Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) was made to eat his own (old) words on Monday.
During a House hearing on Republicans’ baseless bid to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) brought up an op-ed titled, “Americans are The Victims of The Impeachment Inquiry.”
The subtitle was, “A lot of bipartisan legislation that enjoys widespread support sits gathering dust while Congress focuses on the impeachment inquiry.’”
Neguse asked Homeland Security Committee chair Green if he disagreed with the premise of the title and subtitle. “I do,” Green responded.
Green’s answer was “interesting,” replied Neguse, because “these are your words” in “an editorial that you wrote five years ago during the debate about the impeachment of former President Trump.”
“It’s fascinating to me that you changed your tune,” he added.
Green indeed penned the piece for The Tennessean in Nov. 2019.
“While we focus on impeachment, we are failing to address the real issues facing the American people. Americans are the ones losing out,” he wrote at the time.”
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
The rationalizations are both impressive and disgusting.
I didn’t read it all, but the religious right has voted against all manner of morality, ethics and their own christianity in support of some weird single issue attacks on abortion rights, science and public schools.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
He's also opposed the impeachment of Biden, which makes this DOA demand for the 25thA friggin' bizarre.
As Republicans against Trump says, "I really thought he was better than this..."
Here's the full post:
Republicans against Trump
NEW
GOP Rep. Ken Buck introduced a resolution that calls on the Cabinet to remove President Biden, using the 25th Amendment, citing his mental and physical health:
"The Hur report officially addressed what many Americans have long witnessed with their own eyes — that President Biden is no longer fit to successfully discharge the critical duties of his office...Numerous instances were articulated in the report, and have played out in full public view, showing President Biden’s apparent cognitive decline and lack of mental stamina.”
I really thought he was better than this...
So did I.
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
I didn’t read it all, but the religious right has voted against all manner of morality, ethics and their own christianity in support of some weird single issue attacks on abortion rights, science and public schools.
Hateful RWers are also uber-gullible and easy to manipulate:
Backers of an effort to oust Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos from office over his opposition to former President Donald Trump announced Sunday that they’ve collected enough signatures to force a recall vote....
The recall effort targeting him highlights continued frustration among Trump’s supporters in battleground Wisconsin over his loss in the 2020 election and how Vos responded to it. That includes how Vos refused attempts from Trump and his supporters to decertify Biden’s win and how he didn’t move forward with impeaching Wisconsin’s top elections official.
Trump narrowly won Wisconsin in 2016 but lost to President Joe Biden by a similar margin of about 21,000 votes in 2020. The result has withstood two partial recounts, numerous lawsuits, an independent audit and a review by a conservative law firm....
First elected in 2004, Vos is the longest-serving Assembly speaker in state history, holding the post since 2013.
A guess: Whoever prevails the conflict bodes well for Dems in Nov.
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
Donald Trump apparently now has a hype man for his sketchy golf claims.
Brian Jack ― a former Trump adviser who’s running to represent a Georgia district in the House of Representatives, with Trump’s blessing ― told a highly suspect anecdote about his onetime boss on the links.
“I’m not sure if I should say this,” Jack told a Trump rally in Rome, Georgia, on Saturday. “But just a few weeks ago, President Trump put to shame two professional golfers. I ain’t gonna mention their names, but just know he shot a 70 on 18 holes.”
... One skeptic wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that Jack’s tale had the “same vibes” as a North Korean media report that the late Kim Jong Il made 11 holes-in-one during the first round of golf he ever played. (A more modest report said five holes-in-one.)
This book sounds like a scream. I may have to buy/borrow a copy:
Someone else on X pointed to “Commander in Cheat,” Rick Reilly’s 2019 book devoted to Trump’s golf antics. Trump allegedly pulled a fast one even when he played with Tiger Woods, according to Reilly.
“Trump doesn’t just cheat at golf. He cheats like a three-card Monte dealer,” Reilly wrote. “He throws it, boots it, and moves it. He lies about his lies. He fudges and foozles and fluffs. At Winged Foot, where Trump is a member, the caddies got so used to seeing him kick his ball back onto the fairway they came up with a nickname for him: ‘Pele.’”
Trump even claimed to have won a golf tournament he didn’t actually play in.
But Trump’s love of the game is indisputable. As president, he played at least 289 times on his own properties alone. Taxpayers footed the $151.5 million travel and security bills, according to a HuffPost analysis in 2021.
Check out replies from commenters on X who didn’t buy Jack’s tee tale:
When you lie... it should be at least within the realm of believability.
MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin asked authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat to explain why Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are “going out of their way to kiss the ring” of Donald Trump with their endorsements of the former president in the 2024 election....
“That’s actually the saddest thing about this, is that in many regimes, if you criticize the leader even if he’s no longer in office, you go to jail or you’re shot,” Ben-Ghiat replied.
In the GOP, however, it is loss of office or reputations that are at stake, she said.
.... Elsewhere in the interview, Ben-Ghiat said Trump’s ability to play the victim “does not get enough attention in that it makes his followers feel protective of him.” “Anything else that happens to him is just confirmation of this belief that he is a victim being persecuted,” she said.
Great point, and sad for America.
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
Moskowitz should have arranged with another Dem to second his motion to impeach. The deafening GQP silence was good, but getting them on record one way or the other would have been better.
... Video from the event showed several protesters in black T-shirts in attendance. One of them stood up and questioned Rittenhouse about Charlie Kirk, the far-right conservative activist whose youth organization, Turning Point U.S.A., sponsored Rittenhouse’s appearance.
When the protester alleged that Kirk has “said a lot of racist things,” Rittenhouse immediately grew defensive.
“Like what? What racist things has Charlie Kirk said?” he fired back from the podium. “We’re gonna have a bit of a dialogue of what racist things Charlie Kirk said.”
The protester was unfazed.
“He says that we shouldn’t celebrate Juneteenth, we shouldn’t celebrate Martin Luther King Day—we should be working those days. He called Ketanji Brown Jackson an affirmative action hire, he said all this nonsense about George Floyd, and he said he’d be scared if a Black pilot was on a plane. Does that not seem racist?”
“I don’t know anything about that,” Rittenhouse said, prompting jeers from the room.
“After all the things I just told you, would you consider that hate speech?” the protester asked.
“I’m not gonna comment on that,” Rittenhouse answered, as the room once again erupted in boos. Rittenhouse waited on stage for a beat, but stormed off after he was approached by one of the event’s organizers. He did not look back or make any other comments as he left the stage....
That questioner was PREPARED and he got national attention trashing true evil, Charlie Kirk. Rittenhouse is just a stooge and a clown.
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
UM probably doesn't care.
Legally, there is no such thing as "viewpoint discrimination". Opponents have 1A rights, too, and Kyle was treated pretty gently.
Love the snowflake emojis!
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
UM probably doesn't care.
Legally, there is no such thing as "viewpoint discrimination". Opponents have 1A rights, too, and Kyle was treated pretty gently.
Love the snowflake emojis!
I'm sure they don't care, it's the unmitigated chutzpah that got me.
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
Long time GQP activist and dedicated MAGAt. "Presler co-founded the LGBTQ coalition Gays for Trump" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Presler
They're made for each other. Not sure about the "defended an accused child molestor" part. It might be buried somewhere in the Wiki page.
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
This book sounds like a scream. I may have to buy/borrow a copy:
