There’s some fight in the old GOP yet
Kevin McCarthy shows some of it:
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News that as speaker of the House he would strip Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) of their assignments on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of her committee assignment on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
McCarthy also said Swalwell would not be allowed to serve on the Homeland Security Committee either…
“The Democrats have created a new thing where they’re picking and choosing who can be on committees,” McCarthy said. “Never in the history [of Congress] have you had the majority tell the minority who can be on committee. But this new standard which these Democrats have voted for—if Eric Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the private sector, there is no reason why he should be given one to be on Intel or Homeland Security. He will not be serving there.”
…McCarthy also said he will remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
…In addition, he said he will pull Schiff—the current HPSCI chairman—off the Intelligence Committee.
“You look at Adam Schiff—he should not be serving on Intel when he has openly, knowingly now used a fake dossier, lied to the American public in the process and doesn’t have any ill will [and] says he wants to continue to do it,” McCarthy said.
Much more at the link.
To actually accomplish this, Republicans first would have to take over the House, and then McCarthy actually has to follow through. Will he? Your guess is as good as mine.
[NOTE: The title of this post is a riff on this number:
That’s Tammy Grimes, in one of those musicals – albeit an obscure one – that I memorized in my extreme youth. I had seen it on “The Play of the Week.” Going to that link just now I see that it aired in May of 1960. It wasn’t easy to find that record back then, but somehow I (or my parents) did, although I can’t remember how.]
Believe it when I see it.
Meanwhile, Ted Cruz, having had the courage to enter the lion’s den to answer for his foolish comments to Tucker (who queried him about Ray Epps), relentlessly grilled, on Capitol Hill today, the FBI’s worthless Jill Sanborn, who, by failing to answer any of his questions, proved that the actions of the corrupt bureau on J6, at best, were corrupt and, at worst (a far likelier explanation), were instrumental in fomenting a “faux-insurrection” (i.e. a “Fedsurrection”) in order to discredit and to delegitimize not only Trump but every American who rationally questions the election of 2020 and who reasonably refuses to accept an administration fraudulently installed through a shamelessly-rigged (and probably stolen) process which was neither free nor fair.
Talks cheap, action counts. A mentioned above I will believe it when I see it.
j e, Cruz did go after the FBI. Not sure that it did any good though. Unfortunately. Did the FBI have agents and others there causing “problems”.
Yes, next question.
Cruz’s cross examination equates to, the witness’s refusal to answer reveals her organization’s guilt but at this point, what does it matter?
That neo has no confidence in McCarthy’s willingness to follow through with his threat, reveals that in her heart of hearts she knows she cannot rely upon the GOP to fight with their utmost for liberty. They ‘fight’ as the wind blows. Though members in good standing with the GOP can be relied upon to resist… when the GOP’s political turf is threatened.
I’d like to see it. Since McCarthy has openly promised this, perhaps he will have to deliver.
Yep, talk is cheap. Let’s see if he follows through in a year, if they take the House (which is likely, but not certain).
Swalwell and Schiff are both particularly loathsome, so I think McCarthy might follow through on his threat. Also, they’re white males, so the blowback will be less intense. But Omar? No way. As an intersectional princess, she is pretty much untouchable.
Toujours gai, Archie.
Channing played a cat in the animated film Shinbone Alley. Same story?
@Kate:Since McCarthy has openly promised this, perhaps he will have to deliver.
He’s not “accountable” to anyone but the voters in his district, California’s 22. If they don’t gerrymander or ballot-harvest him away.
But he came under Boehner and Ryan, and he was one of those who blamed Trump for Jan 6. I’m thinking he’s one of the lizard people and the other lizards will make sure he is never held accountable.
Do actions speak louder than words? You might find this amusing: The year in Congressional Stock Trading.
https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/full
I have just released the full trading report on politicians in 2021.
In short, many beat the market.
They traded more than ever before.
And they made numerous unusually timed trades, resulting in huge gains.
Nothing quite like having a front-row seat to forward policy-making and budgetary decisions……..
Rep voters love tough talk – and mostly like tough, fair actions.
Sad thing is that leaders of the GOP are, inevitably, going to be elites or on the path towards elitism. Their personal career ambition is almost always to be part of the elite.
So it’s not too likely that they’ll be strongly anti-elite in actions, even if tough words are what gets them elected.
That album cover says music by George Kleinsinger but E.B. White provided the notes. So I guess Kleinsinger just did the keys and chords?
But he came under Boehner and Ryan, and he was one of those who blamed Trump for Jan 6. I’m thinking he’s one of the lizard people and the other lizards will make sure he is never held accountable.
In some respects worse. Boehner’s an obnoxious old lush, but he also spent 14 years of his life running a small business (still in existence last I checked), a most unusual credential among the congressional leadership stratum. Ryan was in essence a man who wrote position papers for a living for one of the ancestors of FreedomWorks ‘ere running for Congress at age 28. However he has other skills (he could work as a fitness instructor), has contemplated first principles, and is a satisfactory wonk; trouble is he has no leadership qualities. McCarthy has worked for legislative bodies his whole bloody adult life, and our single best guess is that he’s so vacuous he’s Frank Luntz’ bitch.
I’ll pay you ten bucks to never have Gilbert Gottfried screech the part of Archy!
So, apparently, in the spirit of ancient musical, McCarthy has a little list:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5LHjAryJLU
From J. J. Sefton at Ace of Spades today:
To all of this brave, uplifting, fightin’ mad Mr. Smith Goes to Washington rhetorical fireworks, I say thank you — and f–k you. When the chips were down last year, you sat on your hands, abrogated your oath to the Constitution and sold America down the river for good by not protesting a stolen election. That was on top of doing everything you could to stonewall and sabotage President Trump’s legislative agenda when in his first two years the GOP held both chambers of Congress and had an absolute mandate to reverse not just the Obama destruction, but most of everything going back to the New Deal. The possible exception to that, of course, being the “entitlements.” Even before that, for years and years it was “Build the dang fence!” before an election and then deriding us as “hobbits” for complaining about embracing amnesty afterwards. “We’re only one half of one third of three fifths of 99 44/100ths% Congress!” Dozens of single-sentence Obamacare repeals knowing full well the dog-eating bastard would veto it but stonewalling and ultimately a thumbs down when Trump pushed for it.