Gut-punched…
The Project 2025 oligarchs have gotten their primary objective, a Speaker of the House who is an election denier, and a fresh face for the Christo fascist nationalists in the FRP. Mike Johnson was a front man for the amicus brief with over 125 Republican Representatives signatures in support of the challenge brought by Texas AG Ken Paxton of election results in four swing states.
According to MSNBC, he is a strong Trump acolyte and was part of Trump’s defense team in the Senate during his impeachment trial.
“The Louisiana Republican, for example, recently pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland on a misguided conspiracy theory involving the Justice Department and Hunter Biden. Johnson was also an early proponent of trying to “expunge” Donald Trump’s first impeachment. What’s more, the speaker(-designate) has pushed for a national abortion ban.”
The NY Times reports that in addition to Johnson’s opposition to the continuing funding of aid to Ukraine, Johnson’s election:
“put a socially conservative lawyer who opposes abortion rights and same-sex marriage, and who played a leading role in congressional efforts to overturn the 2020 election, second in line to the presidency.
Elected to Congress in 2016, Mr. Johnson is the most junior lawmaker in decades to become speaker.
He may also be the most conservative. An evangelical Christian, Mr. Johnson is the former chairman of the Republican Study Committee and sponsored legislation to effectively bar the discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity at any institution serving children younger than 10 that receives federal funds.
He served on former President Donald J. Trump’s impeachment defense team, played a leading role in recruiting House Republicans to sign a legal brief supporting a lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election results and was an architect of Mr. Trump’s bid to object to certifying them in Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.
CNN reports that Johnson has also written in support of the criminalization of gay sex.
Jeffries response:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/desperate-gop-turns-election-denier-race-house-speaker-rcna122071
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/25/us/house-speaker-vote-mike-johnson
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/25/politics/mike-johnson-gay-sex-criminalization-kfile/index.html
That sounds about right for the FRP. Another rabid destroyer with no platform, except support trump. I am so looking forward to 2025 when, barring an outright war with the extremists, we may once again have a functional government under Biden.
Gut punched indeed.