Speaker Johnson Can Get Lost

 

I have some questions about just what Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, thinks his job in the US House actually is, because he said this:

“President Biden falsely claimed yesterday he needs Congress to pass a new law to allow him to close the southern border, but he knows that is untrue,” Johnson said. “As I explained to him in a letter late last year, and have specifically reiterated to him on multiple occasions since, he can and must take executive action immediately to reverse the catastrophe he has created.”

Ok, he's wrong on what needs to be done, because closing one border doesn't actually fix immigration but even if Johnson doesn't understand the problem is bigger than just "people try to come though the Mexican border and Biden isn't fixing it" the solution is that we have an equal but separate branch of government that could compel him to do so.  It's in the Constitution--he can check it out. 

The Senate worked on a bill because they understand their job--get things done. If the border and Ukraine funding and funding for Israel are all bundled: figure out a way. But in addition to denying ANYTHING needs to be done about the border during what Republicans have been alleging is a crisis, Speaker Johnson is going to deny the House voting on the Senate bill and wants to put up a standalone bill for aid to Israel. And claims he was cut out of being briefed on the Senate bill. 

Oklahoma Republican Sen. Lankford says that just isn't true--and I believe him. Maybe Mike Johnson claims that God called him to be another Moses, but in real life he knows he's Speaker of the House because Trump suffers it. And Trump already told us what he thinks about a border deal or Republicans who would support one. 

There's a few things in play here: Johnson is holding up passing aid to Ukraine. So preventable deaths in Russia's genocide of Ukrainian people is on him. He's trying to pass the standalone Israel bill to virtue-signal to his evangelical tribe about his own priorities. And he's telling us the border deal is so urgent that it can wait for a rapist conman with 91 criminal charges against him to get back into the White House to fix it. 

He's allowing the Mayorkas impeachment fiasco to go along with this because of being cowed by MTG as well as showing anti-legal immigrant bias. The impeachment decision suggests Mayorkas should be DEPORTED. That's not an accident, except as an "accident on purpose."

House Republicans’ final impeachment report literally says their impeachment is about “deporting” Secretary Mayorkas

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— Ian Sams (@IanSams46) February 5, 2024

This man is in so way over his head and incapable of fucking doing a job it would stagger me, except I've been watching this swirling diminishment of the GOP in capability and talent for some time. The chittering howler monkeys of the backbenches were always going to run the show: the cretins, the militia-fetishists, the bottomless Bible-banging excusers of rape and the pushers of forced labor in childbirth for women and child labor for the kids they bring into this world. They would no longer be savvy demagogues merely catering to the booboisie, but actual entire boobs themselves. 

There may be other people who see Johnson, a vocal Christian, as some kind of Moses. I suggest if Johnson wants to take a walk for the next forty years he can go lead his people into a wilderness.  Get the whole hell lost. And we can figure things out without him.