{"id":2223140,"date":"2024-04-17T12:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-john-kennedy-says-mike-johnson-pes-excellence-in-defense-of-house-speaker\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T12:18:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:18:30","slug":"sen-john-kennedy-says-mike-johnson-pes-excellence-in-defense-of-house-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-john-kennedy-says-mike-johnson-pes-excellence-in-defense-of-house-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. John Kennedy praises Mike Johnson for his defense of House speaker as excellent"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-john-kennedy-says-mike-johnson-pes-excellence-in-defense-of-house-speaker%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2223140&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator John Kennedy from\u2064 Louisiana defended his colleague, \u200cHouse Speaker Mike Johnson, describing him\u2063 as someone who\u200b &#8220;pisses excellence,&#8221; referencing a \u200cquote from the movie Talladega Nights. Kennedy&#8217;s support comes amidst criticism of Johnson&#8217;s leadership,\u200d with some Republicans considering removing him as House Speaker. Kennedy emphasized Johnson&#8217;s efforts under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-woman-admits-she-crashed-car-into-cop-as-a-lesson-to-him\/\" title=\"NYC woman confesses to intentionally crashing car into cop as a 'teaching moment\">challenging circumstances due<\/a> to the party&#8217;s slim\u2064 majority in the \u200cHouse.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-kennedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>John Kennedy<\/a> (R-LA) defended his fellow Louisiana lawmaker on Wednesday, claiming that House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mike Johnson<\/a> \u201cpisses excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy\u2019s comment, which references a quote from the movie <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tna3B5zqHdk\" title=\"Talladega Nights\">Talladega Nights<\/a><\/em>, comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/veteran-sound-engineer-quits-academy-after-several-awards-cut-from-struggling-abc-oscars-broadcast\/\" title=\"Veteran Sound Engineer Quits Academy After Several Awards Cut from Struggling ABC Oscars Broadcast\">amid growing criticism<\/a> of the House speaker for his leadership, with some Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2967387\/mtg-gets-support-massie-oust-mike-johnson-house-speaker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"supporting a movement \">supporting a movement <\/a>to oust him from his position to elect a new speaker. The Louisiana senator contended that Johnson is doing the best job that he can do amid the Republican Party\u2019s razor-thin majority in the House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve known Mike a long time,\u201d Kennedy said on Fox News\u2019s <em>Fox &#038; Friends<\/em>. \u201cThe man pisses excellence, he\u2019s doing the best he can under tough circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comment from Kennedy caught the host off guard, who noted that it was a \u201cvery interesting term of phrase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this comment, Kennedy discussed the possibility of the Senate hosting an impeachment trial for Homeland Security Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alejandro-mayorkas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Alejandro Mayorkas<\/a>, as the House of Representatives walked articles of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/impeachment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>impeachment <\/a>to the Senate on Tuesday afternoon. The Louisiana senator cast doubt that such a trial would be conducted by Senate Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/chuck-schumer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Chuck Schumer<\/a> (D-NY), as it would show how the Biden administration has \u201cscrewed up\u201d its handling of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-sends-1500-troops-to-southern-border-ahead-of-expected-surge\/\" title=\"Biden sends 1,500 troops to border for expected surge.\">southern border ahead<\/a> of the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republicans criticizing Johnson relates to his failure to provide security to the southern border under his leadership, with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2933865\/speaker-johnnson-motion-to-vacate-mtg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>filing a motion to vacate the House speaker<\/a> last month. On Tuesday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) announced that he is cosponsoring Greene\u2019s motion to vacate Johnson.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>I just told Mike Johnson in conference that I\u2019m cosponsoring the Motion to Vacate that was introduced by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMTG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepMTG<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He should pre-announce his resignation (as Boehner did), so we can pick a new Speaker without ever being without a GOP Speaker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/1780230330844168394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stated Sunday that Johnson \u201cseemed\u201d to be a conservative when he became House speaker, but argued that he has failed to make any real progress for House Republicans since taking on the role of speaker. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/2965548\/speaker-johnson-hasnt-held-his-ground-amid-fisa-criticism-rand-paul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>encouraged Johnson to use his power as speaker<\/a> to \u201cdo something to make us think you are different than the Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) recently came to the defense of Louisiana colleague House Speaker Mike Johnson, stating that Johnson &#8220;pisses excellence,&#8221; a nod to a line from Talladega Nights. Kennedy&#8217;s support for Johnson comes as criticism mounts against the House speaker&#8217;s leadership, leading some Republicans to consider removing him from his position<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2223141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MixCollage-17-Apr-2024-10-51-AM-3029-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MixCollage-17-Apr-2024-10-51-AM-3029-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}