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Donald J. Trump wrote The Art of the Deal in 1987, which sold over a million copies and was number one on the New York Times best-seller list for 13 straight weeks.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was fifteen years old then.  Likely, The Art of the Deal was not on his high school English class reading list.  Perhaps it should have been, along with a speed reading course.

Though Johnson’s House Continuing Resolution blew up faster yesterday than he could have read it.  The 1500-plus page bill is was longer than three War and Peace novels.

When Elon Musk starts a Twitter war there is no peace.  Elon and Vivek dissected the bill.  In 280 characters or less, they told us that it was more Washington pork being force-fed to the American people who just voted to stop the DC hogs and their special interests.

Mike Johnson brokered a deal with the devil that offered everything from a Congressional member pay raise of 73k per public servant to a three million dollar study on molasses testing.

How about a new three-billion-dollar NFL stadium in DC?  If you have a House seat on the hill you get a sweet suite seat in the stadium.

All he needed and all America needed was funding to keep the government open till Trump got his feet under the Oval Office desk and some additional disaster relief for the two devastating hurricanes the southeast endured in September.

Instead, he chose to include Democrat-driven pet projects.  After the dawn of DOGE he should have known better.

Vote the straight party line on the lighter version of the bill and send it to the Senate.  The Senate is controlled by the Democrats until 1/2/25.  If they reject the bill and shut the government down it’s on them.  Government shutdowns aren’t shutdowns anyway, but politicians like to scare us.

Instead, he tried to please everyone which pleased no one once the richest and smartest man in the world spoke, er, tweeted.

Notably silent yesterday were the RINOs that would have voted with the Democrats to deliver the slab of bacon and run home for the holiday break.  Elon’s watching.  He has the money to primary you, fine folks, soon.  Don’t get him started.

Mike Johnson is gone sooner.  He won’t survive his 1/2 casting call.

Johnson didn’t read Trump’s book.  And, he wrote the wrong bill.

He didn’t read the will of the American people.  Enough already adding shamelessly to the debt.

Reading, writing, and arithmetic.