The U.S. Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, was the keynote speaker and spoke to WANE 15 about various issues surrounding the republican party.
Author Herman Wouk captured well how to understand heroism. “Heroes are not supermen; they are good men who embody — by the cast of destiny — the virtue of their whole people in a great hour,” observed Wouk. We have today an American hero in the name of House Speaker Mike Johnson. Anyone with eyes open knows the world today is a very dangerous place. Johnson, a conservative Republican and a devout Christian, knows that the way for it to become even more dangerous is for the leader of the...
Author Herman Wouk captured well how to understand heroism. “Heroes are not supermen; they are good men who embody — by the cast of destiny — the virtue of their whole people in a great hour,” observed Wouk. We have today an American hero in the name of House Speaker Mike Johnson. Anyone with eyes open knows the world today is a very dangerous place. Johnson, a conservative Republican and a devout Christian, knows that the way for it to become even more dangerous is for the leader of the...
Speaker Johnson's Ignominious Betrayal Authored by David Stockman via David Stockman's Contra Corner, Speaker Johnson’s ignominious betrayal of fiscal sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is apparently risking his speakership on behalf of $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that Uncle Sam cannot remotely afford, and which actually provide zero benefit to the homeland security of America. And we do mean zero, as in nothing, nichts, nada, nyet and nugatory, as we...
In 2018, the Daily Beast published an article titled “Meet the Double Agent Who Now Controls House Conservatives,” in reference to now-Speaker Mike Johnson. The article alleges that Johnson was a “mole” for the House Freedom Caucus to infiltrate the larger Republican congressional groups, and with the way things have been going, Glenn Beck is wondering if there’s a chance the article may have been right. Christopher Bedford, Blaze Media's new Washington correspondent and senior politics...
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said Tuesday there is “no difference” to her whether Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) keeps his job or Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) becomes Speaker. “We are passing the democratic agenda each and every day that we're here. We have a slim majority in the House. And it's — everything's being passed overwhelmingly with
America continues to fund both sides of conflicts and wars. This is typified by the latest Israel aid portion of the package voted on by the House of Representatives.
Twice in the last few weeks, Donald Trump has reached out to demonstrate his support for embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). At a Mar-a-Lago meeting with the speaker on April 11, he acknowledged how tough Johnson's job is with such a slim majority.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is the latest Republican leader trying to save his job against a conservative coup. But he’s got one thing going for him that his recent predecessors didn’t. The public, especially Republicans, generally likes him. Backed by former President Donald Trump, the Louisiana Republican has a 44% favorable rating. In the […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is happy to keep them guessing. The Georgia hard-liner introduced her motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in March, framing it as a warning to GOP leaders ahead of explosive debates on government spying and aid to Ukraine. Yet more than a month later, Greene has declined to force
Many Republicans have warned against an ouster vote, fearing it could throw the House GOP conference into chaos yet again and pointing to the contentious weekslong fight for a new speaker after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted in an unprecedented vote last year as a cautionary tale.