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Post by onelasttime on Nov 17, 2022 22:06:22 GMT
I have to say these guys didn’t waste any time making themselves look vindictive as well as ridiculous.
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Post by onelasttime on Nov 17, 2022 22:09:03 GMT
This really rich from someone spouting crap all the time and offering no proof of what she is claiming asking someone for proof.
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Post by leftturnonly on Nov 18, 2022 6:20:01 GMT
Along with investigating the Bidens, I hope the Republicans immediately begin investigating all the money the now-bankrupt-by-BILLIONS-of-dollars FTX poured into Democrat campaigns.
And on the first day of the new congress, I want them to begin to reinstate the Keystone Pipe Line.
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Post by mollycoddle on Nov 18, 2022 10:58:56 GMT
Along with investigating the Bidens, I hope the Republicans immediately begin investigating all the money the now-bankrupt-by-BILLIONS-of-dollars FTX poured into Democrat campaigns. And on the first day of the new congress, I want them to begin to reinstate the Keystone Pipe Line. Well I for one am happy and relieved that House Republicans are rolling up their sleeves and preparing to get to work to solve problems for the American people. I am confident that they will come up with a sound plan to battle crime and inflation. I remember all of those ads they made decrying crime and inflation, and it is such a relief that they are focused on what’s really important./s.  ETA: And in anticipation of these riveting hearings, I think that I will see if I can find the video of the House Benghazi hearings. ☺️🥴 👀 |
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Post by twinks on Nov 18, 2022 11:31:21 GMT
I wonder why we didn’t investigate the former’s kids for the millions they made actually working in the White House and using their father’s name to make billions in a deal with the Saudis. Oh yes, I forget, the Democratic House was focused on the American people and fixing America.
Let’s focus on Hunter Biden’s laptop and not the crimes of former and his family. Let’s try to divert from what is really going on. Great idea! NOT!!!
The problem with what they are doing, even when they find out there is nothing to Hunter Biden and the laptop, we will never hear the end of it. Look at Hilary. Oh and I bet no one in the Biden family will pad the Supreme Court, refuse to testify, sue the Government or stage an insurrection.
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Post by compeateropeator on Nov 18, 2022 11:32:02 GMT
Along with investigating the Bidens, I hope the Republicans immediately begin investigating all the money the now-bankrupt-by-BILLIONS-of-dollars FTX poured into Democrat campaigns. And on the first day of the new congress, I want them to begin to reinstate the Keystone Pipe Line. I have no problems with continued ongoing investigations or valid investigations of corporations or people. But revenge and it being the main concern from the party that is complaining about so many issues seems counterproductive. You would think this would be the time that the Republicans would be yelling from the roofs/rooves their plans on how to fix all this stuff they think is wrong and so easy to fix. 🤷🏻♀️ So after years of reading about the keystone xl pipeline (as the 1st one is completed and operational and Canadian), I am curious why you think this is in the best interest of the US instead of using any excess refinery capacity on crude from companies that are not using existing leases and such for actual product that will be for the US? Maybe I don’t understand it? I would appreciate hearing your thoughts on why this is how you think we would lower gas prices? Truly…not being snarky. just as a side this are some facts I have read about the keystone XL…do you not think these are true?: The Keystone XL pipeline extension, proposed by TC Energy (then TransCanada) in 2008, was initially designed to transport the planet’s dirtiest fossil fuel, tar sands oil, to market—and fast. As an expansion of the company’s existing Keystone Pipeline System, which has been operating since 2010 (and continues to send Canadian tar sands crude oil from Alberta to various processing hubs in the middle of the United States), the pipeline promised to dramatically increase capacity to process the 168 billion barrels of crude oil locked up under Canada’s boreal forest. It was expected to transport 830,000 barrels of Alberta tar sands oil per day to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas. From the refineries, the oil would be sent chiefly overseas—not to gasoline pumps in the United States.The proposed Keystone XL extension actually comprised two segments. The first, a southern leg, had already been completed and now runs between Cushing, Oklahoma, and Port Arthur, Texas. Opponents of this project—now called