'Bless his heart': Mike Johnson ridiculed on MS NOW after whine about lost vacation time
A clip of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) appearing with his wife and complaining about his lack of vacation time set off gales of laughter on MS NOW’s “The Weekend” on Saturday.
Earlier in the week, the embattled GOP leader spent almost an hour speaking with Katie Miller, the wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller who is cashing in on his name as a podcaster.
During the conversation, Johnson lamented, “It’s triage everyday,” before complaining, “I haven’t had a vacation day in two years. I haven’t been off in two years, literally. Last Christmas, I was taking calls from members with their drama. It takes everything out of whomever serves in the position — and by extension, their family.”
He also stated, “I think literally 100,000 people have my cellphone number. The greatest challenge of my day is trying to keep up. Because I miss literally hundreds of calls and text messages in a day. The peril is, I don’t know how important it was, what I missed.”
“Welcome to being speaker, sir, and also so sad,” co-host Eugene Daniels sarcastically remarked as Jonathan Capeheart put his head on the desk and moaned.
“He's saying all of this and kind of like in his, like jokey southern way. But it does deep down say that he really is struggling to deal with the chaos of his conference,” Daniels continued.
Political strategist Rina Shah interjected, “Well, I'm a girl from the south, born and raised in West Virginia, so I'm just going to say bless his heart,” which led to an outburst of laughter from the whole panel.
The unsympathetic Shah was not done.
“Wow,” she continued. “If I heard more whining than that, —-. You know, what did the speakers do back in the day when there weren't cell phones? They went, they met, they shook hands and said, listen, ‘We're going to do the right thing and talk about passing some things for the American people instead of having to play defense all the time.’”
“They're playing defense all the time simply because of the way in which they interact with the White House,“ she suggested.
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