Jim Jordan Reverses Course, Now Running for House Speaker

This Substack is loath to endorse any politrick, but in terms of “public servants” Jim Jordan certainly is the froth residing atop the crème de la crème; in other words, he says many of the right things, and generally stands for We the People. If only he promised to shut down both the IRS and Fed, but I digress…

Rep. Jordan has suddenly done an about face after Uniparty puppet Kevin McCarthy was ousted — how naïve and/or corrupt were all of the Republicans that had given him a chance? — after flat out rejecting any notions of the house speakership position:

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Dear Colleague:

The American people have entrusted us to lead in the House of Representatives. Our majority has had success in the first nine months of the 118th Congress. We should be proud of what we have achieved together in these divided times.

But our work is not done. Far-left progressive policies are destroying our communities, our security, and our future. We have soaring crime across the country. We have an administration with open-border policies that have caused chaos and left our country vulnerable. We’ve seen federal agencies turned on the American people—silencing speech online, targeting parents at school board meetings, and flagging pro-life Catholics as potential threats—and we’ve witnessed blatant double standards in federal law enforcement. We continue to spend too much money and Americans are suffering under President Biden’s economy.

The Republican majority must continue to address the issues that matter to the American people. We must address rising crime in major cities and reject soft-on-crime, pro-criminal policies. We must get our fiscal house in order and reduce spending so that we can leave more to the next generation than a crushing deficit. We must do our constitutional oversight of the federal bureaucracy to ensure they work for the American people—not the other way around. And we must continue working to secure the border and protect our national security.

We agreed at the beginning of the Congress that there are three fundamental things the House must do: pass the bills that need to be passed, do the oversight, and rein in the spending. Working with Chairman Green and our leadership, I helped to deliver the most significant legislative accomplishment this Congress: the strongest immigration and border enforcement bill ever. With other committee chairs and the members of the Judiciary Committee, 1 am doing the oversight and holding the Administration accountable. And 1 have been among the leaders in pushing for fiscal discipline my entire career.

We are at a critical crossroad in our nation’s history. Now is the time for our Republican conference to come together to keep our promises to Americans. The problems we face are challenging, but they are not insurmountable. We can focus on the changes that improve the country and unite us in offering real solutions. But no matter what we do, we must do it together as a conference. I respectfully ask for your support for Speaker of the House of Representatives.

It’s not like America swirled much further down the proverbial toilet since McCarthy started slow walking and stalling his party agenda, but now all of a sudden Jim Jordan has seen the writing on the wall in some kind of political epiphany, and he is ready, willing and able to take on the deranged Marxist apparatchiks installed within the illegitimate Federal government, and its various unconstitutional agencies. And it’s not like the absurdly untenable unbalanced budget is much more profligate now, or the borders are any more porous either since he initially declined the gig.

What’s a few extra months of ever worsening creeping communism, black ops money laundering, fiat counterfeiting, weaponized “justice,” lawfare, and other Banana Republic statist malfeasance after all?

Alas, Jim Jordan may very well be the latest great politrix hope.

Do NOT comply.