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Wait, Speaker Mike Johnson Compared Himself to Moses?
Of course he did.
It certainly wasn’t long ago that the congressional GOP was in search of a new Speaker of the House, after the far right faction determined they were going to make it impossible to govern otherwise. Of course, given this modern day Republican Party, it was every bit the saga we all thought it would be. But evidently, at least for Speaker Mike Johnson, the saga has not ended.
He’s now comparing himself to Moses.
In a speech to a far right group at a gala, Speaker Johnson said:
“I started praying more about that. And the Lord began to wake me up through this three-week process we were in, in the middle of the night, and to speak to me. And [I began] to write things down, plans and procedures and ideas on how we could pull the conference together. I assumed the Lord was going to choose a new Moses. And “Oh, thank you, Lord: You’re going to allow me to be Aaron to Moses.” [In the Hebrew Bible, Aaron is Moses’ brother and a priest who aids him.]
I worked to get Steve Scalise elected. And then Jim Jordan. And Tom Emmer. Thirteen people ran for the post. The Lord kept telling me to wait. And I waited and waited. And it came to the end, and the Lord said, “Now, step forward.” “Me? I’m supposed to be Aaron.”…”
