The Speaker, Speaking Spew

THE SPEAKER of the HOUSE spoke, in front of many smart phone cameras, on the morning of July 3, 2025, after a night spent on the House floor and on his smart phone, coercing his fellow Reupblicans to vote in favor of Trump's big bad bill. As he spoke, the lower legislative assembly was poised to vote, and to pass a trillion dollar reduction in spending to feed the hungry and health care for the poor, and a historically large tax cut for the nation's ruling wealthy corporate plutocracy. The seemingly inevitable passage of this legislative monstrosity well before Trump's decreed deadline of July 4 promised to provide all the campaign fodder necessary for any reasonably legitimate political party to soundly defeat the G.O.P.in '26. If only the Democrats filled the bill. Thus spake Speaker Mike Johnson: "This is how the legislative process is supposed to work. This is how the nation's founders, its constitutional framers, intended it to work"...Um...excuse me, Mr. Speaker? Say what? The way it works is; that nation's billionaires, multi millionaires and corporations spend billions to purchase the politicians, hence the government, which then proceeds to legislate and govern by the wealthy elite,of the wealthy elite, and for the wealthy elite. To facilitate this, two political parties exist, one progressive,one conservative, giving the appearance of real choice, but both utterly beholden to and owned and controlled by, you guessed it, the nation's wealthy corporate elite. Thus are we the people effectively excluded from meaningful participation in the governance of our country, and reduced to submission under the tyranny of "our corporate masters", as Gore Vidal put it. Any question? None? Good. Thus proceeds our plutocratic oligarchy, the U.S.of A. What the founders actually wanted, and created, and got, was a plutocratic republic, government in whichthe "better sort" as Madison put it, wealthy men, governed on behalf and in the best interests of - the rest of us, Madison's "lesser sort". Flattering, isn't it? Bottom line is; the last, the very last thing the framers wanted waswhat we have today. For nething, they hated political parties, dreaded even the remote possibility that political parties would emerge in American politics, and lamented the system they had created when they saw it happen Within five years after Madison, et al, wrote the constitution and it was formally adopted he regretted what he and the other founders had done. He noticed, basically, that the better sort were governing not in the best interests of the lesser sort, but isntead, surprise surprise, in their own selfish best interests. And so it goes today. Five'll get you ten that back when Biden was pushing his two huge pieces of legislation successfully through Congressand into law, that Tim Johnson wasn't so all fired fired up about "the legislative preocess". The Speaker insists that his only source of wisdom, inspiration, guidance, and knowledge is the Holy Christian Bible. He thus eschews almost the entire sum total of all accumulated human knowledge. A twenty first century man, choosing to embrace a violent, barbaric, primitve stone age mentality of the bible. The most extrme closed minded abrogation of intellect imaginable. And it shows. The Speaker needs to learn much about the framers, and their attitudes towards political parties. He also needs read the part of the Bible he seems to ingore, the part where his savior admonishes him to render unto Caesar and to give unto the poor.