[Breitbart] Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is a “full equity partner in the firm” of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said during a Tuesday appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
While Lee said he considered Johnson a friend and ally in the past, he said he has transitioned to the “opposite direction” and is “not on the side of the field” that he hoped. Further, Lee said he is “saddened to report that he appears to have been elevated to full equity partner in the firm” of Schumer, McConnell, and Jeffries.
“I don’t know how to explain it,” he said, noting that Johnson has adopted the ways of the “firm.”
“I’ve never seen such a flip. I’ve never seen such a transition in the opposite direction from what I expected. And, you know, I defended a number of decisions that he’s made — defended him personally in circumstances where he had made decisions I didn’t like, thinking, ‘Okay, he’s gonna find his feet.’ But I think he’s found his feet. They’re just not on the side of the field I had hoped and expected to see,” the senator explained.
Lee responded to different theories on why Johnson flipped so much as some wonder if the swamp has something on him while others ponder if better negotiators just steamrolled him. Some wonder if Johnson is bending because he is working with such a slim majority in the House. Lee, however, said he tends to gravitate toward the simpler explanations.
“To me, the simplest explanation — and, therefore, the favorite one — is that sometimes when somebody gets into a position of power, they really like being in that position of power … So maybe, for whatever reason, he’s concluded that the very best way to hold on to this position to remain as speaker for a longer period of time is to make nice with the war hawks and the intel hawks and the other militant moderate groups within the House of Representatives, even though that’s not who he has been,” he said, adding that it is also not how Johnson typically voted in the past.
“I think he’s chosen his side in order to hold on to power, and, quite ironically, by choosing to hold on to power, I suspect he may ultimately lead to his own demise as a speaker,” Lee predicted, noting how Republicans are somehow unable to get anything done with slim majorities, but Democrats do not seem to have that problem when they are in a similar position.
“Why is it that the bare simplest of thin majorities for the Democrats in the Senate — where you have to have 60 votes to pass most things — why is it that the Democrats get literally everything they want in the Senate, and Republicans, where a simple majority carries the day, get absolutely nothing that they want in the House,” he said, blasting Johnson for making arguments without explaining how he has come to his conclusions, largely hiding behind sensitive compartmented information facilities (SCIFs).
“If you can’t justify a vote by what you can say in public, you might be doing it wrong. In fact, you probably are, but under no circumstances do you go out there and say, ‘I’m right. And you’re wrong. But I can’t tell you why.’ That’s not appropriate,” Lee said.
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Dewey, Scruem, and Howe. Besties with Paul Ryan? Buh Bye traitor.
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Johnson is the fourth Stooge. He’s Schemp.
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^Maybe you don't give the man enough credit - because, as of now, closing the borders is not enough. You also have to deport these who're already in - and that would require (very) wide public support.
[ZERO] In a move aimed at Donald Trump, House Democrats have introduced a bill that would remove Secret Service protection for any former executive sentenced to prison for a federal or state felony.
How fortunate that the Republicans still have a slight majority in the House, and so retain control.
The bill comes from Democratic Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, who, in a fitting Deep State overlap, is not only the former Jan. 6 committee chairman but also the ranking member of the Homeland Security committee. Introduced Friday, HR 8081 has 8 cosponsors so far -- all Democrats.
These days, nearly every bill comes with a goofy, forced acronym, and this one's no exception. Thompson has titled it the "Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act."
The measure seeks to address an admittedly huge conundrum that would arise in the event Trump gets jail time for any of the various politically-motivated prosecutions he's facing around the country: How would Secret Service agents operate inside a prison?
If Thompson's bill became law, they simply wouldn't. That would make possible Democrats' fever dreams of Prisoner Trump getting shivved in a prison shower, and negate their dread that a judge might choose to sentence Trump to house arrest out of mere practicality.
As Homeland Security committee Democrats wrote in a fact sheet describing the bill: There can only be one reason this action is being offered.
Whatever the source.
The LSD's know, in order not to swing, when Trump is re-elected. There is a need to have or set up another JFK situation.
But how about also adding "any NON-USA born elected person and/or those that came to power illegally and/or violated the US Constitutional Law while in power"?
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Donald Trump is undergoing a criminal trial in Manhattan. He is charged with filing corporate records that included a false statement; namely, that payments to Michael Cohen that were described as being for legal services were, in fact, to reimburse Cohen for making one or more payments to Stormy Daniels in exchange for a non-disclosure agreement. But those payments to Daniels were perfectly legal, and filing a false corporate document is a misdemeanor on which the statute of limitation has passed.
So in order to charge Trump, District Attorney Alvin Bragg had to allege that the false documents were filed in order to cover up another crime. That would make it a felony. But what is that other crime? Bragg has been coy about it. In truth, there was no other crime, and Bragg’s prosecution is election interference on behalf of the Democratic Party, plain and simple.
Which means what, exactly? I suppose the translation is that Trump didn’t want voters to know about his fling with Daniels. But an “illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of a presidential election” does not define a crime. The “hush money” payment was legal, not illegal. And Trump’s desire that voters not know about his relationship with Daniels was no different from Biden’s desire, in the 2020 election, to prevent voters from learning that he was senile. Both candidates wanted to conceal something from voters, but neither candidate committed a felony to do it.
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^ Add to that Biden's desire for people to not know he showered with his daughter.
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#8, you took way too many words to say "two tiered justice system."
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The Jan. 6 Committee put on a Communist show trial that wasted our hard-earned money. The so-called committee was constituted of Trump haters. This bill put forth by Bennie Thompson is yet another attempt to
[GEO.TV] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... on Monday rejected suggestions that Washington might have a "double standard" when applying US law to allegations of abuses by the Israeli military in Gazoo
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"In general, as we're looking at human rights and the condition of human rights around the world, we apply the same standard to everyone. That doesn't change whether the country is an adversary, a competitor, a friend or an ally," he said.
"When it comes to allegations of incidents or whether it's violations of international humanitarian law, rights abuses...we have processes within the department that are looking at that incidents that have been raised. Those processes are ongoing," Blinken said.
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[ZERO] In a move aimed at Donald Trump, House Democrats have introduced a bill that would remove 
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
