Speaker of the House Mike Johnson will travel to Texas this week, not to make another performative visit to the border he abandoned when he banded with Democrats to pass $95 billion in foreign spending, but to aid a fundraiser for his "Endangered" GOP colleague who smeared Republicans opposed to the Ukraine package.
Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales, who voted with Johnson last weekend to pass another blank check for Kyiv, pledged on CNN's Sunday "State of the Union" program that Johnson will keep his speakership despite conservative-led threats of ousting.
In return, Johnson will overlook Gonzales' egregious maligning of conservatives while wining and dining voters in the San Antonio area into throwing more money at the establishment Republican's reelection campaign.
Not even Gonzales' perilous track record seems to deter Johnson from openly allying with a representative who fell out of favor with his voters, party, and conservative colleagues in Congress.
Appealing to Democrats in Congress and even the White House seems to be Johnson's new gig.
A profile of Johnson written by RealClearPolitics' Philip Wegmann detailed how the Louisiana native "Felt he owed Biden an apology" after the new speaker was briefly caught on camera scoffing at the president's 2024 State of the Union address.
Johnson is not concerned with doing what's best for his voters or his party.
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