the Gulf Coast Pipeline—say that TC Energy took advantage of legal loopholes to push the pipeline through, obtaining authorization under a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers nationwide permit and dodging the more rigorous vetting process for individual permits, which requires public input. The second segment was the hotly contested 1,209-mile northern leg—a shortcut of sorts—that would have run from Hardisty, Alberta, through Montana and South Dakota to Steele City, Nebraska.Dirty energy lobbyists claimed developing tar sands would protect our national energy security and bring U.S. fuel prices down. But environmental reviews by both the Obama and Trump administrations concluded that the Keystone XL pipeline would not have lowered gasoline prices. NRDC and its partners also found the majority of Keystone XL oil would have been sent to markets overseas—aided by a 2015 reversal of a ban on crude oil exports.This lines up with an industry trend: Oil and gas companies are exporting 8.4 million barrels of crude oil and refined fuels every single day. That’s up nearly threefold from a decade ago, and an amount equal to 42 percent of our consumption. And these exports are more than 10 times the capacity of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.When TC Energy said the pipeline would create nearly 119,000 jobs, a State Department report instead concluded the project would require fewer than 2,000 two-year construction jobs and that the number of full-time, permanent jobs would hover around 35 after construction. My comment: so if it isn’t providing us jobs or gas why would this be on the top of your list? Just trying to understand this position. Thanks |
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Post by casii on Nov 18, 2022 12:05:19 GMT
Along with investigating the Bidens, I hope the Republicans immediately begin investigating all the money the now-bankrupt-by-BILLIONS-of-dollars FTX poured into Democrat campaigns. And on the first day of the new congress, I want them to begin to reinstate the Keystone Pipe Line. I have no problems with continued ongoing investigations or valid investigations of corporations or people. But revenge and it being the main concern from the party that is complaining about so many issues seems counterproductive. You would think this would be the time that the Republicans would be yelling from the roofs/rooves their plans on how to fix all this stuff they think is wrong and so easy to fix. 🤷🏻♀️ So after years of reading about the keystone xl pipeline (as the 1st one is completed and operational and Canadian). I am curious why you think this is in the best interest of the US instead of using any excess refinery capacity on crude from companies that are not using existing leases and such for actual product that will be for the US? Maybe I don’t understand it? I would appreciate hearing your thoughts on why this is how you think we would lower gas prices? Truly…not being snarky. just as a side this are some facts I have read about the keystone XL…do you not think these are true?: The Keystone XL pipeline extension, proposed by TC Energy (then TransCanada) in 2008, was initially designed to transport the planet’s dirtiest fossil fuel, tar sands oil, to market—and fast. As an expansion of the company’s existing Keystone Pipeline System, which has been operating since 2010 (and continues to send Canadian tar sands crude oil from Alberta to various processing hubs in the middle of the United States), the pipeline promised to dramatically increase capacity to process the 168 billion barrels of crude oil locked up under Canada’s boreal forest. It was expected to transport 830,000 barrels of Alberta tar sands oil per day to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas. From the refineries, the oil would be sent chiefly overseas—not to gasoline pumps in the United States.The proposed Keystone XL extension actually comprised two segments. The first, a southern leg, had already been completed and now runs between Cushing, Oklahoma, and Port Arthur, Texas. Opponents of this project—now called the Gulf Coast Pipeline—say that TC Energy took advantage of legal loopholes to push the pipeline through, obtaining authorization under a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers nationwide permit and dodging the more rigorous vetting process for individual permits, which requires public input. The second segment was the hotly contested 1,209-mile northern leg—a shortcut of sorts—that would have run from Hardisty, Alberta, through Montana and South Dakota to Steele City, Nebraska.Dirty energy lobbyists claimed developing tar sands would protect our national energy security and bring U.S. fuel prices down. But environmental reviews by both the Obama and Trump administrations concluded that the Keystone XL pipeline would not have lowered gasoline prices. NRDC and its partners also found the majority of Keystone XL oil would have been sent to