New House Speaker Mike Johnson may already be losing his first big clash with the hard-right lawmakers who are making the Republican majority and the nation ungovernable as time races down to yet another federal funding cut-off.
His first few attempts were aligned with the hardliners, those failed because of his maga flank.
Now he’s proposed something the maga flank will tolerate, and he’s getting shut down by the hardliner ultra-maga flank.
Exact same political shit as McCarthy, but this dude is a complete amateur without a decade of favors to call in and no fundraising connections.
He’s also an embarrassing weirdo (“son, for accountability reasons I need you to see this Mia Khalifa video”) with an obvious financial scandal in his near future (no assets or bank account at all, really?)
I think he’s going to regret God ordaining him to this position.
Government shutdown looms as new hardline speaker aligns with hardliners
His first few attempts were aligned with the hardliners, those failed because of his maga flank.
Now he’s proposed something the maga flank will tolerate, and he’s getting shut down by the hardliner ultra-maga flank.
Exact same political shit as McCarthy, but this dude is a complete amateur without a decade of favors to call in and no fundraising connections.
He’s also an embarrassing weirdo (“son, for accountability reasons I need you to see this Mia Khalifa video”) with an obvious financial scandal in his near future (no assets or bank account at all, really?)
I think he’s going to regret God ordaining him to this position.