{"id":56574,"date":"2024-02-14T14:23:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T14:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56574"},"modified":"2024-02-14T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T14:23:05","slug":"speaker-in-name-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56574","title":{"rendered":"Speaker In Name Only?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Mike Johnson is likely to have earned a title he wishes he could shed, which would be Speaker In Name Only.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker of the U.S. House is a SINO, given the result last night in the New York special congressional election that saw voters flip that district from Republican to Democrat, as Tom Suozzi, a former three-term congressman won his old seat back.<\/p>\n<p>Suozzi replaces the former congressman &#8212; and infamous lying sack of pig dookie &#8212; Republican George Santos, who had been expelled from the House in a landmark action.<\/p>\n<p>That puts the Republican &#8220;majority&#8221; in the House at 218-213. Four seats are vacant. The scant majority status puts almost every piece of legislation pitched by the GOP in peril.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait! The GOP-led House is more interested in impeaching Democratic members of President Biden&#8217;s Cabinet on made-up phony charges than in doing anything constructive for the nation &#8230; such as enacting stronger border enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>This is the body over which the SINO, Mike Johnson, presides.<\/p>\n<p>Nice &#8230;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Johnson is likely to have earned a title he wishes he could shed, which would be Speaker In Name Only. The speaker of the U.S. House is a SINO, given the result last night in the New York special congressional election that saw voters flip that district from Republican to Democrat, as Tom Suozzi, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker In Name Only?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[10100,1941,2184,7419,10290],"class_list":["post-56574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-george-santos","tag-gop","tag-house-of-reps","tag-maga","tag-mike-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56575,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56574\/revisions\/56575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}