Don’t get your nobodies blended up.
They are Rep. Mike Johnson and Rep. Dean Phillips.
Johnson, 51, is the right-wing, Christian traditionalist Republican from Louisianna who was simply elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Phillips, 54, is the liberal Jewish Democrat from Minnesota who simply introduced that he’s operating for president in opposition to Joe Biden.
Just two weeks in the past no person knew who they have been. Maybe folks nonetheless don’t.
But now each previously unknowns are in positions to make nationwide information and have an effect on nationwide coverage — Johnson by selling a halt on federal spending and different conservative insurance policies, and Phillips by embarrassing Joe Biden within the New Hampshire presidential major and maybe elsewhere.
Johnson, a four-term member of the House, was elected Speaker final week, a job he by no means sought or hoped to get, after 22 days of wrangling amongst House Republicans following the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California.
Phillips, in his third time period within the House, launched his long-shot bid to unseat Biden final week in New Hampshire after failing to get the getting old Joe Biden to step apart for a brisker and youthful Democrat or face defeat by the hands of Donald Trump or another Republican.
Biden is blowing off the New Hampshire major, the place he ran poorly 4 years in the past, opting to run within the friendlier South Carolina major, which the Democrat Party has formally positioned earlier than New Hampshire.
Sanctioned by the Democrat Party or not, New Hampshire goes to carry the primary major anyway. Even if Biden won’t be the poll, displaying by Johnson could be a humiliation to Biden, particularly if Biden supporters conduct a write-in marketing campaign for him,
“This was not about me,” Phillips mentioned in an interview, about his lack of ability to get Biden to see that it was time to move the torch to a youthful Democrat “because it appears that President Joe Biden is going to lose the next election.”
Despite repeated requests, Biden refused to satisfy with Phillips.
Phillips, a businessman, is likely one of the wealthiest members of Congress. His father was killed in Vietnam when he was an toddler and his mom later married Eddie Phillips, inheritor to the Phillips Distilling Company. He is the grandson of the late private recommendation columnist “Dear Abby.”
Johnson is the son of a Shreveport firefighter who was disabled within the line of responsibility. He is a lawyer, a Christian evangelist and a Donald Trump supporter who believes that God performs an lively position in an individual’s life.
As he mentioned upon his election as Speaker, “I don’t believe there are any consequences in a matter like this. I believe that the Bible makes it very clear that God is the one who raises up those in authority. He raised up each of you. All of us. And I believe that God has allowed and ordained each and every one of us to be here at this specific moment.”
Progressives, significantly within the woke institution media, couldn’t wait to start mocking Johnson for his non secular beliefs.
What is little recognized about Johnson is that he and his spouse Kelly as newlyweds offered a house for Michael, a 14-year-old black youth who’s now in his 30s and has a household of his personal. While Johnson maintains a detailed relationship with Michael, he has requested to not be concerned in Johnson’s public life.
Johnson has mentioned Michael “shares his testimony that, were it not for our intervention in his life, that he would certainly have joined a gang, gotten on drugs, wound up in prison, or dead on the street somewhere.”
How many progressive politicians have you learnt who’ve performed the identical?
Johnson is a Republican and Phillips is a Democrat, they usually disagree on many issues.
But it ought to come as a wake-up name to progressive open border Democrats that the 2 agree on a number of burning points, not the least of which is shutting down Joe Biden’s open southern border.
Phillips mentioned immigration will probably be a key a part of his marketing campaign. “Having been to the border twice, it is not secure.”
Johnson, who visited the border with Donald Trump, and filed laws to safe it, mentioned, “You cannot just open the borders and allow everybody in the world in. It doesn’t work that way.”
These nobodies have gotten somebodies.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”