Speaker Mike Johnson continues to push the much-proved-lie about “healthcare for illegal aliens”. The lie is a favorite of Republicans and the MAGAsphere. But a lie is a lie no matter who pushes it and how many times it’s pushed.

And, Mike Johnson has a long history of pushing anti-Democracy lies.

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WBW

Posted 2023-10-25

America and Its New Speaker; End Getting Close

After weeks of digging, House Republicans have unearthed their new Speaker. And, it must be noted that it is not a Speaker meant to insure continuation of The Great American Experiment

Who is Mike Johnson, the new Republican House speaker?

Louisiana congressman is solid part of party’s right wing and played a role assisting Trump’s efforts to overturn 2020 election ~

The far-right Louisiana congressman Mike Johnson won a floor vote to be speaker of the House on Wednesday, elevating him to a top position in US politics and capping an unlikely and sudden rise to power.

Johnson was elected to Congress in 2016 and has kept a relatively low profile since then, though he is socially conservative and a solid part of the Trumpist right wing of the party.

Johnson served on Donald Trump’s legal defense team during his first impeachment. He currently serves as vice-chair of the Republican conference, a position to which his party colleagues unanimously re-elected him last year, and as a deputy whip.

He played a key role in assisting Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, the New York Times reported last year. When Texas filed a lawsuit at the US supreme court asking the justices to set aside valid electoral votes from Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona, he organized a friend-of-the-court brief in support and got 125 of his House Republican colleagues to sign on. Read full story at The Guardian

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This, of course, should not come as a surprise to anyone near or over the age of forty, or anyone, who has  read a book or two on the history of the 20th Century.

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