The Jan. 6 Committee on Wednesday revealed another text from a Fox News host to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, sent in the wake of the deadly Capitol insurrection last year.
âItâs raising the ability for greater violence and weâve got to stop that and come together as one nation,â McCarthy told a Bakersfield, California news outlet days after the insurrection.
He then retreated to safety far up a tfg orifice and remained undiscovered until tfgâs colonoscopy in mid February 2021.
Kind of like the pot calling the kettle black. The ONE thing that would settle the crazies down is Fox, OANN and their ilk being put off-the-air and off-the-web permanently.
Many Republican spines have turned to jelly since their first pronouncements; the Rump factor
And then McCarthy went to Mar-a-grifto and got the heady smell of orange assâŚ
Laura Ingrate seems like one of those who may be more evil than stupid, though some combination of the two is certainly a possibility.
Typo fixed
Pretty sure the evil controls her.
Iâm beginning to think that Faux Noise is trying to be the propaganda arm of the previous administration.
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Get in the barrel, you botoxed bleached-blonde barracuda.
An insightful article in WAPO today explains it nicely. The piece reflects on the ongoing derp from GQP Senators toward DR Fauci but illustrates the bigger picture.
âŚthe trouble with congressional oversight of federal agencies and officials. As necessary and important as it is, itâs only as good as the people elected to Congress. Which includes the wise and the foolish, the serious and the buffoons.
Both parties have their share of each. But thereâs little question that incentives in the Republican Party push more powerfully in the direction of demagoguery, the creation of viral moments of confrontation, and the whipping up of enemies to feed the fantasies of the party base.
This is in large part a media story. There are those who trace the decline of Congress to the moment C-SPAN went online in 1979; it showed Americans what went on in the government they elected, but it also meant that entrepreneurs of anger like Newt Gingrich could use it to create moments of dramatic demagoguery sure to be replayed on other news outlets.
C-SPAN is part national treasure and part soundbite repository, which means that it can be used for good or ill. Combine it with cable TV networks with far too much airtime than they can fill with genuine substance, and you create the incentive for every congressional hearing to be turned into a shoutfest, as members know a moment of conflict is more likely to get on the news.
And cable news is particularly important for Republicans, because Fox plays such a central role in their political universe. A Democratic senator can decide not to care about what happens on MSNBC and have a perfectly fruitful career, but her Republican colleague knows he can be made or broken by Fox. His constituents, furthermore, are particularly interested in whether their representatives are doing a good enough job Owning the Libs.
Which brings us back to Sen. Marshall. Why is he so interested in insinuating that âshenanigansâ (his word) might be going on with Fauciâs financial disclosures? Perhaps because he knows the right-wing media universe is full of bogus conspiracy theories about Fauci having a financial interest in vaccines or otherwise reaping a fortune from the pandemic.
To be clear, some Republicans are less dependent on the outrage cycle and therefore more likely to use congressional hearings to ask reasonable questions and attempt to clarify important issues. At Tuesdayâs hearing, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) managed to discuss the pandemic with Fauci in a respectful manner. But the whole episode is a reminder that we get the oversight we elect.
And if Republicans take back Congress in the fall, theyâll not only be on the committees, theyâll be determining the agenda. Which means things could get even dumber.
An inane squabble with Dr. Fauci shows the problem with congressional oversight
See above.
Eva Braunoser.
To the article writer*: Name some Democrats. Go ahead, take your time.
*Added later for clarification. Apologies to @sooner.
First ⌠please note that I did not say this, the author did so.
Thank You.
Second ⌠Manchin and Sinema are still calling themselves Democrats arenât they?
Once againâŚThank you.
Itâd be nice if we could get cable news to put a moratorium on naming (and showing) these shoutfests. If they just reported âA Republican committee member shouted over the response to the question they asked of the witness during the House Health Oversight committee hearing todayâŚâ that might tamp down on the interest in doing it.
Of course, the aforementioned FOX problem would guarantee it still got âfull-throatedâ coverage on the Right.
First. I know that too. It wasnât aimed at you.
Second. I canât remember either Manchin or Sinema acting like jerks on the senate floor or in hearings. Yes, they are jerks in other ways outside.
Third. I hate bothsidesism.
Youâre welcome.
She was just looking to see if Qevin was really hiding up there.
I sure hope sheâs using Right GuardâŚ
I know better, but itâs weird that âJimmy Olsenâsâ (Tucker) 1/6 texts havenât come out yet.
Same for Harris Faulkner.
