Forbes Magazine: 'JUST IN: Mike Johnson Delivers First Remarks As Speaker Of The House'

Source:Forbes Magazine- U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (Republican, Louisiana) the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, in the 118th Congress.

"The newly-elected 56th Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) spoke after being handed the gavel and assuming his new role." 

From Forbes Magazine

I will get into new Speaker Mike Johnson's speech here, but I first want to get into why he might be the current Speaker of the House. Which is no offense to the new Speaker, (and I wish him the best for the sake of America) is a lot more important and interesting here. 

The final vote to make Mike Johnson the Speaker, was 220 Republicans and 0 Democrats for Mike Johnson and 209 Democrats and 0 Republicans for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. 6 representatives didn't vote at all, which might be another story, but Speaker Johnson needed almost his entire conference to vote in favor of him, for him to become Speaker Johnson. Assuming not one House Democrat voted for him for Speaker and voted for Hakeem Jeffries instead. 

In case you are just waking up from a coma, (no offense to comatose patients) or have been vacationing in Afghanistan for the last month, (no offense to Afghanistan) the House Republican Conference is literally divided between what's left of the center-right of the Republican Party, (the real Conservative Republicans, not RINOS) and the House MAGA Caucus, who are literally dedicated to protecting the political career and freedom of Donald Trump, as well as their own, regardless of what the facts and evidence that Donald Trump is currently facing and will face in the future. 

Representative Mike Johnson comes from the MAGA wing of the Republican Party, at least since 2021 when he not only fought in the House to overturn the 2020 presidential election and declare Donald Trump the winner and then served as one of Donald Trump's lawyers when he was impeached for the 2nd time in 2021. 

And then you have what's left of the establishment wing of the Republican Party, the real Conservatives in the party, who believe in old fashion American values like facts, evidence, character, morality, honesty, justice, accountability. And they apply those conservative values to everyone, not just Democrats. 

So you have these two competing factions in the House Republican Conference right now and they all voted for Mike Johnson to be Speaker of the House. Which tells me that Mr. Johnson had to do something to keep the entire MAGA Caucus behind him, without losing establishment caucus (let's call them) in order to become Speaker of the House. Because you have 20-30 House Republicans who are up for reelection next year, who are in Democratic leaning districts, with President Joe Biden up for reelection in those districts as well. So I want to know what the new Speaker did to get both factions of the House Republican Conference behind him, so he could become Speaker of the House.

As far as the speech: good speech. The new Speaker showing some good political humor and suggesting that he's willing to work with Democrats for the good of the country. But words are just things that you say. They mean nothing if you don't back them up with actions. So we'll see what the Speakership of Mike Johnson is like and will be like, over the next few months.

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