In good company…

So, read a blurb from someone who didn’t like “election-denier” and “Christian fundamentalist” Mike Johnson, who is Speaker of the House, being third in line for the presidency.

Personally, I feel pretty good about it, as 66 percent of the Republicans in the House voted to deny the election of Joe Biden (along with Johnson) and nearly nine-in-ten members of Congress identify as Christians, according to the Pew Research Center.

That puts me squarely in the majority of the conservative party.

Of course, that does not stop Deep-Staters from resenting it.

Take the reporter who, when he heard of Mike Johnson-a true conservative-being put into place, went running to the most moderate Republican RINO he could think of: Ken Buck.

And, finding him, shoved a microphone in his face and accused Johnson of being an “election denier” and not worthy of the Speaker post.

Instead, what he got, according to Jonathan Chait (ultra-left reporter for The National Interest, a New York magazine) was this from Buck and written by Chait: “Most revealingly, when confronted with Johnson’s authoritarian record, Buck explained that it was just time to move on. ‘Yes he did (vote to deny the 2020 election), and most of the conference voted to decertify, and I think it’s very important that we get a Speaker and that we move forward.’” Oh, man, soooo sorry, no denouncement of Johnson for the poor little fella! That must have been an ‘ouchy.’

And it made me rather curious about this Jonathan Chait fella, so I looked up some history on him on NationalReview.com, in an article by Dan Mclaughlin. Seems our Mr. Chait has quite the history of attacking conservatives in the past. Here’s Mclaughlin’s take on the man:

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From page A4

“The rhetorical trick is to convince readers that the loudest alarms about Trump – that he’s a threat to democracy who won’t abide by the results of elections, as evidenced by his “stop the steal” campaign and January 6…There is, however, a problem in making that leap, and we can illustrate it with what never appears in any of Chait’s many columns on this same topic: the Democrats. Is it bad and dangerous to peddle stolen-election conspiracy theories, attack the legitimacy of election results, try to get them thrown out in court, object to certifying electors in Congress, and generally treat the winners of elections as if they have no right to exercise the powers of office? If that is your standard, there are a lot of Democrats who are threats to democracy, including Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Stacey Abrams, John Lewis, former DNC chairs Terry McAuliffe, Debbie Wasserman- Schultz, Howard Dean, January 6 committee chair Bennie Thompson, and – of course – Jonathan Chait himself.”

M-y-y-y, how the worm has turned, ‘eh?

So much for the ‘election-denier’ outlier charge!

Now, as far as the reader’s fright at Mike Johnson, a ‘fundamentalist Christian,’ being third in line for the Presidency?

Okay…so what is wrong with that?

Oh, wait…I see! You’re trying that line out Christians now…like the woke crowds are going after the Jews at present—at all those highbrow liberal universities?

I see what you did there.

Well, like I stated at the top of this article, the Congress consists of 88 percent Christians, about 5 percent Jewish believers… so if you want someone outside of those affiliations in public office…there’s probably a boat leaving for the Middle East right now.

I hear Christian/Jew haters are in the majority there.

You should feel right at home.

Robert L. Hall is a resident of Marion and has a Bachelor’s Degree in music from the University of Memphis and a Master’s Degree from Florida State University. He is the pianist for Avondale Baptist Church and a writer of fiction on Amazon eBooks.