The newly elected Speaker of the House once worked as an attorney for a far-right Christian legal group whose work you are almost certainly familiar with. The Alliance Defending Freedom — where Johnson was once an attorney and a spokesperson — is the group behind many of the most recent legal attacks on reproductive rights and the LGBTQ community.
They only have POS to elect
if not this guy some other
all awful
If the Democrats don’t have producers and editors working up commercials all night tonight to highlight every little bit of this guy’s abortion and social security and election lies I swear to christ.
The Republican Party is Trump. It would be nice if the media picked up on this fact.
Democratic Opposition Research is going to have a field day. Let us hope it works. Otherwise, release the cats.
“Your race, creed, and sex are what you are." Ok, there are different ways to construe that statement, but coming from a right-wing, white, southern man with Johnson’s background, it means “I am a racist, a religious bigot, and a misogynist.”
And all that’s just his set-up for “And also a homophobe.”
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And you forgot, “slavery was good.”
Rep. Mike Johnson: “Let’s make 1850 great again!”
Shades of Hitler, Ceaușescu et al: must breed to maintain the dominance of the master race.
Johnson appears much smoother, less overtly offensive than Jordan or even McCarthy, and publicly speaks in reasonable tones but it’s pretty clear there’s a hardened theocratic ideologue under the hood and there will be no give or take where it matters on policy. Democracy beware.
And, in another editorial, he wrote, “Your race, creed, and sex are what you are, while homosexuality and cross-dressing are things you do,” he wrote. “This is a free country, but we don’t give special protections for every person’s bizarre choices.”
Any reporter care to ask him why “creed” is biological, but “homosexuality” is a choice?
(I’ll wait.)
As DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene (D-WA) told Kate just moments ago, “there are no moderates left on the Republican side.”
And that’s just the way the Chaos Monkeys caucus wants it. Took them 15 years and the purge is almost complete.
Please don’t hang by the neck, waiting for this. It won’t happen and, even if it does, no one will care. Most of America isn’t even paying attention to this story, even if we are.
This happened this afternoon:
I’m glad it has.
However, it’s not enough of a deterrent. He’ll be at it again before the next sunset. And it’ll be worse. And the fine won’t even come from his own pocket, so where’s the penalty?
So apparently religion is not a choice but part of what you are. We should have known that if the House Repubs ever found a “consensus” candidate, if would be someone so repulsive to anyone with empathy and a functioning brain that he would be a complete non-starter for anything bipartisan. But he looks like an insurance agent and thinks like a dedicated member of the Inquisition so they definitely found their man.
Let me just add
White check
Male check
Religious zealot check
Good hair check
Extreme homophobe check
Unapologetic racist in a nice suit
BINGO
Susan Hutchison, King County, WA Executive 2009. The voters saw thru her stealth campaign and stopped it cold.
County voters favored Referendum 71, the measure to affirm benefits for gay and lesbian domestic partners, by…66 percent. King County trounced Tim Eyman’s latest initiative by a similar blowout percentage.
Wrong year to try to sneak in a Republican or someone who contributes cash to Mike Huckabee.
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/susan-hutchisons-stealth-campaign-fizzles/
Since I am Deist and Deists penned our Constitution it is time for us to become a Deist nation.
So all the POS Bible Thumpers may take a hike.
Would it be evil to hope his wife and any daughters become pregnant?
