House Republicans formally denounced Rep. Adam B. Schiff this week. What they actually did is make an in-kind donation of his YUGE to the California Democratic Senate campaign.
This is just one example in recent days of Republican clownkers backfiring in the party’s bumbling efforts to weaponize the government against its political opponents. That very crime is unfairly projected onto the Democrats.
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Separately, Republicans argued in a House hearing that: Recent reports widely derided Tried to show Democratic bias at the origins of the government investigation, ultimately led by Robert S. Mueller III, into the Trump campaign’s 2016 pacification with Russia — a parallel, fact-based No, except in the Fox-leaning MAGA world—as a failure. operative.As expected, including Democrats SchiffConfronted with the fact that it failed to find the Deep State hoax and was not convicted, it turned to Special Counsel John Durham, a leading Republican witness, Trump Remainer and author of the report. Humiliated.
And in Episode 3, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Republican, Bakersfield) had to scramble It’s to stop one of the caucuse’s most incendiary troublemakers, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, from pushing through the House to impeach President Biden. The kontartan has mean showdown On the House floor, it took place between Mr. Boubert and Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Green of Georgia, the sponsor of a competing impeachment motion. (The term “catfight” is abhorrently sexist, but in the case of these right-wing rivals, if fur matches…)
All these events add up to a huge waste of time and money. The Durham investigation alone took him over four years. $6.5 million To the last “Crying” Indeed, the fight will satisfy former President Trump and provide red meat for party supporters as vengeful as he is. But Republican carnivores are doing nothing to promote positive policies for the country and expand the party’s appeal beyond bloodthirsty true believers.
This is the gist of what Mr. Schiff said in a fundraising email about his accusations. “These political smear tactics are diverting House resources from immediate priorities for Congress to address, and that’s what I want to address as a Senator.”
Were Republicans so blinded by President Trump’s flattery that they didn’t realize how many gifts they gave him by naming Schiff, who allegedly misled voters about Trump? It’s not just money Mr. Schiff is raising for his campaign against Democrats Katie Porter (Irvine) and Barbara Lee (Oakland) to replace Senator Diane Feinstein. By sacrificing Mr. Schiff, Republicans have honed the congressman’s once-invisible image and established him as one of the most effective anti-Trump figures in Congress.
To a man grounded in reality, this accusation was utterly ludicrous.of Resolution Schiff, the former head of the Democratic Party on the House Intelligence Committee and the head of impeachment for Trump, accused him of “spreading false accusations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.”
However, the accusation was not false. No matter how much Republicans smear the Mueller investigation, Trump Tower talks, sharing poll data, WikiLeaks, etc. or. Forget the semantic or legal arguments surrounding the word “collusion” and call it something else. The Trump campaign and Trump himself worked together to encourage and welcome any assistance from Russia. (“Russia, if you are listening ……”)
And how rich it is for McCarthy to cite Mr. Schiff’s allegations of “falsehood, misrepresentation and abuse of classified information” from the podium. You’d think he’d explain Trump’s 37 indictments for keeping and concealing hundreds of classified documents.
Next, speaking of false reports, there are the following. The Republican sponsor of this accusation was Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a freshman from Florida. Rep. George Santos’ School of Self-Creation, according to an in-depth study of her background by The Washington Post. (Speaking of Santos, why don’t Republicans condemn he with his lies admitted fraud?)
Luna accused Schiff of lying about Trump and “tearing American families across the country apart.” Did she follow the career of a former president?Have you read about his discord disrupting Thanksgiving dinners nationwide?Literally forgot about her family torn Are you at the border by his policy?
The Durham hearing should have been consistent with Schiff’s accusations. But no matter how hard they tried, Republicans on House committees could not escape the facts. There was no criminal activity in Durham by law enforcement or FBI officials (not to mention former President Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden). There is no Deep State conspiracy to win Trump, nothing prosecuted on the part of the Hillary Clinton campaign.
“I don’t really know what we’re doing here,” Ted Liu, a Democratic congressman from Torrance, once said mockingly.
It turns out that neither did the Republican Party. The House is like a circus under their (mis)control, and I can’t wait for the clowns to bring the half-baked impeachment resolution of Biden back onto the floor. If you want power as a weapon, you need facts, not popguns.
