Apparently Mike Johnson’s voice inside his head from where ever, did not speak to taking care of us and our border. Instead, it told him that one of the most corrupt countries in the world found more favor. That all of what he had pledged to his colleagues and to us could be cast aside. So here goes the tale:
“An army of Jesus”: Inside Mike Johnson’s come-to-Jesus moment ahead of Ukraine reversal so reads the headline. (Salon)
In the hours before Speaker Mike Johnson said he was willing to lose his speakership to help Ukraine, he met with the evangelical leader of Ukraine’s National Prayer Breakfast, who says he told Johnson they could create “an army of Jesus.”
It was Pavlo Unguryan’s third reported meeting with Johnson this year. As one Christian Republican insider asserted after Saturday’s House approval of $61 billion for Ukraine aid, evangelical messaging “definitely tipped” Johnson and House Republicans.
….the religious and intel motivations complement each other. National-security warnings that Ukraine will fall without U.S. aid would take on heightened urgency if Johnson started to see Ukraine as an evangelical redoubt and potential wellspring of missionary action in a godless Europe.
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Right-wing religious conservative Marc Thiessen on Friday asserted that Wednesday’s meeting didn’t change Johnson’s mind, he was always going to push Ukraine aid through. But, reportedly, Johnson was still praying about what to do on Tuesday. So what happened?
CBN spoke to Unguryan about his Wednesday meeting with Johnson.
“To be honest, brother Speaker Mike Johnson is a great leader. He has a great heart,” said Pavlo Unguryan, a former member of parliament and a Ukrainian Christian who met with Johnson at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday.
He told CBN News he saw Speaker Johnson as far more than a political leader. He viewed him as “a brother in Christ.”
When the two met, Unguryan framed Ukraine’s war with Russia as a spiritual battle between good and evil.
“For us, it’s a call to action to unite together—to unite together an army of Jesus,” he explained.
This time, Unguryan had brought along evangelical Baptist Serhii Haidarzhy, whose wife Anna (a pastor’s daughter) and four-month-old son Tymofii were killed by a Russian drone strike last month.
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But Johnson’s religious fervor is only getting started we shall soon see. His wrath is about to descend.
Johnson wasn’t elected to be an evangelist. He was elected to carry out the wishes of his party. In this case, securing the border was paramount. He confirmed this time and again that he understood this.
His arrival to the public scene right after elected as speaker, in an evangelistic tone with arms raised, proclaimed that his wife had been on her knees for weeks and now she could rise.
I have seen this before. A Christian who sooner or later will believe that his decisions sooner or later will be coming straight from the almighty. All of them.
The attention is exhilarating. He is now proclaimed hero of the Uniparty. And he is just getting started. Johnson’s wrath descends. His long finger points and goes after Matt Gaetz. Johnson supports GOP Rep Roy Gonzales. Gonzales has no time for Gaetz.
Johnson makes a needless entrance into a primary food fight. Needless? Or is he revealing his feelings about the Conservatives and MAGA in particular.
Enter Matt Gaetz. Chip Roy sits on the Rules committee where the pious Johnson double crossed Roy and the some other GOP members and joined with the Dems to push forward the bill through with an arcane method. The first time ever in the history of congress. See earlier post:
Speaker Johnson Surrenders Control of House to Dems – Foreign Aid Moves Forward
The headline reads:
Mike Johnson Steps Smack Into a Major House Intra-GOP Food fight
Republicans are fighting after one representative called some of his colleagues “scumbags.”
Another conservative appeared to be sour on House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday amid what has turned out to be a major party upheaval.
Texas Representative Chip Roy said he is “beside himself” after witnessing Johnson help out another Republican colleague, Tony Gonzales, who has openly berated some caucus members as “scumbags.”
“I’m being attacked. Conservatives are being attacked,” Roy told KTSA News. “I cannot tolerate what’s happening to the people that I think are fighting for this country… the primary season matters.”
Roy’s comments come amid a growing push from members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus to penalize Gonzales after he went scorched earth on the party’s moral standards over the weekend. More caucus members have endorsed Gonzales’s primary opponent, a far-right social media influencer. (This take according to The New Republic)
Video from the Huff Post:
“Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi,” Rep. Gonzales said. “These people used to walk around with white hoods at night, now they’re walking around with white hoods in the daytime.”
The opponent Gonzales is referring to is his far-right primary opponent Brandon Herrera, who describes himself as a “YouTuber, Second Amendment Absolutist” and VERY Politically Incorrect.”
In a stunning interview Sunday morning on CNN, Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Republican congressman from Texas, accused fellow Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of having sex with underaged girls.
“It’s my absolute honor to be in Congress, but I serve with some real scumbags,” he said. “Look, Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties.”
The Justice Department
ended up declining to bring charges against Gaetz due to credibility issues with witnesses.
In the video, Gonzales didn’t stop at Gaetz, calling out colleague and chair of the Freedom Caucus, Rep. Bob Good, a Republican congressman in Virginia.
“Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi,” Rep. Gonzales said. “These people used to walk around with white hoods at night, now they’re walking around with white hoods in the daytime.”
The opponent Gonzales is referring to is his far-right primary opponent Brandon Herrera, who describes himself as a “YouTuber, Second Amendment Absolutist” and VERY Politically Incorrect.”
And the ultimate in this saga? From Breitbart.
Paul Ryan, a member of the Fox Corporation Board of Directors, praised House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for permitting Democrats to seize control of the House last week.
Democrats steamrolled Johnson by successfully pushing Biden administration’s agenda through the House. Johnson gave Biden “pretty much everything” Biden asked for “without having to concede much in return,” Punchbowl reported.
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.
Sources: Breitbart
LA Mag
Salon
CBN
Now, Johnson, relishing his Churchill moment, moves on to New York City to calm the troubled waters of the Universities.
The best of the swamp indeed.
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