Yesterday afternoon CNN ran a story headlined, “Analysis: By passing Ukraine aid, the accidental speaker became an unlikely Churchill.” It was the most distorted and grotesquely obsequious piece of ‘journalism’ I can recall running in any corporate media source.

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Johnson, Johnson, Johnson, Johnson. Of the first ten paragraphs, eight paragraphs began by invoking the Speaker’s name. They’ve finally found a Republican to love. Every single reference was gushing with affection, if not sickening romantic infatuation.

According to CNN, Johnson showed rare political courage and notable legislative skill, he put his own job in extreme peril, he stood up for a democratic nation, and he heroically and single-handedly could save thousands of Ukrainian lives:

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It was so over the top that I suspect they are really damning Johnson with liberal praise, throwing him under the RINO bus to protect the McConnell wing of the Republican Party in the House, who were the real goats.

After all, it wasn’t just Johnson. He only allowed the vote to come to the floor. In what the AP called “an overwhelming vote,” the House yesterday “swiftly approved” $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other totalitarian purposes in its rare Saturday session as “Democrats and Republicans banded together” after months of “hard-right resistance” over “renewed American support” for protecting Ukraine’s border.

Presumably, anyone who thought $61 billion would be better used to protect America’s border is “hard-right resistance.” Of the Republicans, 101 voted in favor of the Ukraine aid package (plus all democrats), and 112 voted against. Ironically, it was a GOP bill, so more democrats voted for the Republican bill than Republicans did.

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That explains why, after the warmongering pork package passed, Democrats cheered on the House floor — for a GOP bill — and waved their beloved blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flags. I wish they would hurry up and move there, since they love it so much. I hear the eastern part of the country is nice this time of year.

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House Republicans also supported passage of a bill yesterday to force TikTok to liquidate, giving the company twelve months to sell its assets or be banned from America. Regardless of whether you believe all the government hysteria about how … what, exactly? … bad is TikTok, it’s a banana-republic, crony-capitalism move against foreign-owned private property to boost more compliant domestic providers like Zuckerberg’s Meta.

I’ll probably write more about this tomorrow, now that the die has been cast. But it seems like Johnson isn’t the problem. He’s a symptom of the problem. A hundred House Republicans are the bigger problem. They defied the clear majority of the Republican base and joined with democrats to help Biden push Ukraine’s battered corpse across the electoral finish line.

Now the battle, such as it is, moves to the democrat-controlled Senate. It is sure to pass, and it will not save Ukraine. A more cynical potlatch of $100 billion dollars is difficult to imagine.