It must have felt so good when Mike Johnson began his daily routine Thursday refreshing the home page of The New York Times and seeing his face at the very top accompanied by an article heralding him as “Speaker of the whole House” following Democrats’ rescue of his job.

If this isn’t what he lives for, I’m not sure what is. It’s certainly not to do anything remotely in the interest of Republican voters.

Since he was elected speaker six months ago, Johnson’s victories are limited to voting to fully fund Joe Biden’s back-breaking agenda, heaping 60 billion more taxpayer dollars into a corrupt slush fund (sometimes called “Ukraine”) and giving up any leverage Republicans had in forcing the administration to address the nation’s most urgent problem — the bleeding Southern border. Oh, plus he re-authorized warrantless spying on Americans.

To be fair, he can’t say he got nothing out of it. For fulfilling their complete wishlist, Democrats and the media did compare Johnson to Churchill. He also declared himself a “wartime speaker.”

Those prizes proved to be short-lived. After Biden announced this week that he would halt additional offensive military equipment if Israel advances ground troops in Rafah, Johnson ran to his other favorite publication, Politico, to say this wasn’t what he had hoped the president would do.

“I went straight to the White House and I said … ‘Somebody’s going to have to explain this to me, because it’s very different than what I was told,’” said Johnson.

In a gift to Democrats, Ohio’s Republican House speaker blocked legislation that seeks to prohibit the use of foreign money in ballot measure campaigns.

On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled Ohio Senate advanced an amended version of HB 114 to ensure Biden will be able to appear on the Buckeye State’s 2024 general election ballot. As The Federalist previously reported, the office of Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose sent a letter last month notifying state Democrat Party Chair Liz Walters that the Democratic National Convention’s current date is more than a week after the date by which presidential candidates must be certified in Ohio.

Legal counsel Paul Disantis warned that the DNC “must either move up its nominating convention or the Ohio General Assembly must act by May 9, 2024 (90 days prior to a new law’s effective date) to create an exception to this statutory requirement.”

With the expectation already established that Ohio would act to enable Biden to qualify, Senate Republicans attempted to score a boon of their own as they passed a bill to help rectify Democrats’ scheduling mistake. When the Senate passed HB 114, they added provisions prohibiting foreign nationals from expending funds, including “independent expenditures,” for Ohio ballot measure campaigns. Foreign donors such as Swiss national Hansjörg Wyss, who funnels millions to Democrat dark money groups, would be barred under the measure from making expenditures “advocating support of or opposition to an identified ballot issue or question or to achieve the successful circulation of an initiative

Do you remember reading about George Washington demanding sandwiches from King George for his starving Continental Army at Valley Forge? No? The average committed revolutionary doesn’t often ask for a free lunch from the enemy, particularly when that revolutionary is taking over the enemy’s property. 

While the campus brats holding a national temper tantrum on behalf of terrorists should be committed (to a mental institution), George Washington they are not. After all, their cries for “freedom” are for a “resistance” movement whose rallying cry is actual genocide of a people. 

The privileged protesters creating chaos at the nation’s esteemed institutions of higher education like to think of themselves as revolutionaries. They are, to the degree that the young, indoctrinated Bolsheviks were useful idiots to Trotsky, Lenin, and Joseph Stalin in the communist revolution of 2017. Then again, had Trotsky asked for a hot meal and a bottle of Evian from Tsar Nicholas while tearing down the Russian empire, he probably would have gotten an ice pick to the back of the head sooner.  

While today’s campout demonstrators’ demands include the usual pro-Hamas slogans — “divest, disclose, boycott, demilitarize and denounce” — the “from the river to the sea” chanters also want vegan cuisine. 

‘It’s Crazy to Say’

Johannah King-Slutzky, a graduate student in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, recently demanded that her university’s administration provide the campus terrorists “basic humanitarian aid.” 

“Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill even if