2023 Republican House Follies

[Carpet_pissr]

Did the resident nutjobs blame the eclipse on Biden? Or the Jews? Or both?

bridges falling down on their own thanks to union labour illegal immigrants (yes, they were blamed),

FTFY

[waitingtoconnect]

One, if one was insane or politically motivated, might argue that illegal immigrants and union labor are one and the same. Just ask your nearest Republican member of congress.

[Smoove_B]

I wonder who is telling him not to pass the aid package? Did he meet with anyone recently?

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Sunday did not indicate that he would put the Senate-passed supplemental package on foreign aid on the floor this week, despite mounting pressure from Democrats and some GOP lawmakers to do so after Iran’s retaliatory strike against Israel.

During an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Johnson noted that House members were pulling together details for a new package.

“We’re going to try again this week, and the details of that package are being put together right now,” he said. “We’re looking at the options and all these supplemental issues.”

Absolutely insane what is happening right now. Insane.

[waitingtoconnect]

Jd Vance saying we should only support Israel and stop support to Ukraine.

[Kraken]

Putin has a heavy thumb on the GOP's president-in-exile because TFG wants to be him. I don't buy the blackmail angle because trump has no shame about anything.

[Unagi]

Putin has a heavy thumb on the GOP's president-in-exile because TFG wants to be him. I don't buy the blackmail angle because trump has no shame about anything.

He does seem to harbor some shame around exposing his true finances.

[waitingtoconnect]

Putin has a heavy thumb on the GOP's president-in-exile because TFG wants to be him. I don't buy the blackmail angle because trump has no shame about anything.

I think to Putins delight there is no need for blackmail. There is an alliance of super rich fascists who are trading notes on how to take over their respective countries from India to Hungary to the UK to France to us.

Don’t forget who doubled their wealth in the trump years and since the billionaires. That’s who the GoP are ruling for. As my dad used to say trickle down economics will only last until they find all the leaks.

I say it’s more like gush up economics now.

[Kraken]

Putin has a heavy thumb on the GOP's president-in-exile because TFG wants to be him. I don't buy the blackmail angle because trump has no shame about anything.

I think to Putins delight there is no need for blackmail. There is an alliance of super rich fascists who are trading notes on how to take over their respective countries from India to Hungary to the UK to France to us.

Don’t forget who doubled their wealth in the trump years and since the billionaires. That’s who the GoP are ruling for. As my dad used to say trickle down economics will only last until they find all the leaks.

I say it’s more like gush up economics now.

They are mobilizing specifically because Bidenomics has overturned 40 years of supply side econ. It's the most important achievement of his presidency, so of course it must be snuffed out. The benefits from investing in the middle and lower classes are just starting to bloom. If he gets 4 more years it will be too entrenched to easily reverse.

[Alefroth]

I say it’s more like gush up economics now.

Why do you say that?

[Pyperkub]

I say it’s more like gush up economics now.

Why do you say that?

GOP being a wholly owned subsidiary of the 1% maybe?

[Zarathud]

Part of the Trump Tax Cuts phase out in 2026 because they were too expensive even for Republicans. There's a reason Trump was reminding donors about those "wonderful tax cuts" during his administration. In addition to pitching evangelical culture warriors, Trump retains Republican support only because he's promising to dismantle the U.S. government bureaucracy and deliver tax cuts to get elected.

[Alefroth]

I say it’s more like gush up economics now.

Why do you say that?

GOP being a wholly owned subsidiary of the 1% maybe?

Ah, I see now. Wealth extraction.

[waitingtoconnect]

I say it’s more like gush up economics now.

Why do you say that?

From 2001 to 2016, middle-class families saw their median net worth shrink by 20 percent and working-class families lost 45 percent. Even after multiple economic expansions, the total net worth of the bottom 50 percent of Americans is 20 percent less than it was in 1990.

