Showing posts with label Mike Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Johnson. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

$30 billion is not jet fuel for the economy

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  ‘Big beautiful bill’ may help some seniors on Social Security. But it doesn’t eliminate taxes on benefits  ... The new additional senior d...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

If it hasn't been jet fuel since 2017, it won't be now

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Real GDP has been 2.43% compound annual 1Q2017 through 1Q2025. And that includes all the obscene pandemic spending. This isn't even clos...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

House Speaker Mike Johnson's spending bill is in big trouble with the US Senate's Ron Johnson

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  Sen. Ron Johnson: Spending Cuts In House GOP's Budget "Basically A Rounding Error," Adds $22 Trillion In Debt ... You have h...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Andrew Sullivan today: The GOP Congress has long since become the equivalent of Putin’s Duma — a rubber-stamp body designed solely to support the executive branch

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  Here .                     (shadow banned by Elon Musk)

Democrats united under Hakeem Jeffries in the US House are the only ones in American politics above water right now

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 US House Democrats voted unanimously against the Republicans' continuing spending resolution under -4.2 underwater Republican Speaker M...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson wants to straight up demolish an entire US federal district court in retaliation against judges who issue rulings he doesn't like, just because he can

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  ... "We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of fundi...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Impeaching judges turns into big headache for Speaker Mike Johnson lol

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 Hill Republicans already hated the ‘idiotic’ call to impeach judges. Then Trump jumped in.  ... Impeachment proceedings, even when they don...
Saturday, March 8, 2025

The do-nothing US Senate under John Thune has passed 0 of 5 appropriation bills passed by the US House under Mike Johnson who still hasn't passed the other 7 and now they all want to pass Biden's spending instead through FY2025 to please phony Republican Donald Trump

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Thursday, February 6, 2025

Kinda like a libertarian convention

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  Trump’s tax cuts are ‘stuck in the mud’ as Republicans split over spending    . . . fiscal hawks said they could not support the massive p...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

This is just BS from Speaker Mike Johnson about LNG exports and Joe Biden's memory

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 Whatever may be said about Joe Biden's memory, he didn't have a memory lapse in this instance as alleged by the Speaker of the US H...

Speaker Mike Johnson and Senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts say Chicom's TikTok is toast

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  “The law is very precise, and the only way to extend that is if there is an actual deal in the works,” Johnson added. “I think President ...
Friday, January 3, 2025

The powers that be had a little talk with Norman and Self, who changed their votes to Mike Johnson, making him Speaker of the House 218-215-1

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 Hard turd Thomas Massie can't be flushed.  

Chip Roy (TX-21) was silent for Mike Johnson, then 13 minutes later voted for him because he did not want to be "that guy" lol

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Matt Gaetz is not in the House today, that's why we have 434 not 435. He resigned after winning re-election. That vote could have come i...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

This would be quite the payback to Trump for Jan 6, 2021 lol

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 The House Speaker election is January 3, 2025. You've got 34 Republicans pissed off at passage of the American Relief Act on December ...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Hakeem Jeffries repays GOP for pulling original continuing spending resolution last week: Mike Johnson's House speakership won't be saved by Democrat votes in January

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  Jeffries: There Will Be No Democratic Votes To Save Speaker Johnson Or MAGA Republicans From Themselves   . . . there will be no Democrats...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Do you think these guys even once sat down together to discuss the continuing spending resolution before this week's fiasco?

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 Maybe James Braid, new Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs, knows lol.   Is this James Braid?
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Trump's first defeat lol: You might say the two billionaires were shown who's boss

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 Second continuing spending resolution goes down in flames, after Elon Musk and Donald Trump said Nay to the first one, which never even cam...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

House Speaker Mike Johnson rings the poaching alarm

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   "But I've told President Trump, enough already, give me some relief. I have to maintain this majority. And he understands that,...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Rep. Matt Gaetz resigns to avoid House ethics report on Friday

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    House Speaker Mike Johnson revealed at a news conference Wednesday evening that Gaetz had submitted his resignation from Congress. The ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

ICYMI: The House Republican spending bill with Trump's provision to stop non-citizen vote fraud was defeated on Sept.18 202-220 because of 14 Republican No votes, 5 Republican No shows, and 2 Republican fools voting present

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  House GOP torpedoes Speaker Johnson’s funding bill : A diverse group of House Republicans torpedoed Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) propos...