framers couldn't account for the speaker of the house being a pathetic toady
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Robert Maguire
"I do think there has to be accountability. Congress has the power of the purse, of course. And we have oversight responsibility. And we’ve been vigorously using both of those powers." - Mike Johnson, May 2024.
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None of them would be able to conceive of the sniveling worms that the GOP has actually been.
WTF, there is nothing else that can explain this cultish devotion to chop off your own dick in service to Musk.
Autocorrect 😖
My spouse has to undergo background checks, drug testing, psychological testing to do his job.
Why do we not have the bare minimum of psych evaluations for the most important jobs that make decisions for 335 million ppl?
This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Martin
No system can otherwise withstand this kind of disregard.
I genuinely think it's really just about state militias.
https://constitution.org/1-Constitution/je/lumarltr.htm
He’s waiting for them to get up so he can search for some fries that fell in the seat cushions.
And like... if you want to be seen as equal to the main lawgiver of the three Abrahamic religions...you actually have to capable of passing laws. Thats like the main thing You Have To Do.
And people who will distort what they claim as the word of God for personal power will break human laws for table scraps.
Red heffer obsessed
"Grow a pair, idiot!"
Wikipedia article on the Führerprinzip, or Leadership Principle. Deputy Führer Vance agrees.
The slavers/framers had no context from which to predict a "Mike" "Johnson."
Enjoy my comma splice
Anyone w/ standing should sue Johnson. Barring that, he should face votes challenging his speakership.
So let’s make sure when it all goes to hell - and it will - that we blame MAGA lawmakers for backing these unqualified disasters, their ruler, and not the Dems. Let’s tear MAGA a new one every time. Let the farmers be 1st.
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/mike-johnson-christian-nationalist-appeal-to-heaven-flag-1234873851/
Johnson is just one of the more disgusting eunuchs in town.
Checks and balances are tools, but "if you can keep it" was a mandate, not a warning, to keep those tools out of the shed.
The two most powerful people in congress doing their best to make congress and themselves irrelevant.