I don't admire Mike Johnson: he has terrible, regressive views, and given the power, he would make our country tremendously worse for most people who don't look like him and believe what he believes.
But, given his awful approach to the world, I am impressed that he has pursued necessary bipartisan action that approaches statespersonlike behavior in preventing government shutdown, deters Russian expansionism, and counters dysfunction.
@glennf I wonder when the next bible will drop.
@franktaber I expect awful things from him the future. But he is dramatically outperforming extremely negative expectations. Nobody thought he could run the place. He's doing what needed to be done.
@glennf @franktaber that's the key: low expectations can get you excited even about mediocre performance
@mapto @franktaber See, I look at it like there is no reason for him to be good at this. Yet he is. The baseline should be “good of country, capable, etc." He is not in that mold. The fact that he can do it is sort of like watching Michigan J. Frog sing.