{"id":6745,"date":"2023-10-27T09:12:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T13:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=6745"},"modified":"2023-10-27T09:12:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T13:12:46","slug":"heavy-is-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2023\/10\/27\/heavy-is-the-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy is the Head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><em>Shakespeare originally wrote \u201c\u2026Uneasy is the head that wears the crown\u201d, (Henry IV, Part 2).&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s been transformed from \u201cuneasy\u201d to \u201cheavy\u201d, perhaps because of the actual weight of the St. Edwards Crown of the United Kingdom. King Charles III&nbsp;&nbsp;briefly wore it at his coronation \u2013 almost five pounds. Try it sometime:&nbsp;&nbsp;balance five pounds on your head, walk around, kneel, get up, and function.&nbsp;&nbsp;No wonder he switched to the Imperial Crown&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; it\u2019s only a couple pounds of diamonds.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rookie Speaker<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson is the new Speaker of the House of Representatives.&nbsp;&nbsp;He may be the least experienced Speaker since Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania became the first Speaker in 1789.&nbsp;&nbsp;Johnson is entering his seventh year in the Congress, after a long legal career defending Christian religious values.&nbsp;&nbsp;As Johnson himself said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<em>\u201cI am a Christian, a husband, a father, a life-long conservative, constitutional law attorney and a small business owner in that order,\u201d (He) told the&nbsp;Louisiana Baptist Message,&nbsp;\u201cand I think that order is important<\/em>.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baptistmessage.com\/mike-johnson-faith-family-freedom-motivate-run-seat-u-s-congress\/\">Messenger<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Johnson\u2019s Christian faith defines his service.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cMy values follow the model of our Founding Fathers, I believe, and I think this is important.&nbsp;&nbsp;We were established as one nation under God. We are perilously close to forgetting that principle now \u2013 and we desperately need to return to this fundamental understanding.<\/em>\u201d(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baptistmessage.com\/mike-johnson-faith-family-freedom-motivate-run-seat-u-s-congress\/\">Messenger<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In his opening address as Speaker, Johnson said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>\u201cI want to tell all my colleagues here what I told the Republicans in that room last night. I don&#8217;t believe there are any coincidences in a matter like this. I believe that scripture, the Bible is very clear. That God is the one that raises up those in authority.\u00a0He raised up each of you. All of us.\u00a0<br>And I believe that God has ordained and allowed each one of us to be brought here for this specific time. This is my belief.\u00a0\u00a0That I believe each one of us has a huge responsibility today to use the gifts that God has given us to serve the extraordinary people of this great American country. And they deserve it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Art of Compromise<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">We have a God fearing man as the Speaker, and there\u2019s nothing wrong with that.\u00a0\u00a0We have a man who believes he is on a literal mission from God, to \u201creturn\u201d America to Godliness.\u00a0\u00a0And there might be some problem with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Because the \u201cart\u201d of legislation is the \u201cart\u201d of compromise.&nbsp;&nbsp;No Congressman, no political party, ever gets everything they want.&nbsp;&nbsp;Much as Democrats oppose it, the United States is still building part of Trump\u2019s \u201cWall\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;It happened as part of a compromise; the Democrats and President Biden got so much more of what they wanted, they were willing to allow more \u201cWall building\u201d as a trade-off.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They even waived the environmental studies to do it, much to the dismay of local Texas environmentalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And the question that Mike Johnson, ordained of God (and the Republican Conference) Speaker of the House, will have to answer is this:\u00a0\u00a0can he compromise to govern.\u00a0\u00a0Because he&#8217;s not a single Congressman, who expressed his faith through his political positions on gay marriage, abortion, education, and, I guess, the Presidential election \u201cstolen\u201d from Donald Trump.\u00a0\u00a0He\u2019s not just a junior legislator from Louisiana anymore.\u00a0\u00a0He is the Speaker of the House, second in line for the Presidency, and possessor of the Gavel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Governing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Johnson has an additional obligation now \u2013 the need to govern as well as stand on principle.&nbsp;&nbsp;The House faces huge problems, issues that won\u2019t go away and can\u2019t wait for the election of 2024<strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">On November 17<sup>th<\/sup>, the government will run out of money to operate, unless the Congress (House and Senate) and the President agree on a budget deal of some kind.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s that exact situation that cost Kevin McCarthy the Speakership (and John Boehner before him).&nbsp;&nbsp;Johnson must craft some deal that allows him to keep all but four of his Republican colleagues behind him, and still can pass muster with the Senate and the President.&nbsp;&nbsp;It will have to be a master effort in compromise, even from a \u201crookie\u201d Speaker.&nbsp;&nbsp;Or, Johnson, like many of his predecessors, can look for a simple extension, to \u201ckick the can\u201d down the road for a period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The President is calling for billions of dollars to support Israel, with both parties in agreement.\u00a0\u00a0And the President is calling for billions for Ukraine, which the MAGA-right wing of the Republican Party opposes.\u00a0\u00a0He\u2019s also \u201csweetening\u201d the deal for Republicans with more money for the Southern Border, and for necessary US defense spending.\u00a0\u00a0All of this is subject to negotiation, but must happen soon, certainly before the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Mission<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And finally, the American people need to see a functioning House of Representatives.\u00a0\u00a0Even Democrats are relieved that there is finally a Speaker, finally a House that can get work done again.\u00a0\u00a0So Johnson must \u201cride the razor\u201d of the House Republican Caucus, with its extremists fully empowered by their defeat of McCarthy and Scalise, and their final victory with Johnson.\u00a0\u00a0And he must do so, knowing full well that their extremism is likely to cost Republicans the majority in the 2024 elections.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s easy to mollify the MAGA-right, much harder to keep those marginal Republicans from New York and other states that gave Republicans the House majority, in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Certainly Johnson will take solace in his faith as he takes on the heavy weight of governing, of leading.\u00a0\u00a0He thinks God has given him this mission.\u00a0\u00a0I hope God will help him govern:  Matt Gaetz surely won\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakespeare originally wrote \u201c\u2026Uneasy is the head that wears the crown\u201d, (Henry IV, Part 2).&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s been transformed from \u201cuneasy\u201d to \u201cheavy\u201d, perhaps because of the actual weight of the St. Edwards Crown of the United Kingdom. King Charles III&nbsp;&nbsp;briefly wore it at his coronation \u2013 almost five pounds. Try it sometime:&nbsp;&nbsp;balance five pounds on your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2023\/10\/27\/heavy-is-the-head\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heavy is the Head&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Heavy is the Head : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2023\/10\/27\/heavy-is-the-head\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Heavy is the Head : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Shakespeare originally wrote \u201c\u2026Uneasy is the head that wears the crown\u201d, (Henry IV, Part 2).&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s been transformed from \u201cuneasy\u201d to \u201cheavy\u201d, perhaps because of the actual weight of the St. Edwards Crown of the United Kingdom. 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