During a hearing of the House Rules Committee this morning to discuss Republican plans to open a formal impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden, one of the Democrats on the committee verbally shredded his GOP colleagues for their continued loyalty to former president Donald Trump.
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) noted that the discussion of a “sham” impeachment had originated with Trump.
“They’re upset Trump lost,” McGovern said referencing the 2020 election. “He’s upset he lost. Some of them still don’t even believe he lost. Many of them are upset that the insurrection didn’t succeed on January 6th. And today, they want to finish the job.”
“Donald Trump says jump,” McGovern added. “The MAGA extremists say, how high? Donald Trump asked them to impeach Joe Biden, and here we are.”
The move to impeach Biden, McGovern noted, is a “national disgrace.”
“I mean, I could be here all day reading quotes from your colleagues, Republicans, who basically have publicly admitted this is a waste of time after a year, after a year. So let’s be honest. We are here because Donald Trump ordered you to be here. He wants to finish the job.”
“We’re here basically because this is what the former disgraced President wants from you.”
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.
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.
Gaetz was presented with a surprise award: for his dedication to using Venmo to allegedly have sex with underage girls.
LMAO, a patriot infiltrated the Strongsville GOP event with @mattgaetz and presented him with an award for trying to sleep with underage girls. pic.twitter.com/rNDbsfY9Us
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.
I like how @mattgaetz was gonna keep it and said thank you!!😂😂
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.
NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles made House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) look like a complete fool in what may well be record time during an interview on the topic of Comer’s efforts to impeach President Joe Biden.
Nobles began by telling Comer:
“So sir, there were the two checks: The $40,000 check and the $200,000 check that came from the president’s son and into the President’s bank account. There was also subsequent bank records, which were provided through the [Oversight] Committee, that demonstrate that there were also subsequent pieces of information that went from the President to the president’s son.”
Comer: “That is not true.”
Nobles then inquired, “So that you’re saying that that information has been made up then? Where did that information come from? That came from the Committee.”
“I don’t know,” Comer claimed. “We haven’t seen that information.”
“That is Committee information that is collected from the bank records that your committee has obtained,” Nobles added.
“Just show the check,” Comer insisted.
Nobles asked Comer if he had “a canceled check for every wire transfer that’s ever come into your account?”
“Yes,” Comer replied.
Nobles confronted the chairman with more facts.
“And that’s what has been shown, there is bank records that demonstrate an exact same amount of money. Are you saying, okay, sir, are you saying those bank records do not exist? That show the money leaving the President’s account and into his son’s?”
Comer: “They were money laundering. You see wires going all over the –”
Nobles pressed further:
“Sir, answer this specific question: Is there a bank record that demonstrates the exact amount of money that came from the President’s account into his son’s account that matches the checks that then went back to him? Does that exist? Yes or no?”
“No, no!” Comer raged “There’s money coming from a law firm.”
“That doesn’t exist? That doesn’t exist, sir?” Nobles noted.
Getting angrier, Comer said, “It does not exist. It’s coming from a law firm. Who put who put the money in the law firm? How do you know the money came from Joe Biden? It could have come from one of Hunter shell companies. You have no idea.”
Nobles: “Okay. So you are saying that that money that that money exists?That transfer does exist there in the bank records that you and your committee –”
“No!” Comer again shouted “You don’t know what that transfer is.”
Afterwards, Adam Cohen of Lawyers for Good Government, wrote on Twitter, “James Comer goes from checks that confirm harmless transactions between Joe and Hunter Biden ‘do not exist’ To ‘they exist, but we claim they might be suspicious.'”
House Republicans are the Keystone Cops of the political world, and James Comer is one of the biggest buffoons of them all.
