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And yet.
I was right. Still am.
You people? 100% wrong.OMG, OMG, OMG - you're not going to believe this. It gets even better.
You see, I went to look up the specifics of the Executive Order that Mike Johnson was talking about. The one that banned LNG exports to the EU. I wanted to see what it said, exactly, to figure out if it was reasonable that Biden didn't remember signing it.
And you know what?
It doesn't exist!!!Yes, that's right - the Executive Order that Biden's failure to remember signing led Mike Johnson to have deep concerns about his faculties? No such executive order happened. No such EO existed. Which is why Biden's insistence that he didn't sign an EO pausing LNG exports to Europe was
right, and it was Johnson that was wrong. The DOE
did announce a pause in processing new LNG export permits in early 2024, but it wasn't an EO - so Biden wouldn't have signed it. At most he might have been briefed on DOE's policy change, but it never would have taken the form of one of an EO that Biden would have signed a few weeks earlier.
Johnson insisted to Biden that he had signed an EO. That it worried him that Biden didn't know what he had signed, because (of course) EO's are a big deal, and only a few dozen are signed each year (as opposed to policy calls by the agencies and not the President, which happen all the time). And yet it was Johnson who was completely incorrect. Biden's failure to remember signing an EO banning LNG exports wasn't a sign of Biden's failing faculties - it was a sign of Johnson getting his facts completely wrong. On supposedly a matter of immense importance to his constituents and our foreign policy.
OMG - surely this means that Mike Johnson is mega-senile! That Mike Johnson has never really been in charge of the House!
Who is the real Speaker of the House?!?! https://www.federalregister.gov/presidential-docum...
