrats simply had the much better hand. It happens.

So once Johnson accepted the reality that the border bill was not going to pass, the merits of the other legislation had to be considered on their own. And that's exactly what he did.

So there were only two choices:

1) have no border bill, and pass aid to Ukraine and Israel, or

2) have no border bill, and no aid to Ukraine or Israel either.

At that point, the border is irrelevant.  So you either support aid to Ukraine and/or Israel, or you don't. And it's pretty clear that MTG was perfectly happy with Ukraine getting absolutely no military aid whatsoever, regardless of whether  a border bill was being passed or not. 

She should be honest enough to admit that she doesn't want Ukraine getting any military aid regardless, and quit hiding behind the border as an excuse.

Is he considered a repeat offender or were all the charges dismissed because of the effect of global warming on him?