Louisiana Voice

Speaker of the House or jester to the king?

Mike Johnson, the self-proclaimed “Moses of the House,” is not above lying.

In fact, he’s damned good at it. Maybe that’s why Pedo-POTUS ridicules him behind his back.

Trying his best – and failing miserably – to be empathetic, he said this week there “cannot be a regular legislative session so long as the government is closed and Americans are feeling so much pain.”

First of all, he doesn’t feel any pain so long as he continues to collect his $612.33 per day even as federal workers go without pay during the current shutdown.

Second of all, the shutdown is the choice of Republicans in Congress, not the Democrats as they would have you believe.

Johnson says if the Democrats would only vote to approve spending bills, everyone could get back to work. The Democrats, however, to their credit, refuse to return unless action can be taken to keep Affordable Care Act (ACA) premiums from skyrocketing, making coverage unaffordable for millions of Americans. So, Johnson is lying when he attempts to lay the blame for the shutdown at the feet of Democrats.

Besides, while Johnson blames the Democrats for the shutdown, which began Oct. 1, it was Johnson who sent House members home back on Sept. 19 – in order to avoid a vote on releasing the Epstein files. Those Epstein files, by the way, could arguably be linked to the Seventh of the Ten Commandments Johnson claims to adhere to.

Johnson also is lying – and he knows full-well he’s lying when he claims that millions of undocumented immigrants are receiving Medicare/Medicaid or ACA benefits. It’s not true because it is illegal for them to enroll in either of the programs. Johnson knows that, yet he continues to make the claim otherwise. So much for the Ninth Commandment.

Likewise, Johnson is lying when he insists that he is prohibited from swearing in newly-elected Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Arizona) while Congress is not in session. He points to Louisiana’s Julia Letlow as an example of one who was not sworn in until about a month after her election when in fact, it was Letlow herself who chose the date that she would be available for the ceremony.

Oops.

Moreover, two other Republicans were elected during a recess but they were immediately sworn in – by Johnson. Still, he chooses to lie through his teeth while claiming to be a devout Christian. Grijalva, by the way, is the final vote needed to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. Mikey wouldn’t be letting that little fact dictate his reluctance to administer the oath of office, would he” Nah, couldn’t be something that crass.

Johnson has also defended (a) Herr Frump’s demanding payment of $230 million in damages from the Justice Department over past federal investigations (in other words, Johnson, an attorney, sees nothing wrong with der Führer’s suing himself), (b) the demolition of the East Wing so that el Presidente may erect a 90,000-square-foot, $300 million ballroom while children on SNAP are about to go hungry and federal workers go without paychecks and (c) endorsed TACO Don’s pardon of former Rep. and convicted con man George Santos because MAGA-man believes in “redemption” even as he pursues prosecutions of three of his critics. All that fealty pretty much knocks Commandment Nos. One, Two and Eight in the head

It’s certainly no wonder that Ol’ Yam Tits was recently heard privately claiming that it is actually he, not Johnson, who is “speaker and president.”

Want to hear a good one? Johnson was quoted by MSNBC as saying Republican House members are currently doing “some of the most meaningful work of their careers,” adding that he is reluctant to “pull them away” from their time in their home districts.

On second thought, he’s probably right that by staying out of the Beltway, they may well be doing “some of the most meaningful work of their careers,” because they sure as hell haven’t shown much evidence of work in Washington.