markets overseas—aided by a 2015 reversal of a ban on crude oil exports.This lines up with an industry trend: Oil and gas companies are exporting 8.4 million barrels of crude oil and refined fuels every single day. That’s up nearly threefold from a decade ago, and an amount equal to 42 percent of our consumption. And these exports are more than 10 times the capacity of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.When TC Energy said the pipeline would create nearly 119,000 jobs, a State Department report instead concluded the project would require fewer than 2,000 two-year construction jobs and that the number of full-time, permanent jobs would hover around 35 after construction. My comment: so if it isn’t providing us jobs or gas why would this be on the top of your list? Just trying to understand this position. Thanks Thank you for the info. I've shared the same information to my cousins who have hollered about this for years and it's earned an extra layer of vitriol aimed my way. And they wonder why I don't go to family reunions. |
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Post by maryannscraps on Nov 18, 2022 12:08:40 GMT
Along with investigating the Bidens, I hope the Republicans immediately begin investigating all the money the now-bankrupt-by-BILLIONS-of-dollars FTX poured into Democrat campaigns. And on the first day of the new congress, I want them to begin to reinstate the Keystone Pipe Line. FTX was pouring money into Democratic and Republican coffers alike. There’s a lot to investigate about that company. The new CEO’s court filings show that the previous management team should be going to jail. |
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Post by onelasttime on Nov 18, 2022 14:09:40 GMT
I don’t see anywhere in this group of tweets where they will come up with solutions for inflation, crime , or immigration.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 18, 2022 14:35:26 GMT
Good Lord. It’s going to be a long two years. 🙄 I really hope the J6 commission can get the rest of their ducks in a row and their recommendations passed on to the the DOJ before the next Congress is seated.
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Post by onelasttime on Nov 18, 2022 15:01:46 GMT
Along with investigating the Bidens, I hope the Republicans immediately begin investigating all the money the now-bankrupt-by-BILLIONS-of-dollars FTX poured into Democrat campaigns. And on the first day of the new congress, I want them to begin to reinstate the Keystone Pipe Line. You seem rather fixated on the Keystone Pipe Line. What specifically do YOU expect it to do? And you do understand the House can’t just decide on its own to reinstate the permits for the pipeline. Right? |
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Post by onelasttime on Nov 18, 2022 15:04:09 GMT
Well duh! In case one hasn’t notice one cones out of MTG’s mouth every time she opens it.
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Post by onelasttime on Nov 18, 2022 15:07:50 GMT
Note: The key phrase is Since COVID.
I wonder how the Republicans are going to spin this.
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Post by refugeepea on Nov 18, 2022 15:14:21 GMT
Along with investigating the Bidens, I hope the Republicans immediately begin investigating all the money the now-bankrupt-by-BILLIONS-of-dollars FTX poured into Democrat campaigns. And on the first day of the new congress, I want them to begin to reinstate the Keystone Pipe Line. |
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Post by onelasttime on Nov 18, 2022 15:15:34 GMT
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Post by refugeepea on Nov 18, 2022 15:16:25 GMT
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Post by femalebusiness on Nov 18, 2022 16:17:13 GMT
Along with investigating the Bidens, I hope the Republicans immediately begin investigating all the money the now-bankrupt-by-BILLIONS-of-dollars FTX poured into Democrat campaigns. And on the first day of the new congress, I want them to begin to reinstate the Keystone Pipe Line. You seem rather fixated on the Keystone Pipe Line. What specifically do YOU expect it to do? And you do understand the House can’t just decide on its own to reinstate the permits for the pipeline. Right? 😂😂Like she will ever answer any questions about her stance on things. She is not bright enough to do that. She only parrots what FOX news spews. In addition I am beginning to think that she is Gia/the cow/the yellow chicken and those were her alters. The hit and run with nothing to back up what she is saying is soooo familiar. |
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Post by onelasttime on Nov 18, 2022 20:51:38 GMT
They know they have no business investigating a private citizen.
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Post by onelasttime on Nov 19, 2022 4:46:11 GMT
I don’t know why some are surprised by the subject of their first news conference.
