Opinion: The GOP House earns its 'do-nothing' label all over again
LA TimesLucky for the Republicans who run the House, few Americans are paying attention to their antics of late, given the focus on the presidential race. Except the House Republicans don’t have enough votes to pass the package, given the opposition of party defectors as well as Democrats. In past years, Republicans’ “poison pills” on funding bills have included proposals targeting Obamacare, abortion rights, immigrants and transgender people. The current saga is also a reminder that, if Republicans do keep their majority and Trump becomes president, they’ll act as an extension of his sorry White House — not as the independent branch of government the founders intended. At the Museum of the Bible in Washington, Johnson told the group a lengthy tale about how, amid House Republicans’ jockeying to replace ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, God awakened him in the night and told him to be ready for a “Red Sea moment.” Then, after Republicans rejected other speaker candidates over several weeks, God awoke him again, Johnson recounted.
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