I led off my "Assortment" post yesterday with this line: "Have Paul Ryan and Mike Johnson ever been seen in the same room together?"
Today, I see this: "Paul Ryan Praises Speaker Johnson for Allowing Democrats to Seize House".
Now I know how they feel over at the Babylon Bee.
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Johnson “found his footing, and his voice. … [H]e did it as a statesman, risking his own personal political fortune for the greater good that he believes in,” Ryan told Axios Tuesday.
If he believes in what the Democrats are pushing, then he has no business leading the Republicans who don't believe it.
Exactly right.
I'd like to know what exactly the 'greater good that he believes in' consists of.
It was all because of the 'secret briefing' right?
The notion of leaders motivated by secret information undermines the very idea of representative democracy (outside a present shooting war). I'm sure that's part of what Eisenhower meant vs the military industrial complex, and he saw the formation of this.
Bruce: I think that's absolutely spot on. Wray or whoever trotted out all the FBI's usual boogermen to scare Johnson, so he went along with the FISA stuff. Not sure how they managed to turn him overnight into a Ukrainian partizane, but probably the same process: spooked him with tales of the Big Red Bear, I imagine.
And, as you point out, since the briefing was secret, we have no way of assessing the credibility of the threats.
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