They have been up front that they have no interest in governing. This next two years is going to be about revenge against their perceived enemies.
Silly people if you were expecting something different.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 19, 2022 6:50:50 GMT
Oh, but they'll try to find a way to cut the big shots taxes again...
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Post by mollycoddle on Nov 19, 2022 8:44:15 GMT
I don’t think that this clown show is going to work quite the way that House Republicans think it will; especially if they spend all of their time on hearings and don’t accomplish anything. They have a small majority and more than a few crazies (MTG, Gosar, Gaetz, Boebert, to name a few) who are more interested in getting noticed than on working. Will McCarthy be able to hold this Klown Kar together? It remains to be seen.
I hope that voters will notice their thin work ethic, and I suspect that they will.
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Post by onelasttime on Nov 19, 2022 19:15:08 GMT
Josh Hawley aka “The Runner” wrote an opinion piece about how he thinks the Republican Party should change.
There are complex issues facing this country and his simplistic approach is clear that he doesn’t understand or is ignoring the real problems facing this country. So rebuilding the GOP as he has outlined is not going to make this a better country nor is it going to help those he claims the GOP must listen to.
“Opinion The GOP is dead. A new GOP must listen to working people.”
By Josh Hawley
November 18, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EST
Josh Hawley, a Republican, represents Missouri in the U.S. Senate.
“The old Republican Party is dead. It has been wasting away for years now, and this month’s midterm results are the finishing blow. If Republicans learn nothing else from this election, they must learn that much.
As frustrating as the election outcomes are, the death of the old GOP is no reason to mourn. It just means that it’s time for Republicans to forge something new — a party that truly represents the cultural backbone of this nation: America’s working people.
Many Republicans are primed to learn all the wrong lessons from this cycle. Over the past week, we’ve heard this election is about nothing more than “candidate quality” or turnout operations.
Wrong. The problem isn’t principally the tactics; the problem is the substance.
For the past two years, the Republican establishment in Washington has capitulated on issue after issue, caving to Democrats on the Second Amendment and on the left’s radical climate agenda (“infrastructure”). These Republican politicians sided with Big Pharma on insulin and advocated lowering tariffs on our competitors overseas.
Then they wonder why working-class independents have little enthusiasm about voting Republican.
For decades, Republican politicians have sung a familiar tune. On economics, they have cut taxes on the big corporations and talked about changing Social Security and Medicare — George W. Bush even tried to partially privatize Social Security back in 2005. In the name of “growth,” these same Republicans have supported ruinous trade policies — such as admitting China to the World Trade Organization — that have collapsed American industry and driven down American wages.
This tax-and-trade agenda has hollowed out too many American towns by shipping jobs overseas. It has made it almost impossible to raise a family on one income and to find a good-paying job that doesn’t require a college degree. Our trade deficit with China has cost this country 3.7 million good jobs, while a crisis of drug overdose deaths — particularly among working Americans — has ravaged many of the same communities that have suffered most from deindustrialization. It has all made it harder to stay rooted in your hometown or region. That’s not a record of success.
Republican politicians have frequently advocated higher immigration levels and four years ago went all in for soft-on-crime “sentencing reform.” They have done nothing on Big Tech. This record doesn’t appeal to working people. Just the opposite: It repels them. If Republicans want to be a majority party, now is the time to change course.
Republicans will secure the generational victories they crave only when they come to terms with this reality: They must convince a critical mass of working-class voters that the GOP truly represents their interests and protects their culture. The red wave didn’t land in part because voters who cast a ballot for Barack Obama and later supported Donald Trump — voters who likely disapprove of Joe Biden and the Democrats’ agenda — chose to stay home.
Republicans must win these voters. We will not be a majority without them. That means waking up to what they care about. Work, family and culture are the touchstones of meaning for working people across the country. They must form the bedrock of a new party agenda.
We can start by stopping the bleeding. No more talk of grand bargains that turbocharge illegal immigration. No more liberalizing the United States’ trade agenda, making us more dependent on foreign adversaries. No more fiddling with Social Security in the guise of “entitlement reform.” All that should be clear enough.
