The inside story of how House Speaker Mike Johnson was flip-flopped on Ukraine aid starts with his top policy adviser, a former lobbyist whose clients include a number of major companies who have issued corporate statements indicating some kind of interest in the war.
Johnson’s policy director, Dan Ziegler, was–until he joined the Speaker’s office as his top policy aide when Johnson won the Speakership last year–a lobbyist with the firm Williams & Jensen. He had previously worked for Johnson in other capacities, but left Johnson to become a lobbyist and accumulated a client list that included several top companies–some of which seem to have a financial interest in seeing Congress pass Ukraine aid. The lobbying firm for which he worked represents a number of top companies. Lobbying disclosures reveal Ziegler represented many of these companies, including several that have made corporate statements about the war in Ukraine or issued press statements or other public guidance saying it could affect their business operations.
What’s more, Ziegler also represented the highly controversial News Media Alliance, which was lobbying Congress when he worked for Williams & Jensen to push a dangerous proposal that would have severely hurt conservative media. That proposal, called the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act (JCPA), has died several times in Congress but has kept coming back to life thanks to lobbyist pressure. more
The democrats made a deal with Johnson to keep him as Speaker in exchange for pushing billions more through the Ukraine money laundering machine.
Why is this coming out now? Can’t the Republicans vet their own guy? Let’s just keep replacing Speakers until the Dems win. Sheesh.
why do you congress twats need policy advisors?
ans: so you can identify the recipient of your next lawyer-blowjob
Our congress “works” for the lobbyist.
Been that way long before Obungo in 2008.
$$$$ good….
It was always worse than we thought.
It’s worse now than we think.
Do we suffer from:
(1) Status quo syndrome?
(2) Slow boiling frogs?
(3) Apathy?
(4) Laziness?
(5) Fear?
(6) Cowardice?
Until we destroy the republican party, as to what it has evolved into being, nothing will change.
Either Johnson has been compromised or He lied when making statements (promises) to the House Members to gain the Speaker’s Chair.
It sounds as though he has been “compromised and lied”.
Boehner, Ryan and McCarthy know all about being led down the rose path by RINOs, lobbyists and anti-Trumpers at the expense of the speaker’s integrity and American taxpayers, “been there done that”. !!!
A long list of liars.
repost from — Ukraine delegation visiting Taiwan
Russia has strategically destroyed Ukraine’s economy, medical facilities, energy, supply chains, ports, entire cities, housing, 10s of thousands of Ukrainian troops and civilians.
Russia’s military strength, resolve, troop commitment levels, and war-fighting strategies all lead to destruction of war fighting ability of Ukraine and attacking the psychological resolve of the population supporting Ukraine’s fighting ability (including populations and governments of NATO).
The Nato allies’ populations appear to have withdrawn popular support for what seems to be an endless war in Ukraine. Resources provided for Ukraine’s war are at the expense of every Nation’s Taxpaying public and the needs of their Nation.
How long will the “west” throw their funding and resources toward a never ending war.
What has the United States learned over the last 7+ decades from our past experiences? How much did we spend in lives and resources during Futile endless wars?
Endless Wars didn’t work then, why would it work now?
“Naïveté is doing the same thing over and over, and always expecting the same result.” ~ Niels Bohr
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/einstein-s-parable-of-quantum-insanity/
Boehner II, without being a drunk.
RINO’s are expert lemon pickers.