Are we watching a speech from a Democratic Long Island New Yorker returning House member about the border policy turning the new Republican House Speaker’s actions on the policy into a BIG PROBLEM that seems over his head…
And have some looking back a Kevin McCarthy….
They guy they booted for Mike Johnson….
Interviews with multiple Republicans over the last few days across multiple House factions — people who consider themselves on Johnson’s team, as well as those who were never enthusiastic about his rise — describe a speaker who seems to be winging it on major questions of strategy, messaging and basic vote-counting.
Dismay over Johnson’s seemingly limp grasp on the speaker’s gavel has even produced a new trend of sorts: McCarthy nostalgia.
“Kevin would have a strategy, he’d shop it around, then he’d make a play call,” a senior Republican lawmaker said. “The more I’m around Johnson, the more it’s clear to me he doesn’t have a plan.”
Some are even going on the record. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a libertarian gadfly who was never considered a McCarthy ally, openly pined for the former speaker last week after Republicans suffered another embarrassing floor defeat.
“Getting rid of Speaker McCarthy has officially turned into an unmitigated disaster,” he tweeted
It’s not getting any easier for Johnson. To start, there’s the $95 billion supplemental spending bill funding aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan that arrived Tuesday from the Senate.
For months, Johnson has struggled to articulate a strategy for dealing with the issue…..