Johnson has set an ambitious schedule for the House GOP, with a number of fiscal fights that will immediately come into play. What I suspect Republicans are about to learn is that their fiscal animosity, expressed by House Freedom Caucus types over the past decade, are all on the outs now. Johnson is simply not a fiscal conservative, nor does he have any of the libertarian-ish tendencies of the blue-state Republicans of recent years. Ideologically, the closest thing in national politics to Johnson is Mike Pence.
If Kevin McCarthy brought a PowerPoint to the job of speaker, Johnson brings the adult Sunday school workbook. At his church in Louisiana last week, his pastor announced to the body “a prayer for any leader who is in a position of authority in America, if their heart is to bring harm to Israel, God that you would deal with them accordingly, and we need people who will unashamedly courageously boldly say: we stand with the people of God.”
So I’m thinking Israel will get that aid. Speaker Johnson, the floor is yours. Good luck keeping it.
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