But beyond this, it’s time for proactive policymaking. No nation ever got strong by consuming stuff other people make. We need an economy that produces critical goods here, in this country, and creates good-paying jobs for working people. That means tariffs to foster American industry, local content requirements to reshore manufacturing and taking the shackles off U.S. energy producers. That means new antitrust laws for Big Tech that will bust up monopolies such as Google and restore competition to the marketplace. And while we’re at it, we should start relocating federal agencies such as the Departments of Energy, Interior and Agriculture to middle America. It’s long past time for cosseted policymakers to confront the real-world consequences of their decisions, economic or otherwise.
We need explicit support in our tax code for marriage and family, such as a parent tax credit for working families. We should adopt new protections for parents to ensure they control their children’s education and medical care, such as a Parents’ Bill of Rights. And families can’t thrive unless they are safe. That’s why we need 100,000 new police officers on the streets, spread across every state in America.
Right now, the Republican Party stands at a crossroads. Its leaders can, of course, attempt to resurrect the dead consensus of offshoring, amnesties and “free trade.” That’s the path to further losses.
A reborn Republican Party must look very different. It must offer good jobs and good lives, not just higher stock prices for Wall Street. And it must place working Americans at its heart and take them as they are, rather than treating them as resources to be exploited or engineered away.
That’s the way to victory. That’s the way to national renewal.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 19, 2022 21:06:28 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Nov 19, 2022 21:30:30 GMT
Seems to be a true statement….
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 19, 2022 22:08:30 GMT
Rather short too!!
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Post by onelasttime on Nov 19, 2022 23:55:57 GMT
But yet that bimbo MTG who was involved in the events of January 6 will now be on committees. The damage done to our foundation on that was more damaging to this country then anything Rep Ilhan Omar may have said.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 20, 2022 0:09:09 GMT
But some of his people including MTG are saying they will not fund Ukraine and indicating support of Russia/Putin, who is more antisemitic then most, has called Ukrainians Natzi....
Too bad he has no b@lls!
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Post by onelasttime on Nov 20, 2022 15:58:16 GMT
So far McCarthy hasn’t said anything about their plans to fight inflation, crime, and securing the southern border.
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Post by onelasttime on Nov 20, 2022 16:02:10 GMT
He nailed it in his comment in the second tweet.
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Post by onelasttime on Nov 20, 2022 23:36:52 GMT
The Republicans were very clear before the election that if they got the majority they would spend the next two years getting revenge. They blamed the Democrats for high inflation, rampant crime and an open border leading up to the election. But they did not offer one solution as how to solve these issues but instead were salivating about who they were going after with their hearings.
Congress has no business investigating a private citizen, especially since he is already being investigated by the DOJ. If in the course of that investigation if they find some wrong doing by President Biden then the DOJ can turn over what they found to Congress to handle. So this investigation by Congress shouldn’t be happening.
As to the southern border, once again the Republicans refuse to look at & acknowledge the real problem in order to score cheap points any Democratic President. This is not just a United States problem but a worldwide problem.
Look around people are leaving their countries for other countries because of the affects of climate change and out of control violence in their countries. Migrants are trying to get into countries all over the world. Maybe it’s time we look at immigration as a worldwide problem and find solutions on a worldwide basis.
But the interesting one is Afghanistan. The question is why did the US trained Afghan military collapse as quickly as it did? McCarthy has said they want to do hearings about the last 90 days in Afghanistan. He is doing that so they don’t have to investigate the affects that trump’s agreement with the Taliban had on the chaos that occurred when the US was leaving. An agreement that did not include the legally elected government of Afghanistan. I wonder how much that agreement had to do with the quick collapse of not only the military but the government as well.
Opinion piece by Paul Waldman in The Washington Post….
“Opinion Welcome to the Congress of endless investigations”
By Paul Waldman
Columnist
“Now that Republicans have secured a House majority, what will they do with their power? Because Democrats control the Senate and the White House, Republicans can’t pass legislation. But there is one thing they can do: mount investigations. Loud, angry, endless investigations, filled with shocking accusations and desk-pounding outrage.
