House Speaker Michael Johnson: Just Another Neocon Traitor
For all intents and purposes, Nikki Haley or Lindsey Graham could be U.S. House Speaker, and we wouldn’t know the difference. Michael Johnson has quickly morphed into another two-bit warmonger and big-government, police-state shill like virtually every House Speaker before him—at least in modern memory.
Before taking the Speaker’s chair, Johnson had a reputation of being a pro-peace, fiscal conservative who wanted to secure America’s borders and stop the out-of-control deficit spending in Washington. That Michael Johnson is no more! The new Michael Johnson is a measly, cowardly, pathetic little weasel whose backbone is made from jelly.
First, see how Johnson betrayed his oath to the Constitution by being the deciding vote in passing the FISA bill with Section 702 intact. This is the Let-The-Government-Spy-On-You- And-Illegally-Raid-Your-Home-Without-A-Warrant bill. And again, Johnson cast the deciding vote to pass it. In so doing, Johnson joined the Deep State coalition that includes traitors such as Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff.
Republican Speaker of the House Flushes US Constitution Down the Toilet
As I predicted on April 11, the police state got the Republicans to reconsider and to pass their warrantless spying and home entry. The Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson cast the deciding vote that nixed the warrant requirement.
This tells us all we need to know about Republicans. They are part of the problem. See this.
Edward Snowden reports that the situation is even more serious than I thought. A section of the FISA Act is being enlarged to require every company and person that provides any internet-related service to assist NSA surveillance.
“This bill represents one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history.”
Secondly, Mike Shedlock perfectly pegs Mike Johnson’s passage of a 95 billion dollar aid package for Ukraine and Israel.
Mike Johnson Goes Full Neocon, Nikki Haley May as Well Be House Speaker
In a speech that Nikki Haley would endorse 100 percent, Speaker Mike Johnson begs the House to approve more aid to Ukraine and Israel to the tune of $95 billion total.
The Wall Street Journal reports Mike Johnson Opposed Ukraine Aid. Then He Risked His Job for It.
“I really do believe the intel and in the briefings that we’ve gotten,” Johnson said. “I believe Xi [Jinping] and Vladimir Putin and Iran really are an axis of evil,” warning that Russia could march west across Europe if not stopped now. “To put it bluntly, I would rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys.”
That is a false dichotomy.
One does not have to make a choice between sending bullets or men to Ukraine. One could easily do neither or both.
Sending bullets does not preclude further stupidity such as sending troops.
Dave Stockman, Ronald Reagan’s former budget director, blasted Mike Johnson for his speech.
This is why Speaker Johnson must go. His statement is laced with neocon paranoia, stupidity, lies and hollow excuses for warmongering. Putin has no interest in molesting the Poles, to say nothing of storming the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. And Russia has a GDP of $2.2 trillion versus NATO’s $45 trillion.
China’s $50 trillion debt-ridden Ponzi would collapse in months if its $3.5 trillion flow of export earnings were disrupted by an attempting landing by its single modern aircraft carrier on the California coast. And Iran has no nukes, no intercontinental range missiles and a GDP equal to 130 hours of US annual output.
Some Axis of evil!
When House Republicans booted Kevin McCarthy for Mike Johnson, I confidently predicted Johnson would be no better and might prove to be much worse.
The results are now in. Johnson is proven much worse. To get deals, Johnson has even agreed to exp
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