Speaker Johnson – Was The Promised ‘Army of Jesus’ the Tipping Point For his Ukraine Support?

Apparently Mike Johnson’s voice inside his head from where ever, did not speak to taking care of us and our border. Instead, it told him that one of the most corrupt countries in the world found more favor. That all of what he had pledged to his colleagues and to us could be cast aside. So here goes the tale:

“An army of Jesus”: Inside Mike Johnson’s come-to-Jesus moment ahead of Ukraine reversal so reads the headline. (Salon)

In the hours before Speaker Mike Johnson said he was willing to lose his speakership to help Ukraine, he met with the evangelical leader of Ukraine’s National Prayer Breakfast, who says he told Johnson they could create “an army of Jesus.”

It was Pavlo Unguryan’s third reported meeting with Johnson this year. As one Christian Republican insider asserted after Saturday’s House approval of $61 billion for Ukraine aid, evangelical messaging “definitely tipped” Johnson and House Republicans.

….the religious and intel motivations complement each other. National-security warnings that Ukraine will fall without U.S. aid would take on heightened urgency if Johnson started to see Ukraine as an evangelical redoubt and potential wellspring of missionary action in a godless Europe.

…..

Right-wing religious conservative Marc Thiessen on Friday asserted that Wednesday’s meeting didn’t change Johnson’s mind, he was always going to push Ukraine aid through. But, reportedly, Johnson was still praying about what to do on Tuesday. So what happened?

CBN spoke to Unguryan about his Wednesday meeting with Johnson.

“To be honest, brother Speaker Mike Johnson is a great leader. He has a great heart,” said Pavlo Unguryan, a former member of parliament and a Ukrainian Christian who met with Johnson at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday.

He told CBN News he saw Speaker Johnson as far more than a political leader. He viewed him as “a brother in Christ.”

When the two met, Unguryan framed Ukraine’s war with Russia as a spiritual battle between good and evil.

“For us, it’s a call to action to unite together—to unite together an army of Jesus,” he explained.

This time, Unguryan had brought along evangelical Baptist Serhii Haidarzhy, whose wife Anna (a pastor’s daughter) and four-month-old son Tymofii were killed by a Russian drone strike last month.

Read more

But Johnson’s religious fervor is only getting started we shall  soon see. His wrath is about to descend.

Johnson wasn’t elected to be an evangelist. He was elected to carry out the wishes of his party. In this case, securing the border was paramount. He confirmed this time and again that he understood this.

His arrival to the public scene right after elected as speaker, in an evangelistic tone with arms raised, proclaimed that his wife had been on her knees for weeks and now she could rise.

I have seen this before. A Christian who sooner or later will believe that his decisions sooner or later will be coming straight from the almighty. All of them.

The attention is exhilarating. He is now proclaimed hero of the Uniparty. And he is just getting started. Johnson’s wrath descends. His long finger points and goes after Matt Gaetz. Johnson supports GOP Rep Roy Gonzales. Gonzales has no time for Gaetz.

Johnson makes  a needless entrance into a primary food fight. Needless? Or is he revealing his feelings about the Conservatives and MAGA in particular.

Enter Matt Gaetz. Chip Roy sits on the Rules committee where the pious Johnson double crossed Roy and the some other GOP members and joined with the Dems to push forward the bill through with an arcane method. The first time ever in the history of congress. See earlier post:

Speaker Johnson Surrenders Control of House to Dems – Foreign Aid Moves Forward

The headline reads:

Mike Johnson Steps Smack Into a Major House Intra-GOP Food fight

Republicans are fighting after one representative called some of his colleagues “scumbags.”

The opponent Gonzales is referring to is his far-right primary opponent Brandon Herrera, who describes himself as a “YouTuber, Second Amendment Absolutist” and VERY Politically Incorrect.”

In a stunning interview Sunday morning on CNN, Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Republican congressman from Texas, accused fellow Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of having sex with underaged girls.

“It’s my absolute honor to be in Congress, but I serve with some real scumbags,” he said. “Look, Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties.”

Paul Ryan, a member of the Fox Corporation Board of Directors, praised House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for permitting Democrats to seize control of the House last week.

Democrats steamrolled Johnson by successfully pushing Biden administration’s agenda through the House. Johnson gave Biden “pretty much everything” Biden asked for “without having to concede much in return,” Punchbowl reported.

Johnson “found his footing, and his voice. … [H]e did it as a statesman, risking his own personal political fortune for the greater good that he believes in,” Ryan told Axios Tuesday.

Sources: Breitbart

LA Mag

Salon

CBN

Now, Johnson, relishing his Churchill moment, moves on to New York City to calm the troubled waters of the Universities.

The best of the swamp indeed.