This should not come as a surprise.
Facing an ever-diminishing number of Republican representatives willing to support Joe Biden’s demand for massive and unending spending for Ukraine, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson now tells DC media he will pass the spending with Democrat votes.
Retention and continuation of spending for Ukraine is the ultimate example of a UniParty Congress. The powers that control the mechanics of spending taxpayer money simply don’t care how much opposition exists amid the taxpayers. They will fund Ukraine, and public opinion means naught.
Emphasis mine, because there’s an ancillary story.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, West Virginia — Speaker Mike Johnson told POLITICO that he expects to pass a future Ukraine assistance bill with Democratic votes, an acknowledgment of the persistent resistance to any new aid within the GOP.
Johnson said in a Thursday interview at the House Republican retreat that aid to both Ukraine and Israel could come up as one or even two separate bills. He said he anticipates it would happen using the House’s suspension calendar, which he’s used often in recent days to overcome pushback from his own party. (read more)
This type of outlook and UniParty ideology is what leads to this next dose of sunlight. President Trump refused to attend the Sulphur Springs retreat and talk to the Republicans gathered there.
(Daily Mail) – Former President Donald Trump rebuffed an offer to speak at the House GOP retreat in West Virginia, instead choosing to appear at a Florida court case related to his handling of classified documents.
The former president joined more than 100 House Republicans who chose to skip out their annual retreat, where GOP leadership hopes to get its free-wheeling conference behind a united message after months of inner turmoil.
Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Thursday he will impress upon members the importance of ‘stand[ing] together’ as they discuss their strategy on the economy, border and foreign policy.
The only way to turn it around is to stop the fighting, so says the speaker.
‘Everyone says the next election cycle is the most important one of our lifetimes. We’re all accustomed to saying that, we say it every election cycle. Everybody knows this one truly is,’ Johnson said.
‘We have entire industries, sectors in the economy facing existential threats … the world is a tinderbox right now, because our stature on the world stage has been diminished,’ he went on. ‘There are so many problems.’
‘We have to stand together stick together. Get the job done,’ said Johnson. I’m absolutely convinced if we do that. They’re going to expand our house majority give us the Senate and the Republicans will take the White House as well and then we will all be in a much better mood next January because the agenda will change 180 degrees.’
But a stay at the plush Greenbrier Resort in the Allegheny Mountains was not enough to entice more than half of House Republicans. (read more)
The MAGA influence is fracturing the Republican apparatus. The traditional GOPe of Wall Street and Multinational donors is now about half of the Republican conference. The other half is MAGA-minded.
It’s progress, but painfully slow. The Ukraine funding issue has helped to identify the two groups more clearly; however, it is going to take a lot more effort to remove the remaining GOPe globalists. Keep fighting.
While the rule is still in place…submit the motion to vacate!
A couple of small wins were given to perpetuate the illusion.
Johnson look swarmy and weak. Never thought he would be a hammer for us.
He’s a C sucker
Oh, goodie. Now we get to watch the spectacle of another 100K Ukrainian soldiers dying in another completely hopeless “counteroffensive” Which will then bring up another desperate need for yet another $100 billion “Ukrainian aid package” some 10 months down the road. But hey, we’ll probably get 10K more Russians killed, which will allow Lindsey to pretend that he’s a tough guy
What the Globalists really want is to use Ukraine to drag in American troops and destroy the US.
The Globalists need the US to be destroyed, or so badly damaged as to be impotent.
It’s regress. They have vowed to fund Ukraine through at least 2025. Impeach the tweaker speaker now. He’s a Democrat.
Time for Mike to pack it in. Someone has clearly gotten to him and he is clearly no longer on the Trump Train! Byron Donalds for Speaker!
Flush the RNC, Change the RNC state leadership. Target Wall Street & Multinational GOP supporters, limit their influence.
File a motion to vacate the Chair. Now!
WTF
Remember that he got confirmed with democrats votes. I rest my case.
Seeing his head bobbing during the State of the DisUnion address was all I needed to see. Not that I had any doubts that he was just another Republican politician, I just thought that maybe, just maybe he might see which way the populist wind is blowing and get on board.
Now,…..it looks like Johnson will be continuing to blow job his way through life. Johnson will be sucking corporate Johnsons and Deep throating the Deep State until his constituents vote him out.
MAGA Revolution coming in 2024!
FuBAR!!! CRAP WEASELS!!
The New Abnormal
In that picture, foolish Mike Johnson looks like he is already drunk. (And his wife told me his calm demeanor was not real). Yeah, right lady. Your husband is a lying scumbag and apparently so are you.
The meeting location, the Greenbrier Resort ain’t cheap. Are we paying for this charade?
Greenbrier was the designated bug-out location for Congress in the event of a nuclear war attack during Cold War times. It has a massive underground bunker complex underneath. They are probably there to dust off the place and get it prepped and ready while for when the next Ukraine bill goes through.
I bet Mike wishes he never got the job.
I wish that Mike never got the job.
POS
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4505446-schumer-minibus-proud-government-open-without-cuts-poison-pill-riders/
Mike Johnson in a nutshell. Schumer’s hero.
It is unfathomable to me that this guy could think we would approve. He doesn’t care obviously, so why does he have a job?
The disturbing thing about this is that this war is not in our interests. It is in the interests of the WEF/globalists and leftists everywhere. They want to use it to stop elections and mandate control systems over society in the name of “wartime”. I would even go so far as to say that they would ultimately want to use it to eliminate a lot of us.
It’s time to get rid of Johnson as the speaker. Ukraine is NOT a USA problem! Johnson is clearly half RINO! The half that is costing the American tax payers billion$ to one of the most corrupt countries in the world next to the USA From Washington D.C.!