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1:55Now PlayingIn this moment, Mike Johnson isn’t just standing at a podium—he’s carrying the weight of a political choice that could define an entire party. A gold-plated ballroom, gleaming and absurd, hangs like a symbol of excess in a moment when voters are being asked to tighten their belts.
Rick Wilson puts it bluntly:
“Hang it around your neck like a dead animal carcass.”
That’s not just rhetoric—it’s a strategy. If Republicans choose to back a billion-dollar vanity project while costs rise everywhere else, the argument becomes simple, visual, and impossible to shake. Every vote becomes an ad. Every defense becomes a reminder.
Because in politics, you don’t just pass legislation.
You own it.
And once it’s yours—
there’s no taking it off.
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