Charlie Cooke has good words for Speaker Mike Johnson:
“I’d like to praise Speaker Johnson,” Charlie says, “who, I think last night . . . effectively said at a press conference that he was done catering to the fringe, that he was not going to spend his time worrying about one or two members using the power they negotiated to oust him...... And that if he was kicked out as a result of this, so be it.”
That's fine. Johnson has been holding up aid to Ukraine for months, but he's finally come around. So even if he's late to the party, good for him.
Still, this would mean more if it weren't coming from the side that has relentlessly bashed President Biden as a pusillanimous weakling for giving Israel only 95% of what it wants in Gaza instead of 100%. That's a helluva lot more than Johnson has given to Ukraine.
Ukraine aid is in danger of not getting a vote because nuts on the rules committee are holding it up. Here's where democrats need to put tradition aside and help pass the rule to get the bill to the floor. If they don't they are going to be complicit in Ukraine aid not getting a vote, and all for nonsense about the minority never voting for the rule. Enough. That crap needs to be in the past.
Tell that to burning corpses in apartment buildings. Enough said.
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Ignore what he says, watch what he does and does not.
To be fair, Ukraine doesn't have Israel's outsized influence on Usian electoral outcomes. Hard to beat that when a politician's highest duty to the public is to see themselves reelected.