A top Biden lawyer said the White House will not respond to records requests made by Republican congressmen before they take control of the House in 2023, according to multiple letters obtained by Politico.
Trying to start the clock early.
Premature ejaculation, Gymbo.
My head already hurts…
Transl: “Get that weak shit outta here, Gym.”
Wouldn’t it be awesome if every time Gym Shorts Jordan asks a question the witness responds with a comment about the abuse of athletes at Ohio State while he was an assistant wrestling coach. Is it petty? Yes, but count me as DONE with Gooper posturing about “morality” and “ethics”.
Petty and dumb. Very on-brand for Republicans.
In my view, the White House should respond to congressional “records request” from Jim Jordan exactly the same way Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy responded to congressional subpoenas.
As recent years have set a precedent that White House records, documents, and staffers testimony can’t be compelled by congress, the Biden administration’s response should be a gigantic “fuck you” to these “illegitimate” requests from congress. That’s how it worked for the last administration. Slow walk even requests for the date and time through the courts as Mango Mussolini so graciously showed the country how to do.
“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” Sauber wrote in a letter.
Learn the rules you f’ing idiots.
“I was the most transparent, and am, transparent President in history.” - DJT
With that as the benchmark, and with all due respect to Messrs. Comer and Jordan, go fuck yourselves. (h/t Dick Cheney)
I have no doubt the Media Whores will be tsk-tsking the Biden Administration for not complying within 5 minutes of the first stupid demand from these rotten sonsofbitches.
“Should the Committee issue similar or other requests in the 118th Congress, we will review and respond to them in good faith, consistent with the needs and obligations of both branches,” Sauber wrote.
I think this means they will vigorously defend and protect their executive privilege. That means the courts will need to get involved and that’ll significantly run down the clock. If it’s a strategy good enough for Trump, it’s good enough for Biden as well.
That was too nice, and they should have ignored the little men from Ohio and Kentucky.
This ^^^
The Repuglicans have made it clear they will accuse the Biden administration of everything from lack of transparency to collusion with dead Venezuelan dictators so there is nothing to be lost by making them work a little harder for their chicken feed.
ETA: to say nothing of keeping cabinet leadership productive by avoiding time wasted attempting to address Repuglican MAGA-fantasies instead of conducting the nation’s business in one of most effective administrations in the past half century.
The White House should pay as much attention to their requests as they did to the J6 committee’s subpoenas.
Goes around, comes around.
Comer said in a statement. “The White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking for the American people on important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling.
Biden family’s influence peddling? Well, it’s a good thing Comer apparently knows this to be a fact. So I guess he doesn’t have a need for any records then.
Gym and Qevin really need to GFT.
Repeatedly, but I suspect they would enjoy it.
They will go straight to the Supreme Court which, consistent with its policy to ignore inconvenient precedent, will rule that Congress has the constitutional power to imprison anybody who doesn’t comply.