The post title is a riff on what the Gret Stet media says any time a Louisiana politician becomes prominent nationally: They’re good for Louisiana. It’s rarely if ever true. Steve Scalise has never been good for Louisiana. Bill Cassidy now holds a key Senate chairmanship, which he has used to enable Bobby Junior. How is that good for Louisiana?

The worst of this barrel overflowing with rotten apples is Speaker Mike Johnson. He was plucked out of obscurity after Matt Gaetz and the so-called Freedom Caucus took out KMac. Despite having once described himself as “David Duke without the baggage” Steve Scalise wasn’t extreme enough for House wingnuts. Enter Mike Johnson.

Johnson looks like a small town lawyer, banker, or preacher. He has a small mind to match, which he has put in service of  the MAGA cult. Johnson is the sycophant’s sycophant. He’s nothing without Trump’s support and not much with it. I could call Johnson a waste of space but that would be a waste of space.

Johnson has turned Congress upside down with his attempt to cover up the Epstein Files. He’s cancelled votes, called unnecessary recesses, and worst of all denied the voters of the 7th district of Arizona representation in Congress. Why? Adelita Grijalva has vowed to sign the Epstein Files discharge petition as the decisive 218th vote, that’s why. Johnson keeps making lame excuses, but he’s shown fleeting signs of conscience over the Grijalva swearing in. They never last long. He has presidential boots to lick, after all.

Johnson is an evangelical Christian. He seems to have adopted the Kaiser of Chaos as his own personal Jesus. He’d never put it that way, but how else can you explain evangelical support for an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon? They think he’s:

Johnson is an enthusiastic culture warrior. Who cares what he thinks about Bad Bunny performing at the next Super Bowl? Hip hop is not my jam, but I don’t care if a rapper plays the halftime show. I’m unlikely to watch the Super Bowl unless the Saints make it and the chances of that are slim and none. And slim got lost at a MAGA rally. Oy, just oy.

I wrote a takedown of the Speaker in 2023, Mike Johnson’s Family Values, which had a wave of hits recently. Johnson’s father and stepmother were ardent environmentalists who urged a saner course on the Congressman. Instead, he went bonkers and drank the MAGA Kool-Aid.

Here’s a money quote from the aforementioned post:

Mike Johnson is the logical end product of decades of religious extremism and climate denialism. He’s the political equivalent of a cancerous tumor that has metastasized and spread through the body politic. He’s a pious hypocrite who believes in dangerous fairy tales about climate change and the Dipshit Insurrection.”

He’s also bad for Louisiana.

Johnson is such a Trumpist stooge that his picture is in the dictionary next to synonyms for sycophancy: Flunky, toady, bootlicker, henchman, and the like. My favorite synonym is running dog, which is what the culture warriors in Mao’s China called their enemies. What’s more ironic than calling a sycophant to a dog hating president, a running dog? It’s a mic drop moment courtesy of the worst House Speaker in American history.

Repeat after me: Mike Johnson Is Good For Louisiana? You must be fucking kidding me.

The last word goes to Cowboy Mouth: