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WATCH An MSNBC Host SHRED A GOP Congressman For Calling Her A ‘Democrat Operative’

Earlier this week, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) voted to open an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden, but when MSNBC host Symone Sanders tried to ask why he had done so, he got defensive and suggested she was a “Democrat operative.”

That was an enormous mistake on Burchett’s part.

Sanders asked the congressman what evidence he had that would prove the president committed high crimes or misdemeanors. Rather than answer, Burchett recited a hackneyed talking point about the president taking repayments for a truck loan from his son, Hunter.

“I haven’t heard a high crime or misdemeanor yet,” Sanders told Burchett.

“Are you gonna let me answer the question, ma’am? I know you’re a Democrat operative and work for a Democrat consulting firm, but —“

Sanders: “Alright, congressman, let’s do it then.”

“I did use to advise a number of individuals, I’ve also advised some corporations and companies, but here I’m just here to be an advocate for the viewer,” she said. “And I will ask you one last time. What is the evidence that the committee has that Joe Biden, while he was president, committed a high crime, misdemeanor, or treason. Because that is the bar for an impeachment inquiry.”

Burchett responded, “You have to ask yourself, ma’am, why a vice president or a president would get $40,000 through a Chinese communist corporation…”

Once again, Sanders put Burchett in his place.

“With that thank you very much, congressman it’s always a pleasure, you just can’t come on here and lie.”

Republicans don’t have diddly squat when it comes to proving their harebrained conspiracy theories about President Biden. But that won’t keep them from marching in lockstep like good cult members to please their lord and savior, Donald Trump.

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WATCH: Jim Jordan Looks For The Exit When MT Greene Brings Up ‘Sex Trafficking’ By Hunter Biden

Things got incredibly uncomfortable for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) during a press conference that was hastily called by House Republicans after Hunter Biden refused to testify before a committee despite being subpoenaed to do so.

Biden said he would testify, but only in public session, an offer which was refused by members of the GOP.

After Rep. James Comer (R-KY) told reporters that a loan repayment from Hunter Biden to his father, President Joe Biden, appeared less-than-kosher, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) raised the issue of sexual trafficking by the president’s son.

“I would like to have asked Hunter Biden about… sex trafficking women across state lines!” Greene insisted.

Jordan, who appeared shaken by Greene’s remarks, immediately ended the press conference.

“Thank you very much,” he said as he turned and walked away.

Greene continued to speak in Jordan’s direction: “That would have been a good question but you don’t seem to care about that!”

Video of the press conference quickly went viral and drew plenty of commentary on Twitter.

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett Explains Why She Calls Republicans A**holes – And It’s Perfect

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is making it clear that she’s convinced the vast majority of Republicans in Congress are complete jerks and need to be voted out of office in the 2024 election.

Why? Because they’re assholes.

Crockett was a guest Monday on “The Breakfast Club” radio show, and she was asked by host Charlamagne tha God why she had referred to members of the GOP as “assholes,” HuffPost reports.

“Cause they are, what do you mean?” Crockett replied with a laugh.

What specifically led Crockett to that conclusion?

The congresswoman noted that she sits on the House Oversight Committee and has to put up with some of the very worst Republicans have to offer.

“This is where the impeachment inquiry is, and it’s insulting that we have idiots like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Jim Jordan. You just name all of the nonsense Republicans, and they sit on this committee, and they sit there so high and mighty. And they talk noise constantly, and they’re like, ‘Oh, the Biden crime family.’ And I’m like, ‘I’m sorry. Have you met the Trumps?’”

Crockett added: “Like, who is it that’s in court like every day or every other day with something, whether it’s the fraudulent businesses that he’s run or whether it’s his criminal issues on the state level, on the federal level. And you’re trying to make something out of nothing? Is this what we’re doing?”

When Charlamagne brought up that the son of President Joe Biden, Hunter, had just been indicted on tax charges, Crockett countered that the current president’s son isn’t serving in the administration the way Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump did while Donald Trump was in the White House.

The Republican-led impeachment inquiry being launched by House Republicans is nothing but payback for the two impeachments of Trump, both of which were based on evidence and facts.

Republicans aren’t just assholes. They’re also spiteful clowns who don’t have enough self-awareness to realize they’re in a cult of personality and on the verge of destroying their party just so they can curry favor with one man.

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WATCH Matt Gaetz Get Trolled To His Face At A GOP Christmas Party For Allegedly Sleeping With Underage Girls

When he showed up at the annual Strongsville, Ohio GOP Christmas party, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) probably didn’t expect to be trolled to his face and on video for his alleged penchant of having sex with underage girls and then paying them hush money via Venmo.

And yet, there the Florida Republican was, though he probably wished he could have transported himself somewhere else.

Cleveland Scene reports:

Gaetz was presented with a surprise award: for his dedication to using Venmo to allegedly have sex with underage girls.

As you can see, the person who pulled the gag on Gaetz was rudely escorted from the stage by a cop.

When the laughter died down, the congressman tried to recover, telling attendees, “Ohio has become the beating red heart of the Midwest, and so I’m here to celebrate with some of the activists.”

After the video began circulating on Twitter, it drew plenty of commentary.

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McCarthy’s Constituents Trash Him As He Retires: ‘Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out’

As he prepares to leave Congress and head back to the California district he’s represented since 2007, Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy may be anticipating that he’ll be well-received by his constituents.

But based on a fascinating report from Andrew Gumbel of The Guardian, many residents of the district — the largest city of which is Bakersfield — aren’t exactly eager to see McCarthy back in in their midst.

“If you went through the wringer he went through, I suspect there’s a little humiliation, a little embarrassment. Maybe he’s licking his wounds and wants to go off into the sunset,” said Greg Perrone, president of the Greater Bakersfield Republican Assembly, an activist group that hews to McCarthy’s right. “Still, I’m a little disappointed that he didn’t finish the term that he was elected to serve. That’s not what we expect from our elected leaders.”

Consider some of the letters to the editor of The Bakersfield Californian, many of which are filled with stinging rebukes of McCarthy, including calling him quitter for retiring early.

“Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kevin,” two of them wrote last week. One added: “You haven’t represented us in a very long time.”

Even Bakersfield mayor Karen Goh gave McCarthy the back of her hand, saying she was “too busy” to provide even a brief quote regarding the former speaker.

Some in the district complain that McCarthy has never been interested in their needs and has instead spent most of his time in other parts of California in an effort to raise fundraising dollars for himself and the GOP, which doesn’t exactly do them any good.

McCarthy’s district, California’s 20th, extends well beyond Bakersfield into the farmlands of Kern and Tulare counties and into the suburbs of Fresno, the largest city in the Central Valley. It was redrawn before the last election to make it more solidly Republican, relieving McCarthy of any significant pressure to fight for his own congressional seat. He scarcely visited during last year’s campaign, focusing instead on raising hundreds of millions of dollars for more competitive districts in California and the rest of the country.

For his part, McCarthy is making it clear he’s still interested in politics on a national level, especially if a future Republican president has a cabinet post that needs to be filled by an insider who has lots of contacts in Congress and can always be counted when it comes time to ask donors to write a check or two for the GOP effort.

Historically, McCarthy will go down as a lesson in the personal greed for power that drove both his rise to the top and the crash that left him as little more than a historical footnote who is only interested in what he can do for himself.