Discussion: Report: Chaffetz To Step Down Next Month

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When the going gets tough, the mealy-mouthed get going–off to a well paid gig with no heavy lifting.

So much for ā€œpublic service.ā€

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Step down from what? What does he think he does?

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Still slimy as he bails out for wing-nut welfare.

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I don’t think he wants to touch this with a 10 foot pole. He must know how bad this is going to get and hitting the eject button before it is too late.

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What?

He’s leaving before the festivities for which he was the energizer bunny reach their grand finale?

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House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) is expected to announce that he plans to resign from Congress on June 30,

Chaffetz told colleagues he planned to take an on-air role at Fox News as early as July.

was trying to get Comey to testify, but apparently could not reach the former FBI director.

Already creating the news he’ll bleat on about at FOX. Why pretend? Really, why pretend you’re anything besides a money-grubbing piece of shit. Oh, I suppose you aren’t pretending.

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It would be such a shame if Chaffetz’s new gig was promised to him by Ailes and the paperwork is still in process.

Guess this job got a lot less fun without a Dem in the WH…

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Good to know the Republican ā€œfail upwardsā€ machine is still in place.

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What would you say you do here?

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One dead, one retiring. Good day so far. Though I’m not yet tired of winning. Looking forward to getting to jaded - and new problems, ā€˜champagne’ problems. It’s been a while.

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Life is so much easier from the cheap seats than being on the field.

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Awesome! We’ll get to replace him, and the people of Utah will finally, at last, get a conservative Republican in Congress!

Alas, I have to sit this one out, as I’m represented by the less-well-known but equally reprehensible Chris Stewart. He’s the guy who compared the current so-called President to Mussolini, but voted for him anyway, along with every piece of legislation he’s put forth to date.

With Stewart and Chaffetz and I-Wish-We-Could-Mine-Everywhere Rob Bishop, and token Mia Love, and Senator-for-Life Orrin Hatch and Stiff-the-Mortgage-Company-But-Complain-About-Leeches Mike Lee, we’ve got nothing but winning here in Utah.

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OT—I’m not reading all the TPM stuff this am, so I might have missed it.

Mueller may have a conflict of interest.

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So… we will have a special election. And UT-CD3 2016 Presidential election results…

Hillary: 23.27%
Peehead: 47.18%
McMullin: 24.47%

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I wonder how long it took for Fox to realize that he had been auditioning for them for ~years~.

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When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled…

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This will create a small void where a giant void once existed.

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To be fair, you can’t really call what he’s been doing a public service.

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