The Right-Cheek Ass Clown for July, 2025

I could whine and complain about the difficulty of picking these award winners, but today there's no need - the choice is simple.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, 

The Right-Cheek Ass Clown Award for July, 2025

is presented to

Speaker of the House of Representatives

Mike Johnson (R, LA-4)

Mr Johnson could easily have won this award, his second*, simply on the basis of his success in masterminding Congressional approval of Der Furor's disastrous "One Big Beautiful Bill," but he cemented his dishonor in the wake of the terrible flash floods that killed more than 100 people in Texas this past week. When an interviewer on “Fox News** Sunday” asked whether there was more that Congress might do to help the victims of the disaster, Mr Johnson said that,

“In a moment like this, we feel just as helpless as everyone else does ... all we know to do at this moment is pray.”

  

In response, commentator Fred Wellman responded,

"No. That's what pastors and civilians should be doing. We pay members of Congress to ask hard questions, start investigating, find out if the government could have done more. Do it now before the next storm. We aren't paying you to pray. We are paying you to help all of us."

I could not have crafted a better response myself. The House of Representatives, once regarded by many as possibly the finest deliberative body in human history, is now an emasculated joke, driven by a Speaker who wields his power not in service to the people, but to the whims of a rudderless, transactional buffoon who is, in turn, driven only by his appetite for power and revenge. Congressional leadership is an oxymoron, with a figurehead Speaker interested only in gaining cheap political advantage and staying out of Der Furor's social media crosshairs. 

We deserve better, but we elected worse, and we have only ourselves to blame.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, the first Poison Ivy Cluster to his Tinfoil and Toilet Paper Crown is presented to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, the Right-Cheek Ass Clown for July, 2025. I weep for the nation's future.

Have a good day and come back tomorrow for Cartoon Saturday, when - in honor of the anniversary of the Roswell UFO Incident - we'll feature cartoons about interstellar illegal aliens. More thoughts then.

Bilbo

* He was the Left-Cheek Ass Clown in December, 2023, which makes this second award his first Poison Ivy Cluster to his Tinfoil and Toilet Paper Crown.

** The official mouthpiece of the Republican Party.