[LordMortis]

Magic the Gathering and Pedo Geatz look more and more like Florida Russian assets.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... publicans/

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has been threatening to introduce a measure intended to oust Johnson from the speakership — known as a motion to vacate — if he puts Ukraine aid on the floor.

Greene labeled Johnson’s plan a “scam” and is “firmly” against it, but hasn’t said yet whether she will move to try to depose him.

“I support the majority and I want it next time. So I’m being careful,” she said. “He’s definitely not going to be Speaker next Congress if we’re lucky enough to have the majority.”

No puppet. You're the puppet.

[Dogstar]

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[waitingtoconnect]

I can hear trump now. “The rinos and far left democrats led by the criminal Joe Biden have destroyed our great house. A great house that was only last filled with patriots on January 6. Patriots who have since become political prisoners. Very sad. Buy my new bible and pray for our country people… “

I wonder if they’ll elect trump speaker to try and get him out of his court cases.

[Pyperkub]

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Sure, along with his (and "X" other Republicans) votes for Hakeem Jeffries?

[Grifman]

https://twitter.com/jaredemoskowitz/sta ... NcXCfN8s1g

[Unagi]

I also see the words "space laser technology" in that view of her amendment.


I have to wonder if MTG goes home and just laughs about everything she does and how stupid her voters are, or if she goes home and seriously stews over her own fears of space lasers.


After writing that sentence, I have to admit to myself that I probably don't take space laser technology seriously enough.

[LordMortis]

Did Jewish Space Lasers help mitigate against the attack from Iran?

[hepcat]

Don't laugh. MTG was on to something.

[Smoove_B]

Silent and deadly:

Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus are signing up to take shifts to monitor the chamber floor in order to prevent their own party leaders from making unilateral moves that could curb their power.

The Freedom Caucus’ Floor Action Response Team, shorthanded as “FART,” aims to guard against an unannounced request to pass resolutions that would stealthily limit their leverage against leadership, according to two Republicans with direct knowledge, who were granted anonymity to speak candidly.

While one of the Republicans said the group largely doesn’t expect major developments, members also don’t want to be caught flat-footed if a GOP colleague tried to seek unanimous consent or a voice vote for a resolution that would change the House’s structure. Two potential examples of threats the Freedom Caucus perceives: the removal of its members from the Rules Committee or changes to agreements made at the beginning of this Congress with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

[Smoove_B]

Failed:

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and his allies beat back a dramatic effort by far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to oust him from power Wednesday, ending — for now — months of threats against his speakership.

The vote to "table" or kill Greene's motion to vacate the speaker's chair was 359-43. Just 10 Republicans voted with Greene, R-Ga.; seven Democrats voted present.

There were 196 Republicans and 163 Democrats who voted to kill Greene's motion; along with the 11 Republicans, 32 Democrats voted to move forward with her motion.

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The 10 Republicans who voted with Greene against tabling the motion were Warren Davidson of Ohio, Alex Mooney of West Virginia, Barry Moore of Alabama, Victoria Spartz of Indiana, Chip Roy of Texas, Eric Burlison of Missouri and Paul Gosar, Eli Crane and Andy Biggs, all of Arizona.

However, it isn’t clear all of them would have voted on a resolution to oust Johnson had the motion to table failed; Roy said he was undecided.

[hepcat]

Wow, let’s hope this a sign that republicans are even getting vocal about what a jackass MTG is.

[Victoria Raverna]

Can Mike Johnson kick and remove MTG as a payback?

[Jaymann]

[LordMortis]

So a bunch of democrats are voting with MtG and Geatz and company to protest Johnson? Who knew MtG and their brand of crazy were such traitors to the GOP?

[Carpet_pissr]

Wow, let’s hope this a sign that republicans are even getting vocal about what a jackass MTG is.

You have no idea how much it made my morning reading this. I need to find a video. She was HISSED at! LOL

WaPo:

“They heckled her and shouted boos as she rose to speak, and some hissed at her — and those were the voices from the same side of the aisle as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).”

