They say it’s best not to count your chickens before they’ve hatched, but in this instance, it seemed appropriate to accord House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) a well-deserved victory lap ahead of the final House vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB).
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Following Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ (D-NY) record-setting eight-and-a-half-plus hour marathon of mendacity, during which all manner of epithets were hurled at the OBBB in the Democrats’ hopeless effort to delay the inevitable vote, “Magic Mike” took to the podium and availed himself of his own “Magic Minute” to address the House ahead of the final vote.
Indeed, it was closer to 20 minutes, but Johnson made the most of it, beginning with some much-welcomed humor when he kicked it off by plunking a giant binder down on the podium, as though he were preparing to match (or outlast) Jeffries.
LOL — @SpeakerJohnson is OVER Jeffries’ crap.
“Ronald Reagan