Mikey Johnson has been in the news a lot recently. Now he has the House pissed at him because he is shutting the session down early, with nothing until time for midterms. There will be no time for votes on anything, whether regarding AI or other issues. May we please get a better Speaker? (Preferably Pete Buttigieg because he can be apolitical. Silly idea, yes, mentioned earlier this year.) Johnson’s wimpiness is getting old. Let’s mention not swearing in a new representative because she would be the 218th signature needed for an Epstein Files release. He eventually bowed to pressure, especially because people were in the middle of work that needed to be finished.
Johnson is ridiculously protective if something involves Trump. The House doesn’t matter much, but Trump does. We’ve had rage before. We’ve had intense actions before. But Mikery doesn’t think about his constituents. He doesn’t think about matters to be handled in the House. He just wants to shield Trump as much as possible. His energies go toward protecting his orange god instead of the country and the needs of the people.
Do you see Johnson doing anything for America? Because Trump isn’t for America. Trump is for himself. He can do quite enough to protect himself. Johnson needs to do his damn job. It’s challenging to figure out how to get Johnson to tell us what he’s going to do, and it usually isn’t his job. He does everything else *but* his job. He’s getting worse and worse. It’s been months that all he has tried to do is what Trump wants.
Here’s the kicker. There are two, possibly 3 if Massie can get the signatures, issues to address. We bet he’s closing the House early to prevent doing anything.
We have AI to control.
We potentially have another Epstein bill coming to force the release of the rest of the files.
Here’s the main one that Johnson seems to be avoiding. Articles of Impeachment for Hegseth. He *really* doesn’t want to deal with that. By closing early, he avoids the issue til Congress is back in session, and that’s weeks from now. We don’t exactly know why he wants to avoid it, but the people in the House apparently do. I value Raw Story:
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was widely condemned Wednesday after canceling all House votes for Thursday — which would have been the chamber’s “last day until after Election Day” — sparking accusations that the move was designed to dodge impeachment proceedings. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) issued a brutal condemnation of Johnson. “For the TWENTY-EIGHTH day this year, Mike Johnson has canceled votes, this time to avoid voting on Hegseth’s impeachment,” Houlahan wrote in a social media post on X. “Do your job, Speaker Johnson, so we can do ours.”
SCORCHED. Johnson *isn’t* doing his job. He’s running. He’s hiding. He’s afraid of what the people of the House might do, especially regarding Hegseth. We don’t know much at this point about why he’s avoiding impeachment proceedings for Petey Boy. Perhaps it’s because it would make Trump look bad? Trump chose his ‘cabinet’ (and they’re all garbage), so Johnson has to protect them, too. Is leaving early to prevent votes because of actions against Hegseth?
They’re not going to go away, and it will fester until the House is back in session. Johnson is tap-dancing around, trying to deter certain actions. They’re not going to go away just because they are on a break, and could very well come back twice as hard when it will be around midterms. Then Mikey is going to have his hands full. Nice.
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While I loathe Kegsbreath as much as pretty much anyone who visits this site (other than that one particular troll), having the House hold an impeachment vote really wouldn’t be worth much since it requires ~67 votes in the Senate to get rid of him (it’s 67 with all 100 Senators present but I believe fewer Senators there to vote, it lessens the number for the crucial getting him out of office).
There’s also the time factor involved. The Senate doesn’t just automatically take the case and render its decision; it can take a couple of weeks for the “trial” and final vote. And, again, without some sense that a good 20 or so GOP Senators are fed up with Kegsbreath enough to remove him from office before proceeding with the whole thing, it won’t remove the problem. And Drumpf certainly won’t see this impeachment proceeding as any real incentive to fire Kegsbreath–that would still show that Drumpf “made a mistake” and his massive overbloated ego will NOT tolerate that. Kegsbreath hasn’t really done anything that Drumpf didn’t approve in the first place or that Drumpf didn’t want done in the first place–if Drumpf didn’t fire the man after Signalgate, he’s not going to do it now (Drumpf only removes *his* people if THEY create the situation that proves embarrassing to him–like gNoem).
Nicely stated Joseph.
So it’s not worth the effort. Great. I have to remember to quit writing about it, then. But yes, well said.