[Alefroth]

Uniparty!

[Victoria Raverna]

2024 version of McCarthy hearing? GOP use antisemitism accusation as a weapon to attack education:

[Smoove_B]

Not really sure these are "follies" as much as they are terrifying:

https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/1798387936851095947

NEWS -- @SpeakerJohnson has named Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) to the House Intelligence Committee.

The Intel Committee oversees the entire intelligence community and gets some of the most sensitive intelligence about the U.S. and its allies.

Why is that terrifying (Wiki)?

Perry participated in attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. Perry attempted to replace Pennsylvania's electors. The House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack called for an interview with Perry, the first time it publicly sought to question a sitting member of Congress. Perry declined the request the next day. The panel's chairperson said it had evidence from several witnesses that Perry had "an important role" in efforts to install Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general as part of attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.

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In August 2022, Perry reported that three FBI agents had seized his cellphone after presenting him with a warrant. He called the seizure an "unnecessary and aggressive action". Perry asked Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court Beryl Howell to prevent investigators from accessing 2,219 documents stored on his phone, citing the Speech or Debate Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

And:

Jackson attended the January 6 "Stop the Steal" rally at the White House Ellipse. During the January 6 attack on the Capitol, he was inside the Capitol when members of the Oath Keepers militia allegedly exchanged text messages about protecting Jackson because he had supposedly had "critical data". Oathkeeper leader Stewart Rhodes replied, writing: "Give him my cell". Rhodes was later charged with seditious conspiracy, convicted, and sentenced to 18 years in federal prison. Later on January 6, 2021, during the certification of the 2020 election, Jackson objected to certifying Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electoral votes.

On May 19, 2021, Jackson voted against legislation to establish the formation of a January 6 commission meant to investigate the storming of the U.S. Capitol. On May 2, 2022, the January 6 committee released a letter to Jackson requesting he meet with the committee; in response, Jackson released a statement calling the committee "illegitimate".

Seems like just the pair that should be receiving privileged sensitive intelligence from the FBI - especially as we head into the November election.

[hepcat]

Oh goody, the guy who chugs down vodka with an ambien chaser while on the job now has access to classified documents.

Does this mean Biden Hunter will be the Republican nominee for the Committee on Ethics?

[Smoove_B]

Yeah, I was going to joke that maybe they wanted Demoted Dr. Feelgood for their late-night meetings, but this feels much worse.

[hepcat]

It's like giving Dean Martin the nuclear codes.

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.....shit....now I wish Dean Martin were alive and running for president.

[Isgrimnur]

House votes to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for withholding Biden audio

The 216-207 vote fell along party lines, with Republicans coalescing behind the contempt effort despite reservations among some of the party’s more centrist members. Only one Republican — Rep. David Joyce of Ohio — voted against it.

Garland said in a statement late Wednesday, “It is deeply disappointing that this House of Representatives has turned a serious congressional authority into a partisan weapon. Today’s vote disregards the constitutional separation of powers, the Justice Department’s need to protect its investigations, and the substantial amount of information we have provided to the Committees.”

He added, “I will always stand up for this Department, its employees, and its vital mission to defend our democracy.”

Garland is now the third attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress. Yet it is unlikely that the Justice Department — which Garland oversees — will prosecute him. The White House’s decision to exert executive privilege over the audio recording, shielding it from Congress, would make it exceedingly difficult to make a criminal case against Garland.
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Before Garland, the last attorney general held in contempt was Bill Barr in 2019. That was when the Democratically controlled House voted to issue a referral against Barr after he refused to turn over documents related to a special counsel investigation into Trump.

Years before that, then-Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt related to the gun-running operation known as Operation Fast and Furious. In each of those instances, the Justice Department took no action against the attorney general.

[Daehawk]

The GOP is nothing but a hate spewing needy POS. People get tired of hate and anger after a while and want peace and order back.