And they are ready. Every soon-to-be committee chair will get in on the action. C-SPAN may have to add a few extra channels to cover it all. Here’s what’s in the hopper:
The border. Expect hearings that solicit lurid testimony about crimes committed by immigrants, but not much actual policy discussion. Many Republicans want to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of Homeland Security, not for misdeeds but because they wish the Biden administration’s immigration policies were more like the Trump administration’s.
“Mayorkas deserves [impeachment] for sure, because we no longer have a border,” says Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — a nonsensical claim that shows you the level of sophistication they will bring to this effort. Jordan will probably chair the Judiciary Committee.
The FBI and Justice Department. In a bizarre turn, Republicans decided that the FBI — perhaps the most conservative agency in the federal government — is a hotbed of leftists and Democratic partisans. They’re planning to probe the alleged “politicization” of the Justice Department.
In addition, the New York Times reports that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and other right-wing lawmakers "extracted a promise” from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for an investigation into whether Jan. 6 defendants have been mistreated.
The IRS. Republicans were incensed that the Inflation Reduction Act included a significant funding increase for the IRS, which will allow it to shore up its aging systems and go after wealthy tax cheats. So they are planning to investigate the agency, perhaps hoping to repeat their previous success in using misleading hearings to justify gutting the IRS budget.
The covid-19 pandemic. Republicans are eager to scrutinize the origins of the coronavirus and the possibility that it escaped from a Chinese lab, which has become an obsession on the right-wing fringe. This is not because they are concerned with improving safety protocols in biomedical research facilities, which is not a particularly exciting challenge to tackle.
Their real goal seems to be to create the impression of a vast conspiracy responsible for the virus, one that would implicate Anthony Fauci, whom Republican candidates often say should be imprisoned or even executed. The Biden administration’s chief adviser on the pandemic will probably be targeted for investigations as well.
Afghanistan. This is one probe that could produce something useful. Why did U.S. military and intelligence agencies overestimate the Afghan government’s ability to sustain itself without an American presence? How could the withdrawal have been carried out more smoothly? What lessons might we learn for the future? But if Republicans explore these questions rather than use the opportunity to simply beat up on the administration, it will be a surprise.
Hunter, Hunter, Hunter. President Biden’s son Hunter will be more than a subject of inquiry. He will be the sun around which the new Republican House revolves: its fixation, its passion, its beginning and its end.
At a news conference Thursday, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who will probably lead the Oversight Committee, gave reporters a preview of what’s to come, from Hunter’s laptop to Hunter’s emails to Hunter’s prostitutes. “I don’t want this to be about the prostitute,” Comer told reporters, after bringing up the prostitute.
The real intent was perfectly encapsulated when Comer’s back-and-forth with reporters momentarily turned to the Justice Department, and Comer said with exasperation, “If we could keep it about Hunter Biden, that would be great.”
Yes, congressional oversight of the administration is a necessary part of the checks and balances built into the U.S. system. But it can be used for good or ill: discovering truths the public needs to know, or weaponizing the process for political gain.
Republicans know this well. It was McCarthy who said proudly in 2015 that the Republican Congress’s many investigations of Benghazi had proven a success because Hillary Clinton’s “numbers are dropping.”
As we begin this investigation-palooza, McCarthy and the rest of the GOP leadership will be subject to both internal and external pressure, all pushing in the same direction: away from any responsible or useful work for the public, and toward loony conspiracy theories and wild-goose chases in search of presidential misdeeds.
The pressure will come from a House GOP caucus that is even more extreme than before, and from two key outside sources: Donald Trump and the conservative media. They will demand more chaos, more fights, more invented scandals and more conflict.
The more any investigation touches Biden directly, the more exciting it will be for Republicans; it’s the involvement of the president himself that turns a mundane controversy into a top-tier scandal. They already know he is guilty of something (even if they’re not sure what); now they have to convince the public.
If at first they don’t succeed, they’ll try, try again. And again, and again. The ultimate destination may be Biden’s impeachment, but it’s the journey that matters.”
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