Silence befell the contentious House Judiciary Committee impeachment article mark-up Thursday when Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA ) subtly called out Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for hypocrisy, after Gaetz went on an extended rant about Hunter Biden’s drug problem. But the silence soon gave way to laughter.
Apophasis! Har, Har, Har!
Johnson offered that, “I would say that the pot calling the kettle black is not something that we should do.”
“I don’t know what members, if any, have had any problems with substance abuse, been busted in DUI, I don’t know, but if I did I wouldn’t raise it against anyone on this committee,” Johnson said.
Hmmm…maybe Gaetz was impaired while driving, or maybe he’s just…impaired.
Let he who is without DUI cast the first milkshake.
JohnSon says caLLing kettle Black! Plays thE race caRd as GAetz caLLs into question Biden’s pArenting OF druGGie son wHo goT him a Job aT Burisma.
The hypocrisy party writ large.
Wow - just wow. And the fact that Rep. DUI is the one to try something like this is just…wow.
More ad hominem attacks from Matt Gaetz, the congressman making himself famous for being a dick.
If I was a Congressman I would forget the rules of the house even at the risk of expulsion and project the famous mugshot of him at the time of the Gaetz arrest.
Time to dig out the “Trump at Studio 54” photos. If personal excess is a justification for investigations, we’re going to need a whole bus load of impeachment special prosecutors.
“I don’t know what members, if any, have had any problems with substance abuse, been busted in DUI, I don’t know, but if I did I wouldn’t raise it against anyone on this committee,” Johnson said.
Sorry, but I laughed my ass off at this.
(Not sorry)
Mike Bloomfield’s Junko Partner.
Gaetz has a substance abuse problem? That explains a lot.
What I thought I heard Mr. Johnson say when I first listened to the clip:
“Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the Representative from Florida.”
For a second there, I was expecting unanimous consent.
As far as authoritarians are concerned, the higher up your are, the less the rules applies to you. Gaetz loves to think he is one of the GOP’s top men.
Good for Johnson, and I want to add I’ve found him impressive throughout. ETA: His soft spoken manner, belying how lethal his words actually are, also recalls Julian Bond to me, a long time hero of mine.
You can’t be a republican and not think you have a dispensation to be decent.
That never stopped the perverted, lying, cheating, multi-assaulter, reprobate, Trump, from accusing political enemies of that which, he himself, is guilty of. Several respondents to his tweet about Greta accused him and the GOP of hypocrisy after the apeshit fauxtrage response to an academic’s merely mentioning Barron’s name. The MAGAt’s response was basically, “well, it’s different.”
Always different rules for Democrats.
He’s certainly truth-impaired.
The problem with calling Gaetz or any Republican a hypocrite is that the charge only has a bite if they ultimately grant that the same standards apply to them as to others. But they don’t accept that. Never mind that the concept that you can’t single yourself out in this way is the basis of morality (see Kant, Immanuel). They’ll just say—or think—“So I’m immoral, so what?”
The bottom line is that you can’t reason or shame bad people out of their badness. If there was ever any doubt about that principle, the Republicans remind us every day of its truth.