In columnist Marc Thiessen’s (Oct. 28, Buffalo News) absurd aspirations that House Speaker, Mike Johnson, will strive for compromise for the country’s benefit, he fails to recognize that Johnson’s personal and political history would indicate the exact opposite.
Just a few facts that Thiessen conveniently fails to mention:
1. Now in his fourth congressional term, Johnson was the primary cheerleader of a Supreme Court brief which attempted to overturn the 2020 election by negating the Electoral College results of four swing states that Joe Biden won. Like the other roughly 60 lawsuits filed on Trump’s behalf, the justices quickly added the brief to the cumulative pile of seditious garbage.
2. Johnson, as chair of the policy creating the Republican Study Committee, released a proposal in 2020 that details utter cruelty and indifference, not just to programs that help the poor, but also to those that protect the financial stability of the middle class.
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Key Points:
* Raise Social Security eligibility age for affluent, working class and poor Americans to 69 or 70, even though poor Americans don’t live as long as the affluent.
* Ditto for Medicare.
* Draconian cuts to Medicaid, Affordable Care Act subsidies and children’s health coverage.
* Eliminate tax advantages for employers to subsidize health insurance for employees.
3. Johnson not only opposes same-sex marriage and LGBTQ+ rights, he’s also defended the criminalization of gay sex. Whatever penalties he might envision are seemingly based on his intolerance and hatred more than his stated devout Christianity.
I would like Speaker Johnson to stand in front of a mirror and read the following: “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15
Timothy Galvin
Cheektowaga