In the long-drawn-out drama within the Republican party, a new character has entered center stage. New York Representative Mike Lawler appeared before Anderson Cooper on CNN to denounce members of his own party.

Rep. Mike Lawler joins Anderson to talk about the package to send aid to Ukraine and Israel, the push to oust Speaker Mike Johnson and the fractious state of the GOP conference. pic.twitter.com/90nPgjTVJ7

— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) April 19, 2024

Representative Mike Lawler blames Matt Gaetz and “seven useful idiots” for the current turmoil the media keeps telling us about.

With Marjorie Taylor Greene and now Mike Lawler constantly running to the media, it seems like tattle-taling to most Americans. And the media serves it up hot so that the American people can moan and groan.

Now, I am not suggesting for one moment that I, a lowly civilian with a family and a job who likes to blog occasionally, know anything about the inner workings of our nation’s politicians in DC. Still, I will give some advice to all of them.

Shut your pieholes and just go to work. Do the work. I am so sick of seeing all of them on television running their mouths about so-and-so this and so-and-so that, especially when it comes to people in their own party. How about focusing on what the left is doing and stopping that?

After all, let’s take a page from Joe Biden’s book. He is a fine example of working together, right? When a president of the opposite party praises your work, you can’t be wrong; it shows you are fair, balanced, stable, and sensible. In other words, it means you are a civil person and not a useful idiot.

During a May trip to the Hudson Valley to speak about contentious debt ceiling negotiations, President Joe Biden did something that has become rare in our hyperpartisan political world: He offered praise for a Republican member of Congress. “Mike’s on the other team, but you know what? Mike is the kind of guy that, when I was in Congress, they were the kind of Republican I was used to dealing with,” Biden said of Rep. Mike Lawler.

Lawler did not shy away from the praise of the Democratic president, gladly accepting the words that other members of his party likely would have rejected. “Joe Biden showed up in my district, and I was there,” Lawler told City & State. “I sat down with the president and I talked to him about the debt ceiling and about the migrant crisis.” Biden won what now makes up the 17th Congressional District by over 10 points in 2020 even as Lawler eked out a victory for an Assembly seat, and Democrats hold a significant voter enrollment advantage there as well. “I don’t win if I don’t find areas to work together with the president when I can,” Lawler said. – City and State NY

You know what else, Mr. Lawler? You also don’t win by ignoring the things you don’t find common ground on. Which makes me wonder: What do you find in common with the Democrats to work on?

While Mike Lawler is lining himself up with the old guard of the grand old party, the useful idiots are busy with the work of what I think most Americans want. There is a faction of us out here who work daily, have a family they are trying to provide for and want good things and a fruitful future for our offspring. And we do it with liberty and freedom. Remember us? We are what you like to refer to as Most Americans.

Personally, I like it when the politicians work for us.

Remember when Marjorie Taylor Greene proposed federal legislation to ban the gender transitioning of minors? Yeah, more of that, please. How about coming together and doing something on this new butchery of Title IX that Biden just took away from women.

But to bring this back to Mike Lawler and useful idiots, do not worry—he’s working hard, too.

Lawler projected confidence that foreign aid legislation will pass the House despite the threats against Johnson.

“The foreign aid bill will pass,” Lawler told Cooper.

“It must pass,” he continued. “The United States has an obligation as leader of the free world to support our allies at this most critical juncture and to make it clear to our adversaries that we will not tolerate their actions and what they have done to undermine and destabilize the free world.” – The Hill

I wonder how long he took to come up with that little diddy about obligation.

Only time will tell what will happen within the Republican party. Maybe next week we will all be writing about a new Speaker. I hope not, and in the meantime, I will pray that they can get their act together.

Just stop the constant jockeying for position and do your job. All of you.

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