Lauren Boebert told him more Democratic representatives than GOP representatives are up for reelection in 2022.
As for their policies, voter suppression will definitely be on their side.
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Maybe I’m making things up in my brain, but I seem to remember that the Democrats once tried to hold some kind of hearing while in the minority and it so rattled the majority that the hearing was shut down when someone turned off the power to the room. Can’t find the magic search terms if it exists somewhere on the Internet.
In terms of compelling testimony, I’m pretty sure they don’t have any power if it isn’t granted by the full House and it wouldn’t be for anything run completely by the minority. So only friendly witnesses would be showing up (which would suit the GOP just fine).
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Well, in this case, those responsible for instigating the crime and those responsible for seeing that there was not enough.security at hand are most probably the same people.
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Yes, he is.
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Then this, is relatively on-topic–
Dr Anthony Fauci calling Rand Paul a liar during Congressional testimony.
About as close as Dr Fauci will come to telling Paul to get fucked:
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Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX), who became “Sheriff” Nehls during the press conference as law enforcement experience took on a greater cachet, indignantly pointed out that he had already made a binder in preparation for the hearings, waving it around inches from a wary McCarthy’s face.
It sounds like the only thing that could have topped the press conference is if McCarthy had actually been beaned by one of his stooges.
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Please excuse the gender-based metaphor, but Pelosi is one of the few Democrats with balls. She may be old and she may at times be autocratic, but oh man does she deal a great punch in the nose!
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“This meeting will come to order…Aaah-roooOOOOOOOOOOO ! ! !”
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Can the committee subpoena that binder?
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As best as I can figure out, it goes something like this:
Any distraction is better than a 100% focus on the events leading up to 1/6 and what happened on that day. So, let’s show lots of footage of the small-scale window breaking and store looting that happened late at night in some places after peaceful BLM protests. Scary black people! Violence! Nasty Antifa in Portland! It’s not just MAGA folk that get a little too excited sometimes.
Both-siderism at its best. Spend 80% of the time talking about BLM protests over the Summer and the other 20% saying the Capitol Police were underfunded and just couldn’t do their job, so it wasn’t the rioter’s fault.
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… stilleto-ed his balls off, put them in a jar of formaldehyde, and gifted it to Liz Cheney.
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I don’t know if there’s anything forbidding the committee from doing so, but I’m not sure how you would compel it to present itself before the committee, or even how a process server could establish that it recognized it had been served papers regarding such compulsion…
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It got old decades ago. Remember Ronnie and the Welfare Queens in Cadillacs? Newt raised the bar with his CSPAN diatribes to an empty House chamber.
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“That did not stop the phalanx of grim-faced men in ties from cursing the Speaker’s name Wednesday in their indignation…”
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Whole new series on AMC
Kevin Can F**k Himself
How timely!
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From the time that McCarthy nominated Jordan the outcome of this situation was pretty predictable. R’s don’t want to validate the committee, don’t want it to get any publicity, and would like to discredit it anyway they can. At minimum, they can feed some red meat to their base and give fuel for Fox to feed into their faux outrage machine.
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I think she might get reelected. The Cheney family name means something in that state. And she’s going to get primaried by a MAGA clown who might actually lose to a Dem in the general election. The voters in her state may not be completely stupid.
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Wait… You mean a Republican Speaker could one day offer to create a bipartisan commission with power sharing between the parties, only to be rejected by the Democrats?
That’s pretty frightening.
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. . . . and the Ass he rode in on!
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Read a review on this show. The ditzy daughter from Schitt’s Creek– Valerie Armstrong-- is playing the lead. An interesting spin on the age-old sitcom role of ‘the wife’. Where instead of that role being diminished whenever the wife leaves the static living room set-- she’s followed as the main character.
We loved Schitt’s Creek. Putting this on our watch list.
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