We Have a Speaker

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Ladies and gentlemen, we had a speaker to house and I’m going to go over what we know here. Mike Johnson, Louisiana. He’s from a very red, red district around Shreveport. He has been known throughout his career to pushing very conservative positions when it comes to cultural, social issues. Actually, he worked for a couple of nonprofits.

prior to running for office as a lawyer and handling various different cases. Again, he was elected to Congress 2016, he served after he’s serving in the Louisiana State Legislature. Again, he’s defended the state’s same-sex marriage ban before the Louisiana Supreme Court. His opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion along with support for religious freedoms has continued to guide him as a legislature.

Okay, Wall Street Journal commenting on that today. And listen, I don’t have any problem with social conservatives. Again, this is a big country. Everybody’s entitled to their own views. Again, I think states’ rights are very important. I remember, you know, on the flip side, I remember Bill O’Reilly on his program, you know, always highlighting some sort of

crazy affair in San Francisco that the homosexual community would put on and how over the top it was. And I was like, Bill, you don’t live there. I mean, they want to, you know, this is the way they want, I mean, it’s the way I want to live, okay? Get a, one of the great things about having a state system and local governments is because you can move to where it best suits you.

My hope, quite frankly, is that a lot of these cultural issues, social issues are off the table right now. We have much, much bigger fish to fry when it comes to those things and the debates surrounding those things. Again, the one thing I like about Mike Johnson is he’s a fiscal conservative. He is a fiscal conservative.

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He put forward I guess they’re going to want to put forward some sort of spending measure to keep the government open for either January 15 or April 15. So they can get these appropriations bills through he’s also proposed passing a 2025 budget resolution by April and actually keeping the House in session throughout August if they can’t get the things done on time. Now, he served his head as a Republican study committee.

Again, he presided over a budget blueprint designed to balance the budget in 10 years. Pushed an idea that Paul Ryan had put forward in regards to turning Medicare into a premium support system as well. We also talked about raising the retirement age to 69. Again, all of these things are going to be used against him and they’re going to be demagogued because that’s what people of little.

A little thought, I mean, just the small minded people will do. I mean, we’ve got a problem out there. Uh, social security, Medicare are going to run out of money in 10 years, but, uh, guess what? Guess what? The, uh, the members of Congress are going to continue to ignore it. Uh, Johnson has been a strong supporter of Donald Trump. Um,

Whatever that means, again, in fact, he played a big role in pushing this election fraud issue in 2020. And interestingly enough, Ken Buck from Colorado, this is kind of interesting to think about. Ken Buck said he wasn’t able to support Jim Jordan because of the 2020 election issue, but he backed Johnson for the post. And he says that, yeah, he made a mistake, but I think people make mistakes and still can be really good speakers.

Again, that’s hopefully that they put this off the table and they focus on the task at hand. But I didn’t like, it was, you know, after the Republicans are getting together and making the announcement, a reporter, I think it was an NBC News reporter, asked a legitimate question. Asked a legitimate question about this and talking about, you know, his, you know, asked about what she called his effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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and you know Republicans started booing and one representative told the reporter to shut up.

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Aren’t they just doing their jobs? You might not like, I get it, liberal media, mainstream, eat all that stuff, but is that not a legitimate question? And do you really think the best way of handling that is by telling a reporter to shut up? Isn’t there a better way of handling that? No, we don’t wanna answer those questions at this time. We’re focusing on this, and this, and we’ll answer those later and move on.

But telling reporters to shut up, and it wasn’t Mike Johnson, or was it? I don’t know what member of Congress it was. It’s just, quite frankly, stupid. Anyway, let’s all hope that we can actually get some things done and actually deal with the spending. I am curious to see because Johnson voted against Ukrainian aid the last time around. Was it a true no vote?

or was one of those votes where I can vote no because I know it’s gonna pass already because that happens often. So a lot of these politicians kind of box themselves or prop themselves up, use leverage. So we’ll see what happens with Joe Biden’s request for $105 billion. Watchdog on wallstreet.com.