Originally published at: Gaetz Says He’ll No Longer Voluntarily Cooperate With ‘Uncomfortably Nosey’ Ethics Panel - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is DONE answering the House Ethics Committee’s questions about his alleged sex life and his alleged drug use, at least voluntarily. In a letter that the congressman posted on Twitter, Gaetz accused the panel of engaging in a “political payback exercise” (perhaps residual Kevin McCarthy paranoia) and being “uncomfortably nosey,” as…
Gaetz, like many of his ilk, is a self-righteous, entitled asshole. They all hang out with one another in body and in mind.
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Gaetz said the Ethics panel had asked him earlier this month whether he had “engaged in sexual activity with any individual under 18.”
“The answer to this question is unequivocally NO,” he wrote.
So, not even when Gaetz, himself, was under 18?
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It looks like the only way they’ll get this asshole is if one of the girls testifies, So far, one has refused. I wouldn’t blame any of the others for not coming forward. Teenage girls don’t need that kind of problem, especially those who’ve chosen to party with him for money.
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It’s also very Republican as years of Jordan/Comer hearings have amply demonstrated so, as the saying goes, get over it.
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I wonder how many of them chose not to testify against him “for money.”
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“I am being investigated and judged by my political opponents. This is Soviet,” he declared…
… before resuming his investigations into his own political opponents.
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oh good… further evidence that ‘Law and Order’ Party clearly believes the rules don’t apply to them… won’t honor subpoenas… won’t co-operate with House Ethics panel… probably will try to weasel on election certification if they retain the House 
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Gaetz is the typical young MAGott. A grifter and a pervert. He’d fuck a snake while waiting for Vance to get off the sofa.
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He’s feeling the Hunter burn and can’t stand the heat.
If only someone on the Judiciary Committee could quench the flames! But hell no. Jordan and the rest are ready to BBQ him, too. What have they got to lose?
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The only surprise was the Gaetz was cooperating at all in the first place.
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Trumpland is lousy with rapists, and worse.
It comes from the top, of course.
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Good ol’ Matt “punchable Face” Gaetz.
It’s telling that this is the most important thing for him to address when his state is being hit by a Cat 4 .
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So, this is what Gaetz is working on while a Cat 4 hurricane is bearing down on his district - writing a defense against allegedly having sex with minors and posting it on Twitter?
I’m sure his constituents will be pleased to know that Gaetz is priortizing what’s really important, his own hide, while their homes are in danger.
Looks like left_in_washington_state got there right before me. C’est la vie.
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I haven’t even read this story about Gaetz yet but was shocked to read just now, Josh Marshall’s post, " Adams Indicted; Gotham Yawns." I was amazed to read this: "
"Back in December 2021 I wrote on Twitter that ‘I think there’s a lot about Adams that is really what the city needs. Most of the things. But also concerned that he’ll get indicted for something.’ A month later I explained the basis of my largely misguided bullishness on Adams. ‘For clarity, I’m not cheering anything from the last three days. I think a mayor rooted in the politics of the city’s black middle class (which is Adams’ base) is better for the city today than rooted in the politics of liberals in Manhattan and Brooklyn.’
“This general point I still believe.”
I dunno. I don’t think Gotham is yawning or has been yawning. Certainly not the Gothamites I know. Was Josh so absorbed in a certain Manhattan point of view that he brushed off what those “liberals,” esp. the ones in Brooklyn, had to say about Adams at the time he was running for mayor?
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Does Project 2025 allow him to not appear before the Ethics panel?
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Gaetz was “cooperating”?
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Matt Gaetz is Butthead
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Aye, there’s the rub.
He’s a typical former Young Republican/Hitler Youth who didn’t get any in Hi School coz he’s way to creepy.
And we all have to pay for the good sense of the girls that rejected him.
Oh well, good on them! A price I’ll gladly pay.
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