I believe the term is “poisoning the well.”
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Ethics Alarms 
Johnson will have to work overtime to be as bad as Adam Schiff.
The media seems to feel Mike Johnson is far more objectionable than Hamas.
I wish I could say I was surprised and thought the media would at least wait until Johnson took the gavel before they started attacking him. I’d do better wishing for a piece of the Moon and a mountain of chocolate. The media does not want him to be able to do his job, the same as they didn’t want Trump to be able to do his. So now they’re going to do the equivalent of pouring a bucket of green slime over his head every chance they get.
As far as they are concerned, he never did do anything right and can never do anything right and anything right that happens is in spite of him, .not because of him. But hey, screw him and his constituency right? His constituency is the same constituency who just booted a Democratic governor after one term instead of giving him the full two terms, and regularly votes red in presidential elections. Screw them, and hopefully the next hurricane wipes them off the map, right?
The only thing worse than this are the articles being posted saying that they hope this breaks the Republican party in half and destroys them as a viable political force, the same as the other parties that have gone the way of the dodo, like the Whigs and the Federalists. After all, the brief time in which the country had but one political party was called the era of Good feelings, and the Democratic Party considers a one-party state to be ideal. In a lot of ways they are as bad as groups like Hamas and Hizbollah. Those folks don’t want anything other than Israel and a very big pile of dead Jews. The Democratic Party wants this country, and a big pile of dead Republicans.
Editorializing in headlines is part of their arsenal, after all.
What do they have against a Constitutional lawyer? I thought they loved Constitutional scholars like Obama.
I do wonder why the label election denier is never applied to those challenging the electors of Trump, Bush 1 or Bush 2
Constitutional scholars, election deniers and anti-semites are relative terms subject to which party the person belongs. Obama is a Constitutional scholar to be revered because his interpretation of it is correct; Johnson’s is not, so Constitutional scholar is a con here.
Election deniers are those who reject Democrats being elected, not Republicans. Anti-semites are conservatives and/or religious conservatives that make up the literal army of of White Christian Nationalist MAGA Republicans waiting to kill Nancy Pelosi at the first chance they get and put, I dunno, Franklin Graham in the Oval Office as a theocrat…or something like that. So Donald Trump is anti-semitic because he doesn’t understand why the secular Jews of the U.S. aren’t supporting him for moving the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, but white liberal professors riling up their students to support Hamas are not.
It’s the same double standard we’ve seen for years and years.
They can try to make me like him all they want. The fact that he was elected in 1 day makes me think that he will just roll over to the uniparty demands. If a dozen representatives refused to vote for Jordan, why would they all vote for someone who is portrayed as more MAGA than Jordan?
Michael.
I learned today that the parties want geographic distribution of the leadership and Scalise had seniority ( both are from Louisiana) which is why he was not initially considered. Only time will tell whether he was a good choice or not. His record is very conservative on the major issues and he is affable and not arrogant. He also knows how to negotiate.’
Maybe, just maybe, they wanted someone more MAGA in the Speaker job; someone who would push the conservative philosophy harder than thought Jordan would.
We are talking politics here. Don’t look for logic or intelligence.
The headlines might as well read, “Majority Republican Congress Elects Republican as Speaker!”
Followed by Greta Thunberg screaming “How dare you!”.
Check out all the journalisming being done at the Atlantic.