Congressional Republicans are getting desperate as they see their once massive lead over Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections dissipate, with some polls showing the GOP now trailing, so they’re trying to trash President Joe Biden in an attempt to divert attention from their own incompetence and the disturbing revelations coming from the House Select Committee investigating January 6, 2021.
That desperation was on full display today during a hearing of the House Transportation Committee and it came in the person of Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX), who didn’t ask a single question about transportation or infrastructure, and instead asked Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the cabinet using the 25th Amendment to remove President Biden from office.
Nehls began his idiotic soliloquy with this:
“Sadly, he shakes hands with ghosts and imaginary people. He falls off bicycles. Even at the White House Easter celebration, the Easter Bunny had to guide him back into his safe place. This is, if he stays awake.
“So my question for you is, sir, have you spoken with any other cabinet members about implementing the 25th Amendment on President Biden?”
That’s when Buttigieg took out a can of whoop-ass and opened it up on the Texas Republican, expertly destroying him:
“First of all, I’m glad to have a president who can ride a bicycle.
“And I will look beyond the insulting nature of that question and make clear to you that the president of the United States…”
Knowing he was losing the debate, Nehls could only interrupt Buttigieg and repeat his question:
“Have you spoken to any cabinet members about implementing the 25th Amendment on President Biden?”
Buttigieg told Nehls:
“Of course not.
The president of the United States is as vigorous a colleague or boss as I “have ever had the pleasure of working with.”
Nehls is doing a piss poor job of trying to obfuscate and make everyone forget the insane things failed, one-term former president Donald Trump did that almost led to his cabinet using the 25th to boot him from office, as Yahoo News reported last month:
“Former President Donald Trump’s staff warned him that his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, could amount to criminal behavior. They unsuccessfully pleaded with him to call off rioters ransacking the Capitol who were threatening former Vice President Mike Pence. And after the riot had been put down and one of the most chaotic days in U.S. history was over, a former aide testified Tuesday, they told him his cabinet members were discussing invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
“Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows and a veritable fly on the wall throughout the events and meetings that led to the insurrection at the Capitol, testified at length Tuesday that Trump was often irate and lashed out at staff as he attempted to hold on to power after he lost the 2020 election. His behavior, she said, had led Cabinet members to consider a remedy allowed by the U.S. Constitution.”
Twitter loved Buttigieg’s verbal evisceration of the Texas congressman:
