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Elon Musk just pulled the House of Representatives back from the brink of betraying the American people yet again and continuing to fund the out-of-control leviathan that is the federal government. So why not make him speaker of the House?
The fight over the 1,547-page spending bill that the House was about to approve took an unexpected turn Wednesday, when Elon Musk came out strongly on X against that would have kept the government going through March 2025, and in the process, give Congress a 40% pay increase, maintain funding for DEI programs, and even fund ongoing efforts to restrict the freedom of speech. Musk wrote repeatedly on his X account about the far-left, wrongheaded, and ridiculous aspects of the bill, pointed out that the legislators who were supposed to vote on it didn’t even have enough time to read it and insisted that no major legislation of this kind should be voted on until President-elect Trump assumes office.
Once Musk had alerted the world to just how bad this bill was, Trump came out against it. Shortly after that, House Speaker Mike Johnson withdrew it. And then Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) drew the obvious conclusion: “The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress… Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk.. think about it… nothing’s impossible. (not to mention the joy at seeing the collective establishment, aka ‘uniparty,’ lose their ever-lovin’ minds)” Well, when you put it that way, it does sound very good indeed.
After all, Trump has tabbed Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head up the new Department of Government Efficiency, which will be dedicated to cleaning up the government and stopping the wasteful spending that is a real pandemic in Washington. What better way to do that than by one of them becoming House speaker? That way, Musk or Ramaswamy would be in a perfect position to put a stop to the longstanding practice of passing these impossibly lengthy bills that no one who is voting for them could possibly have read and that contain all manner of poison pills that the American people would never have approved if these measures had been made subject to a referendum.
There was widespread discontent with the bill, which was marketed as a “Continuing Resolution” (CR) to keep the government going but actually contained all manner of pork. Before Johnson withdrew the bloated measure altogether, Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Tex.) wrote on X: “I’m voting NO on the CR and much like the American people, I’m getting tired of governing this way. The federal government has become addicted to writing blank checks, not for voters, but for illegal immigrants, foreign countries, and, in some cases, even terrorist organizations. This is NOT acceptable.”
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
Good idea, but how many RINOs in the house – yeah, there are few but enough to flip the house to the Dems – would sabotage him if he did? Now, even Matt Gaetz ain’t there and his seat is vacant (I don’t think President Trump did a good job in yanking him from the House). Otherwise, either Musk or Ramaswamy would be a great choice. But if enough Congressmen were real Matt Gaetz or MTG type of conservatives, Jim Jordan would have been speaker: they wouldn’t have had to settle for Mike Johnson
I just hope there is a shutdown before December 31st, and no, I have no sympathy for bureaucrats living in the priciest counties in the country who won’t get paid. Once the new President & Congress is sworn in, they can work on the new budget
somehistory says
A large part of the problem, as I personally see it (and I’m not in any way political), is that those people in charge of writing and passing laws, either don’t know the law, don’t understand the law, or they just don’t give a fig about the law…unless they can charge their enemies with breaking it.
For instance, a guy from GA (he’s one year short of 80) was being wheeled into the capitol and a reporter began snapping his photo. The old guy screamed and accused her of breaking the law…”who gave you the right to take my picture?” and used an expletive insult. Then, the aid who was pushing the chair, told the reporter the same thing…not to take photos of the entry of the rep to the building.
Now, I’m no lawyer (my son is) but I have studied Law, Federal and State, and it is not against any law to take a photo of anyone….anyone, even old politicians in the House….who are out in public. The Constitution gives the reporter who took his pic the “right” to do so.
Reps who get paid to make laws the rest of us have to follow, should know the law, or he should leave Congress.
So, if Mr. Musk has more common sense, and more sense of the Law, then who is to say what can be done? Sen. Paul gets most things correct.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dem-rep-david-scott-unloads-on-photographer-outside-the-capitol-who-gave-you-the-right-to-take-my-picture-a-hole/ar-AA1wfaTG?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=a81ee7b81ced4fd6889550ae475125ba&ei=28
Greg says
The more I think about it the better it sounds!
St Croix says
I can see that iconic anti-Trump protester screaming at the very idea. “Nooooo!”
Bring it on.
Mike Johnson. Everyone can see now. Didn’t many see even then what he really was?
Anyway, I don’t know if Elon would want the job! But someone like him is needed.