I don't understand what you're confused about. I didn't say that Democrats would lead the House. I've been saying the opposite. Democrats certainly don't have enough votes on their own. I also didn't say, nor implied, that a Republican moderate led House wouldn't need Democratic support to pass legislation, unless they catered to their extremes. My belief is that a moderate Republican led House would find it hard to get legislation to draw 111 Republicans (1/2 of their coalition) to meet the Hastert Rule, but it could be done, however that that legislation would have to also draw up to 106 Democrats, depending on how many Republicans they get. It would have to be moderate legislation to draw Democrats. That's a tall order, so not much would pass, but I think there could be SOME bi-partisan legislation. I don't expect any from this congress led by Johnson.
There is a huge difference between a far right vs a moderate Republican. Jordan wouldn’t have and Johnson probably will not allow Democrats to get any of their interests in legislation. They will pass everything on a party line.
Before entering elected office, Mike Johnson, the new Republican speaker of the US House, praised “18th-century values” and told an audience that Americans should live by them when it came to morality and religion.
In video footage of a forum hosted in 2013 by Louisiana Right to Life, an anti-abortion group, Johnson, a devout Baptist and then an attorney for rightwing groups and causes, is asked about the “condition of conscience” in Europe and Canada regarding abortion policy.
Saying he has just given “a seminar … to a bunch of high school kids in Shreveport”, Johnson quotes George Washington and John Adams, saying the first two presidents and other founders “told us that if we didn’t maintain those 18th-century values, that the republic would not stand, and this is the condition we find ourselves in today”.…..
New House speaker Mike Johnson praised ‘18th-century values’ in speech
Louisiana congressman told audience at 2013 anti-abortion event Americans should live by 250-year-old religious and moral valueswww.theguardian.com
Before entering elected office, Mike Johnson, the new Republican speaker of the US House, praised “18th-century values” and told an audience that Americans should live by them when it came to morality and religion.
In video footage of a forum hosted in 2013 by Louisiana Right to Life, an anti-abortion group, Johnson, a devout Baptist and then an attorney for rightwing groups and causes, is asked about the “condition of conscience” in Europe and Canada regarding abortion policy.
Saying he has just given “a seminar … to a bunch of high school kids in Shreveport”, Johnson quotes George Washington and John Adams, saying the first two presidents and other founders “told us that if we didn’t maintain those 18th-century values, that the republic would not stand, and this is the condition we find ourselves in today”.…..
New House speaker Mike Johnson praised ‘18th-century values’ in speech
Louisiana congressman told audience at 2013 anti-abortion event Americans should live by 250-year-old religious and moral values
Well, when you're fed bs all your life, that is what you get.
He would, if the press would even ask those questions. I will be pleasantly surprised if there is any serious questioning done by the DC press.
www.the-independent.com
I saw where the dates do not add up, like, at all. That he “adopted” this 14 year old boy when he was 25, a full two years before he got married. I have not verified this myself but am repeating what I have seen posted many times. He wouldn’t have been allowed to adopt a teen as a single man, according to social workers, so it’s unclear what sort of arrangement this was, how it came about, or really anything at all about this. It just seems weird right now. I would hope there could be more clarity about this, if indeed he isn’t telling the truth about when this child was “adopted”.After questions bubbled up around why the new House Speaker Mike Johnson’s “adopted” Black son has been largely absent from his public life, the Louisiana Republican offered an explanation.
Since winning the speakership, Rep Johnson’s personal life has come into the spotlight, as some have noticed that his adopted son Michael was not pictured in a family portrait posted on the Republican’s official site.
The congressman’s bio also doesn’t mention him: “Mike and his wife Kelly, a former school teacher from Webster Parish and now a Licensed Pastoral Counselor, have been married since 1999 and have four children, Hannah, Abigail, Jack and Will.”
Mr Johnson, who is white, has publicly described his relationship with Michael, who is Black, in the context of race.
“I have walked with him through discrimination that he has had to endure over the years and the hurdles he sometimes faced,” he said in 2019 while testifying against reparations for slavery. “I know all this because I was with him.” He added that his son also opposed reparations because it strayed from an “important tradition of self-reliance.”
After the death of George Floyd, the Louisiana congressman once again mentioned Michael, this time in order to compare his experience to that of his biological son, Jack. He said during a 2020 PBS interview: “Michael being a Black American and Jack being white Caucasian. They have different challenges. My son Jack has an easier path. He just does.”
He has even compared his and his wife’s decision to take “custody” of Michael decades ago to “The Blind Side.” In the same interview, he asked the host: ‘Have you seen the story ‘The Blind Side’? That was our story, except my Michael was not an NFL prospect…we took him in as our own.”
Now, under intense scrutiny in his new gig, he was forced to address the absence of his son, who he previously talked about so frequently.……
Mike Johnson explains his ‘adopted’ Black son’s low profile
Mr Johnson, who is white, has publicly described his relationship with Michael, who is Black, in the context of race
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