The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to refer former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for criminal prosecution for contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee.
It makes a person wonder if Meadows has a sense of his place in history. Does he want to be remembered as one of the people who tried to enable a US presidential coup, or as someone who, even if after the fact, helped try to make sure another attempt won’t be made.
Yay, and I hope meadowmuffins feels a bit squirmy in his shorts tonight. For the inevitable usuals who will bitch about his trial date being scheduled for sometime next summer, that’s just how it works: a criminal contempt of congress indictment (and conviction) does not force the mook to testify, it just enslammerates him for a month or two, with a fine of up to 100k. ETA: if the USDA DC secures an indictment, that indictment does not go away on Jan 3 2023 like a congressional subpoena does. Indictments are forever.
Now do Jefferpunk Clark next please, critters.
Also, who’s paying for meadowmuffins’ lawyers, led by Terwilliger?
Now the referral gets kicked over to the Department of Justice, where Attorney General Merrick Garland will decide whether to pursue the recommended charges against Meadows.
No, Garland does not make the call, though the person who does will most certainly check with Garland before making a decision whether or not to present an indictment to a grand jury. That person is USDA for DC Matthew Graves, who was finally approved by the senate on Oct 28 and sworn in on Nov 5, and in less than a week on the job had secured the indictment of Bannon for criminal contempt of congress.
ETA: Graves was in nomination limbo for about 5 months. Nothing stopping him from having “hypothetical” discussions with the AG during that period. So perhaps no check-in needed.
He will be remembered as being dumber than a stump. Dumber than a principal in an Adam Sandler movie. Dumber than a rock that was fetched from the abyss of the Marianas Trench and dumped right back overboard for being useless.
I don’t get the sense he has a sense of where he is in anything anymore. He’s flailing around, a rudderless fool who got way to close to the hot core of that which makes everything die. Die he will, but first he’s going to shit himself and puke and poke his eyes out and give tfg a few more blowjobs. I say you go boy.
So 208 pieces of shit live up to that description, and yet, they’re expected to control the House? Who in this case is worse? The 208 pieces of shit or the bigger sacks of shit who want to give them that control at the polls?
A minidrama erupted on the floor ahead of the Meadows contempt vote, when Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) accused House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) of “disparaging” Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN).
Did Hoyer claim that Banks was a member of the Jihad Squad? Or, did he merely observe that Banks doesn’t have a backpack, so “we should be OK”?
Hey, stop slandering those Marianas trench rocks! They ain’t half as bad as those TFG dummies! 
It was just performative BS to increase the time cost of doing the vote. Adding a 2-3 hours burden to every D critter’s vote is a win when you’re in the minority. I hope someone brought some christmas cheer to pass around while they were waiting, for those who partake.
Oh, and another former Pence aide has testified, and in a thorough manner.
Given that the same 208 are voting the same way, even after the information about the texts to Meadows was made available, it’s pretty clear that they’re irredeemable. Even guys like Gonzalez and the other who voted to impeach. Seems the best they can do is to retire. That makes a courageous statement, doesn’t it?
Decades from now, people will say of a phenomenally stupid person that he is “dumb as the meadows.” Few people will remember where that phrase came from.
The “Party of Trump” demands utmost loyalty to the Maximum Leader at all times. Why should we be surprised anymore? Ultimately either the “POT” or the USA will end up on the dustbin of history.
The vote was 222-208.
This answers one of my questions. Meadowmuffins got along in the House with lots of bonhomie and gladhanding, so I was wondering if he had made any firm friends across the aisle. Answer: when the chips are down, fuck no.
ETA: I forget who it’s attributed to, but: If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.
Meadows, I am sure, has no sense of history, other than regretting that the South didn’t get away with seceding and that uppity Blacks (which I’m pretty sure he doesn’t call them) got away with resisting Jim Crow. He is the kind of idiot who lives in an eternal present, permeated by nagging “I wants”–a man wholly lacking in self-awareness. Oh yes, I’m sure that he things that Jesus has saved him.
Eh, they’re voting their re-election prospects. Can’t blame them for doing what they need to save their phoney-baloney jobs.
Beyond the pile?
What a dink-a-link!
And some of them, heck, most of them are pretty deep.